I would like to know why this topic couldn't have been parked for a couple of days?

There are still victims dying of their wounds. It just seems to me a little early to let the agenda merchants off their leashes.

Perhaps there might be an excuse for carthartic reasons if this was an American forum but it isn't.

Showing a little respect shouldn't be that difficult.

Thank you GY I would have thought no one would wish to comment on that first post.
But thanks for the freedom.
And for highlighting, some have ideas that mirror this thread's.
Who bullied who? on what evidence?
How do we know he is Muslim? his name does not tell us anything.
Arjay truly you need a reality check.
Murder, gutless murder of unarmed people is always evil.
Lies are weapons in the hands of both sides in the east and middle east.
And consider the unbalanced comments of most who posted so far and see evidence, see why we can not live in peace.
Lies bigotry, are currency for many.
Balance truth understanding seem only to come in the rear mirror for far too many, after time has shown the truth.
Post what you wish when you wish, but please hold yourself accountable for what you say.

Belly wrote:

How do we know he [Hasan] is Muslim?

The fact that he reportedly shouted "Allahu Akhbar" could be a bit of a giveaway.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/fort-hood-shooting-suspect-alive

I repeat what I wrote in my first post on this thread. Tragic as this event is, it is isolated. By itself it tells us little about Muslims. As every one here knows, I am the very last person who could be called an apologist for Islam.

Note that Jason Rodriguez is not a Muslim.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602294.html

Belly, sometimes people just go off the rails.

OK Nothing to do with being a muslim, so hope when he recovers he does not blame non-muslims.

unbelievable that the left could be such denialist. When Sharia law starts to affect their kids they might finally wake up to themselves. How quickly they are to swallow the fantasy of man made gw and so slow to see the results of what they call tolerance (which of course leads to the intolerable).

StevenMeyer you are right
'By itself it tells us little about Muslims'

The fact is that it is not in itself. Look at Bali, London, Madrid, France, Spain, Sydney and you might get some idea of the ideology that drives these followere of Mohamed.

Dear runner,

The history of mankind tells a more
accurate story than the one you
present by picking only on one
particular group of fundamentalists.

The first weapons were rocks, clubs,
spears, and swords, wielded or thrown by
human beings. Gradually, ways were found to
strike further, more accurately, and with
greater force - with slings, catapults,
bows and arrows, crossbows. The invention
of gunpowder and similar explosives led to
musket, the rifle, the cannon, the grenade,
the bomb. These weapons were mounted on land
vehicles, ships, and eventually aircraft.

Today missiles can travel thousands of miles
from one continent to another and deliver their
warheads with an accuracy that can be measured
in feet and seconds.

One effect of innovations in military technology
is to make the killing of human beings - even
mass killing, impersonal. A few centuries ago,
war meant soldiers physically attacking one another.
Today, a handful of people can obliterate a city
of millions, thousands of miles away by deciding
to push a button.

over the past quarter century, global spending
for military purposes has consumed an estimated
$14 trillion (that is, $14,000,000,000,000).
This represents a colossal diversion of funds from
socially useful goals: for example, a single
hour's worth of these expenditures would suffice to
save through immunization, the 120,000 children around
the world who die each day from preventable diseases.

Before you condemn what fundamentalists of other faiths
do or don't do - look at the history of mankind and
see that none of us is really innocent in this "blame
game."