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What pose? The multi-culti affectation that prevents cocktail-party progressives (a group that includes 90% of westen journalists) from dealing seriously with the blindingly obvious reality that Muslim extemists want to kill us simply because we reside in the Dar ul-Harb.

Despite Nidal Hasan’s grisly demonstration of this reality, the various “news” media are once again pretending (as they did in the case of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, et al) that the Major’s newfound religion was not the motivating factor in this atrocity:

The Fort Hood attack is the third instance this year in which American military personnel in the United States have been targeted by people reportedly opposed to U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism experts said.

Such attacks are, in other words, just a kind of war protest on steroids. That these creeps invariably shout “Allahu Akbar” before committing their multiple murders is irrelevant. What the poseurs of the Press affect to be concerned about is the plight of American Muslims:

You can instantly see how the Malkins will spin this, and how a war on American Muslims can get jump-started … rendering a minority suspect and further undermining the chances of a multi-faith democracy.

But Islamists aren’t interested in a “multi-faith democracy,” or any other fantasy conjured by the pseudo-intellectuals at the cappuccino bar. They want to drag the benighted denizens of the Dar ul-Harb into the light of Dar ul-Islam. Failing that, they want us dead.

There are two kinds of jihad: the greater and the lesser. The latter is the battle against the infidels (that would be us), and the Islamists see their murders as a legitimate exercise of that religious tenet. So, why won’t western journalists report this honestly? Steyn thinks it’s a sickness:

This kind of media coverage is really a form of mental illness far more advanced than whatever Major Hasan’s lawyers eventually enter in mitigation, and apparently pandemic, at least among the western media.

I guess an affectation that evolves into a death wish would constitute a kind of psychosis. But I don’t think it’s that. These people believe their multi-culti pose inoculates them against the ill effects of Islamism, and that preserving their place on the cocktail-party circuit is far more important than telling the truth.

Meanwhile, many people actually depend on establishment organs like CNN, the Washington Post, NPR, etc. for their information about the world. These people have no real understanding of the threat posed by jihadis like Hasan. Why? Because such ”news” organizations are run by politically correct poseurs.

UPDATE I:

While American journalists do their best to deny the obvious, some English newspapers have decided to do their jobs. The Telegraph, via Hot Air, has been doing some actual reporting. And  the news is pretty disturbing for those of us still grounded in reality:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a ’spiritual adviser’ to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

Hmm … Kinda hard to fit this inconvenient fact into the idiotic narrative emanating from the posers at Newsweek, who tell us that this is all about an “overtaxed” military that has been stretched to the breaking point:

The situation is bad, and getting much worse …It isn’t much of a leap to argue that to further tax our military would do as much as anything to guarantee that the homegrown terror on display today could well repeat itself in the future.

What crap. The Hasan atrocity had nothing to do with overtaxing the military. This creep never saw a second of combat. He was a jihadi, plain and simple. This “overtaxed miltary” BS, by the way, will almost certainly be the excuse the President gives when he finally wimps out and refuses to send reinforcements to Afghanistan.

UPDATE II:

Riehl has a post showing that this deadly strain of political correctitude infects not merely the “news” media but the military as well. Hasan was so brazen about his views that he was bullet-pointing them in his presentations, yet no one did anything about it. Scary.