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When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not going to happen.
Hasan should have been weeded out of the military long ago. There was abundant evidence that his allegiance was not to the United States -- the country that had given his immigrant family safe haven and provided him the opportunity to become, at taxpayer expense, a physician, an officer and a gentleman. It was...
Lessons of Fort Hood
As far as literal readings of the of the Bible, it is certainly true that a literal reading of the New Testament would yield a "harmless nut job." A literal reading of the Old Testament would yield some fairly classic Bronze Age violence.
But then that is the point. Neither of the other Abrahamic religions has any significant number of adherents who subscribe to literal understandings of their holy texts that rise to the same level as that of Islamists. If they did, fundamentalist groups would be stoning adulterers and children who disrespect their parents, among many other things. Islam has not universally modernized to...