I think, with all of the "interviews" on the news, and with all of Islam jihad stereotyping aside, just the fact that the man specialized in PTSD, and heard horror stories day in and day out of likely very classified information about rape and torture and murder and death and destruction, after working at Walter Reed surrounded by some of the worst burn victims, with the most terrifying accounts of what's going on over there - to be told that now YOU'RE next to go over to this inevitable ****, AND knowing that you will LIKELY be prosecuted against by your OWN brothers in arms based on your ethnicity while you're over there (not even necessarily because of religion) speaks volumes about what we expect our military members to be capable of, and the truth in frailty of the human psyche. I think that sentiment alone is enough to break someone down to insanity - and that's how I'm viewing what's happened. I don't think it has nearly as much to do with Islam as it has to do with him being so well versed on the reality of what's going on over there, and just being terrified of it happening to himself.
And I certainly think it is disgraceful with all of the anti-Islam fears still stewing under the surface in America - that some of the choice news stations immediately chose to follow the Ft. Hood story with those pigs outside the mosque in New York spewing hate speech as if there's any real proven connection between the two - especially since they've been doing it for a LONG time, it's not any new recent development. It's just sick and disgusting, and it definitely does not help out the innocent, warm, loving, caring Muslims we do have here that are just as much an American as everyone else. Sad and irresponsible.
I just wish more people were willing to look at the situation through a more culturally aware lens instead of such an ethnocentric one.
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