Excerpt From Blog Post:In lieu of a regular extensive Friday Afternoon Roundup, I'll just offer some quick links to people who are doing it better on the major story of the last two days. The Fort Hood attacks.
First up is Andrew Bostom who looks at the martyrdom of Nidal Malik Hassan
And the contemporary advocacy of such “martyrdom” operations by Islam’s most esteemed mainstream clerics is what ultimately gives legitimacy to the mass murderous actions of pious Muslims such as Nidal Malik Hassan. This is the unspoken, but irrefragable truth our craven “elites” in the military, government, and media must be forced to acknowledge, and confront.
Indeed, which is any war that fails to acknowledge the ideological basis for terrorism in those fatwas is as futile as fighting Communism while avoiding saying anything bad about Lenin.
Next Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch has a...