| | One has some questions not being raised in the press about the psychiatrist who killed at fort Hood.
These questions won't be asked, because they are too sensitive in our"PC" world, so don't get excited when I say the unspeakable.
Indeed, that is why I'm posting it here instead of my BNN blog, at least for now: Because only a cop or a doc would wonder about these things, and even they might not be so un PC to say it out loud.
One: He was a second generation from a Palestinian family.
Most Palestinians who emigrate are Christians who fled persecution by both sides. Indeed, most Arabs in the US are Christians for this reason (although most of them are Lebanese).
Was he a convert, as first reports suggested?
This does not exclude "Jihad": after all, the first Jihadi killer in the US was a Christian: Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Bobby Kennedy.
Two: He had reports saying he didn't get along with patients. These reports go way back into medical school.
I've worked with religiously strict physicians who were so uptight they didn't get along with patients (usually I worked black or Native americans, and of course if you work in the emergency room most of those you saw were intoxicated.)
Now, most Muslim docs got along fine with our patients but I've seen a few who, if they were white Christian fundamentalists, would fit into the KKK because they would see a black or Native American face and treat them like dirt.
Yet from reports, this is a psychiatrist who chose to work with addiction. Strict Muslims don't drink, and are prejudiced against those who do....Something wrong here.
As for comments that he had been ridiculed for his religion: Yup. If you work with drunks and addicts, they will call you names. I even got a window shot out at one point. Nothing personal. They were projecting their rage at the nearest target.
The main question is: why didn't a psychiatrist recognize this? And why didn't he have insight into his own rage?
The military put him through school, and one wonders why he chose psychiatry and not Medicine or surgery.
In my medical school, half the guys who chose Psychiatry did so because they weren't very good at working with sick people, or were bad in science, or were active in politics.... and others chose it to help them get an insight into their own psyche (Psychiatrists have the highest suicide rate in medicine for example).
Yes, some chose psychiatry because they wanted to help the mentally ill, but it makes one wonder why a person who had trouble with patients chose psychiatry and then chose to work with addicts, the most frustrating aspect of medicine, and one where a strict Muslim might not have a lot of empathy for the patients.
Three: I was once suspended after a nurse accused me of making "terroristic threats". She was absent on her usual prolonged coffee break, leaving me with three patients who needed dressings etc. I mumbled I'd kill her when I found her, and the nurse, who we couldn't fire because she knew every trick in the book to stop complaints, reported me. Never mind that I was a woman, an ex missionary, and in the National Guard had a waiver not to carry a handgun and had only shot rifles a few times (I did "own" my husband's handgun: Because I bought it for him, I had to register it in my name).
I know it was done to "prove" they didn't profile "threats". The irony was that they didn't suspend me right away: They waited until the clinic was quiet and could afford to be minus one doctor. Everyone knew it was a crock of caca, but the regulations were followed, so it didn't matter (I would have quit right then, but was scheduled to retire in six months so stuck it out).
But here is a "muslim" who was defending jihadis and fighting with patients about the war, and known to the FBI, but no one intervened.
That suggests negative profiling.
Four: He was "quiet" and didn't show anger, according to one report. But then there were reports of his outbursts. This suggests passive agression, or that he "went amok" (something we see here in the easy going Philippines, when a quiet guy just goes nuts and machetes folks).
And no one saw it coming?
Five. He attended mosque every day. I suggest someone find out if they were preaching anti American pro jihadi propaganda at the mosque...and I suspect the mosque in Silver Springs MD not the one in Texas.
Most Muslims in the US are not radical, but the real danger is the Saudi extremist religion being pushed into mosques all over the world.
From Ralph Peters:
. Al Qaeda was merely the instrument of 9/11. Saudi bigotry, fanaticism and hate-mongering fostered it. Saudi funding made those attacks possible. And Saudi money continues to spread hatred wherever there's a Muslim community. Now we have a president who bows to the Saudi king. Peace be upon you . Six: He was unmarried.
Hmmm....ultra religious man... passive aggressive...in the Army Medical Corps...
All three of those things suggest he was a closeted gay. (Randy Shilts once described an Army hospital where the flirting resembled a gay bar...but in the "don't ask don't tell" days, no one wants to bring up all those gay male nurses any more than one wants to bring up lesbians with guns).
Gays who have conflicts often chose places with strict rules to help them hold in their "evil" impulses: Which is why so many fled to monasteries and the priesthood, and then came out of the closet when the sexual revolution occurred.
A closeted gay working in a hospital however would be like a gay in some monasteries: constant temptation, and a gay subculture.
It would be interesting to hit the gay bars in Silver Springs and find out who knew the guy, and if he was sending off signals either negative or positive to his gay collegues...but with "don't ask don't tell", I doubt anyone will talk to a reporter.
Another hint that he might be a closeted gay is that no woman would have him.
Well, he could just be a nerd...or highly dedicated to his profession...but even nerdy docs usually have nurses or secretaries who seduce them for their annual income.
But then we read this:
"He wanted a wife more religious than him," Faizul Khan told the Daily News. "She had to pray five times a day. She had to wear the hajib. He was a young, good looking guy and a physician but he couldn't find anybody." Hmm...wants a perfect "woman", not a real one...male chauvenist pig, or just one who wants a show wife, not a human being?
Even if he was not gay, he had some major sexual conflicts going on.
So maybe someone should talk to the female nurses and secretaries who worked with him, and see how he interacted with them, either negatively or positively....
So there you have it. A guy full of rage against the world, but whose rage might have been from family rejection or from self loathing because of his sexual conflicts.
Mix with a Saudi propaganda machine in the mosques, and propaganda machines from the radicals in the middle east that will stoke his paranoia, and voila, instant "amok".
notice I didn't say anything about the war? Well, it was because he never went to the war...
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