The Results of America’s Lobotomy are In

…and they don’t look good.

Yesterday’s mass murder at Fort Hood was a terrorist attack, period. I knew it the second I heard the murderer’s name, and although you may not like it, so did you. When I read that the terrorist screamed “Allahu Akbar,” before firing the first of about 100 rounds into his colleagues, there was no question.

But for some god-forsaken reason the military and law enforcement “investigators” still can’t quite wrap their brains around what Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s motive was for killing 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 30 more. It’s because a peice of their brain is missing. I can’t say exactly when the lobotomy procedure began, but by now the whole chunk of the brain that was once used for judgment and critical analysis is gone. Instead of seeing Hasan’s actions over the last few years as a threat, and reason for dismissal from the military, the FBI and US Army sat back and waited until something more concrete happened. It was too late. It will be too late again if Americans keep living in self-imposed ignorance.

Our President said not to “jump to conclusions” about the attack yesterday, because our President is a coward. It’s a problem the whole Western World is dealing with today, too many cowards and too few heroes (except for the brave Men and Women in our military, of course). Instead of jumping to the obvious conclusion that Hasan’s act was a premeditated jihadist terror attack, Westerners jump to protect the “Muslim people.” Now, it sickens me to have to say this every time, but most Muslims are just like the rest of us, no better and no worse. But Muslim jihadists are the ones waging war against America and the West while non-jihadist Muslims really have nothing to fear from us. Mark Steyn captures the West’s self-imposed ignorance perfectly, today at The Corner:

Even if you are concerned that it would be terribly unfair if all Muslims were to be tarred by Major Hasan’s brush, it is, to put it at its mildest, the grossest bad taste to default every single time within minutes to the position that what’s of most interest about an actual actrocity with real victims is that it may provoke an entirely hypothetical atrocity with entirely hypothetical victims.

This terrorist-as-victim mentality was on display this Wednesday when David Horowitz spoke at USC. I had the pleasure of both listening to Horowitz’s lecture and video-taping the “unholy alliance” of protestors both inside and outside of the auditorium. While Horowitz spoke about the danger radical Islam poses to the world, the Students for Justice in Palestine and the International Socialist Organization chanted “this is our campus,” and gave speeches to each-other in a circle declaring that Horowitz and the College Republicans should be afraid to walk around campus. Their threats are less benign than even they may know. It just takes one radical willing to take his “activism” to the next level, and an act of protest can become a tragedy.

I’ll be called a racist and Islamophobe for writing this piece. But I, like many others, am used to it. The problem is the day you stop hearing the holier-than-thou granola munching crowd’s insults because one of their cohorts blew himself up while you were waiting for your latte at Starbucks. As Horowitz notes in a blog post about Fort Hood today, “the embargo of discussion of the islamo-fascist threat puts every American at risk.“