Ft. Hood Massacre: Mass murderer vs. Terrorist vs. “American Muslim”

Michael Yaki
SF Chronicle
Friday, Nov 6th, 2009

The shocking, bloody, ambush of unarmed soldiers and innocent civilians, allegedly by Army Major Nidal Hasan is yet another horrific chapter in our nation’s history of mass murders. But it is how that chapter is currentely being written by the media that has immense implications for who and what we are as a nation.

Once the name of the protagonist was established, the blogs lit up and the talking heads immediately turned to the “terrorist” word. Anderson Cooper repeatedly referred to Hasan as an “American Muslim.” I somehow don’t see Cooper referring to the Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as “American Protestants.” Yet, front and center, the media began their speculation on whether Hasan was a “recent convert” to Islam, what websites he visited, and whether “outside influences” — code words for Imams and terrorist recruiters — had compelled him to walk onto the base and begin his shooting rampage. Indeed, the media was playing {and replaying} up the fact that he was shown wearing “traditional” Arab garb earlier in the day as he bought some coffee, although other footage from the day before showed him wearing hospital scrubs — which thus far has never made the endless loop on CNN.

When we — and by that I mean the American people and the press — were previously exposed to reports of mass killings by a single individual or a small group of individuals, the individuals responsible were denominated as mass murderers. Their intent may have included a desire to terrorize their potential victims, to unsettle and create upheaval in communities, but they were still referred to as garden-variety mass murderers. Charles Whitman, the psychopath who killed 14 and wounded 32 from the tower in the University of Texas in 1966, was a mass murderer. George Jo Kennard, who drove his pickup into a Luby’s restaurant in Killeen, Texas {sadly and ironically, close to Ford Hood} and killed 23 was a mass murderer. Most recently, we were glued to the television sets by the tragedy at Virginia Tech, where Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 students and faculty. He, too, was pronounced a mass murderer.

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This article was posted: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:08 am

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