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Kimberly Munley is the civilian police officer who stopped the carnage yesterday at Ft. Hood, racing to the scene and engaging Hasan, disabling him and ending up wounded herself. Early reports were that she was also dead at the scene, but happily, this mother of one two is recovering. Incidentally conspiracy theorists on the left have all kinds of unlikely sneaky reasons why the shooter was first reported dead, but none of them mention that Munley was, too. The real cause of the confused and contradictory reports really needn't have been anything more sinister than the sort of chaos that always accompanies terrorist attacks.
Every time something like this happens, we all hear warnings about backlash against peaceful Muslims and how awful America is for this backlash (because, while Islam has not responsibility for all the many acts of violence committed in its name, all Americans bear the shame and guilt of the Coming Backlash). Except, says Jay Tea:
One minor problem with that: there's never been a real backlash against Muslims in America.
When Muslims acting in the name of Allah tried to blow up the World Trade Center, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah shot up the El Al ticket counter at LAX, there was no massive backlash.
When two Muslims acting in the name of Allah went on a sniping spree in and around DC, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah drove his SUV through the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah ran down people all over San Francisco, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah shot up the Seattle Jewish Federation, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah shot seven people atop the Empire State Building, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah shot up a movie theatre in Baltimore, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah shot up a van filled with Orthodox Jews, there was no massive backlash.
When a Muslim acting in the name of Allah killed five people in a mall in Salt Lake City, there was no massive backlash.
And when Muslims acting in the name of Allah killed over 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, there certainly was no massive backlash whatsoever.
The media has downplayed his religion, which they would not have done if he were Christian, and if the guy had been known to be a listener to conservative talk radio or a watcher of Glenn Beck on Fox News, then we all know that these guys would have been blamed. Those that did mention it mainly did so to warn their ignorant viewers against jumping to conclusions, although the media itself was quick to jump to conclusions about the murderous tendencies of military members and to bring up the spector of post-traumatic stress disorder even though the Major had never been deployed or in an dangerous job. Most of the lefty blogs I read and their commenters were also not the least bit interesting in 'waiting' to jump to nasty conclusions about the military and those who serve, assuming the worse about just about everybody in uniform except the known murderer.
In fact, it's very possible, based on the news so far, that an intense effort to be politically correct and avoid anything that smacks of 'backlash' may be what allowed a Muslim Psychiatrist in the army to be vocal in his opposition of the war and his support of suicide bombings as actually being noble efforts to save lives rather than the murderous attacks and yes, suicide, self-killing (something Islam condemns and which radical Mullahs contort themselves to excuse when the suicide brings a lot of blood, gore, and human lives along with him) acts they are.
Btw, if you read WND, you may wish to read this article correcting an assertion they made about Hasan's supposed connection with Homeland Security- there really isnt' much of one.
