A HUGE FORT HOOD ROUNDUP from Ed Driscoll.
CAIR says don’t blame Muslims. Well, this report from the Daily Mail raises issues, but let’s stay tuned and see how things shake out once they’ve settled down.
UPDATE: This sounds troubling:
Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.
One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.
“To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.”
Maybe CAIR had some idea of this already?
ANOTHER UPDATE: “Deep Roots.” Fabius Maximus is not buying the Muslim angle.
MORE: A.P. says he’s not dead.
STILL MORE: Tim Blair: Information Learned, Concealed.
AND MORE STILL: Fabius Maximus writes that the post above was not about not buying the Muslim angle as I stated. “These were obviously not causes of this event. They were not even causes; they were other events. Showing that we’re having a broader problem. I don’t seen how your interpretation is a valid one.” Sorry. It looked that way to me, given that it responded to the Fort Hood event with a litany of “troop stress” issues without addressing the Islamist angle, which is why I read it that way. But see his later post on “Sudden Jihad Syndrome.”