{"id":3203,"date":"2009-11-06T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2009-11-06T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T00:27:54","slug":"fort-hood-and-the-islamist-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/fort-hood-and-the-islamist-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood and the Islamist threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fort Hood shootings are a horrific tragedy, one for which all Americans mourn.\u00a0 Even if the right\u2019s assumption that Nidal Malik Hasan was primarily motivated by Islamist ideology proves correct, however, it\u2019s going to take a lot more such slaughters on American soil for me to feel at elevated risk of injury or death from deranged Muslims, as opposed to from other homicidal maniacs <\/a>such as the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University shooters, or from garden-variety black criminals<\/a>, or from a car crash. So far, the number of attacks by Muslims in this country is low\u00a0 (though of course Muslim representation in the population is also quite low, so perhaps on a per capita basis American Muslims engage in slaughter at a higher rate than other groups, but I tend to doubt it.\u00a0 The three thousand victims of 9\/11 is a stupefying loss, but that vicious and cataclysmic blow is looking more and more like a highly rare event).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The right rejects singling out hate crimes for separate treatment.\u00a0 Yet it regards violence inspired in whole or part by Islamic resentment of the West as a far greater threat than other types of violence.\u00a0 The right\u2019s fervent reaction to Islamic crime may well be a valid position: when there is ideology behind an attack, in theory that ideology can quickly breed other attacks (though the number of even remotely Islamic-related killings on U.S. soil is miniscule compared to the routine tit-for-tat chain killings by inner-city gangs).\u00a0 But then the \u201cIslamic violence is different\u201d reasoning would seem to cover hate crimes as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fort Hood shootings are a horrific tragedy, one for which all Americans mourn.\u00a0 Even if the right\u2019s assumption that Nidal Malik Hasan was primarily motivated by Islamist ideology proves correct, however, it\u2019s going to take a lot more such … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[386,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}