(hat tip V)
BLAMING THE TARGETS
IBID, CANADA
Islamic ideology and Palestinian Arab background
Completely ignoring his Islamic ideology and Palestinian Arab background, the media speculated that he might have been suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, even though he had never served in a combat zone, that he was angry over being deployed to Iraq, even though he had a history of pro-terrorist postings predating that,
and finally that he had been bullied by other soldiers for being a Muslim, a claim that has since emerged as completely baseless.
All of these however were ways of shifting the blame from Nidal Hassan and his Islamist ideology, and onto his victims, the men and women he had tried to kill, and the United States Army itself.
Once again the media apparatchiks had decided that blame for a Muslim killing spree rested not with the perpetrator, but with his targets.
