Newsweek Upset Hasan Is Muslim 'Cause It "Inflames Right Wing"
Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim because of how that reality will be abused by conservatives. On this weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas, now Editor at Large with Newsweek after stints as Assistant Managing Editor and Washington bureau chief, rued:
I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse.
NPR's Nina Totenberg soon chimed in with agreement: "It really is tragic that he was a Muslim."
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azghost
Senator Obama in his own words states, "We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails".
He said this a month before he was elected... MMM MM MMM
Candycane
It's not that he is Muslim.
It's all the facts that are alligned by his actions and words.
Domestic terrorism.
Many red flags.
Quite covering up for him and the Army.
Stop the smoke screening.
This is the same kind of cover up and blind journalism that got the potus elected and in the white house.
DP
Why do these Newspeople keep saying " alleged " or Suspected Shooter in their one sided stories????????
BlueEagle
Keep making excuses for these muslim terrorists you bunch of idiots ! Your favorite muslim in the white house is headed in the same direction as your fish Wrapper straight in the trash can !!!!!!!!!
Capn Jack
The man depicted on this video is exactly what we have to fear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
spinfree
Today you have to do what is politically correct rather then what is right. The left seem to like it that way. We better wake up pretty soon.
ce
THANK YOU, Mr. Thomas for exposing LEFTWING LIBERALS for being COWARDS and WIMPS!!! Thank you for exposing CONSERVATIVES as the TOUGH GUYS against TERRORISM. We cannot tolerate ACTS OF TERRORISM upon our nation and the American citizens. When our military troops are attack right on their bases, we get very angry and want something done about it. We have a problem, YOU LIBERALS ARE IN POWER, you consider the TERRORIST before the VICTIMS. THAT'S A REAL PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY!!!! Mr. Thomas, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!
ce
THANK YOU, Mr. Thomas for exposing LEFTWING LIBERALS for being COWARDS and WIMPS!!! Thank you for exposing CONSERVATIVES as the TOUGH GUYS against TERRORISM. We cannot tolerate ACTS OF TERRORISM upon our nation and the American citizens. When our military troops are attack right on their bases, we get very angry and want something done about it. We have a problem, YOU LIBERALS ARE IN POWER, you consider the TERRORIST before the VICTIMS. THAT'S A REAL PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY!!!! Mr. Thomas, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!
Independent1776
What makes it much worse is the pre-9/11 mentality. All Muslims are not terrorists; but when one is you should not be ignoring it.
Cisco
Every person in the United States of America should be inflamed by it and it should not make any difference if he was a Muslim or not!!!!!!!!!
Ja
I get it now. Attack Americans who attend tea parties as un-american, racist, terriost, etc., but call a real terriost a victim. This my friends is change you can believe in.
rancherman
'imflames Right wing'.
as opposed to ' appeases left wing'?
I swear, before this is all over, Hasan will be deemed a 'victim'.
If it walks like a duck....
Estasia
Who does he write for?Hmm ok ..i do not read his articles or his piece of a distorted news magazine.If the news does not fit your views you change it accordingly to pass on your social dislike of any who oppose your views.Now this sounds like many network news anchors as well,must be a virus or something!
koa
I must have misunderstood, I thought our unarmed military were slaughtered. And Evan Thomas, leftist is shedding tears for the shooter? Again they never met an enemy of this country that they didn't love.Boycott Newsweek.
Condor
"Why couldn't he have been a right wing fundamentalist"???? WHY OHH WHYYYYYYYY??????????????????????????????????????????????
American Eagle (OathKeeper)
When you invite a snake into your house don't complain when you get bitten.
American Eagle (OathKeeper)
OH, these creeps, they would have loved it if the guy had a been a Fundamentalist Christian though, you would have never heard the end of the blame game then.
rancherman
like my parents would advise me 40 years ago: When you 'hang out' with people who are trouble makers, you better be prepared to be accused of something sooner or later. No matter if you actually were involved or not. The 'non violent' muslims had better start 'denouncing' and separating themselves pretty darn quick.
CB
The only reason these left wing idiots speak as they do is to excite their own against the GOP. It has nothing to do with reality.
dems gone wild
political correctness is another way of saying favor the minority over the majority.
B.O.H.I.C.A.
Yea - look at England - you think the problem is exagerated there ????? Profiling is not racist - it saves lives.
kat03
My husband was in the military for 20 years, still works for the military. If he as a white male said anything like this muslum man. He would not have been promoted. It would not go this far. Because of affimitive action in the military the only ones discriminated against are white males.
Justiceman
Anti-Muslim activities on the rise, should another attack of great size happen on American soil look for an American uprising against the cleric's and mosques.
dems gone wild
It's our fault now that the looney left is stupid?
Their political correctness facism has major errors.
dems gone wild
I know you're trying to get more looney libs on this site, so when our posts do show up, they are loaded with errors.
Nice going mod, we know you're a liberal.
dems gone wild
pointy headed liberalsIt's our fault now that the looney left is stupid?
Their political correctness facism has major errors.
dems gone wild
pointy headed liberalsIt's our fault now that the looney left is stupid?
Their political correctness facism has major errors.
dems gone wild
It's our fault now that the looney left is stupid?
Their political correctness facism has major errors.
gold2512
sure he was a mass murderer that happened to be muslim-
the 9/11 terrorists were flight school dropouts that happened to be muslim-
one thing is perfectly clear, even...you're not from csi
dems gone wild
It's our fault now that the looney left is stupid?
There political correctness facism has major errors.
Speedbump
Yes Newsweek, you should be concerned about us. Not because news stories will inflame us, but because old media magazine like yours are irrelevant.
Sonny
Everyone of these radical islamic muslim terrorists and their supportors would all be imprisoned in another country, but not here in the US, because we have the right of free speech. They have taken advantage of this right, and american generosity and have spit in america's face.
And what do the far these left liberal socialist marxists in the white house do, especially Janet Napolitano, the Anti-American Veteran Secretary, and the media do, they support these radical extremist islamic muslim terrorists... giving them sanctuary...
They all make me want to puke.!!!!
Sonny
Everyone of these radical islamic muslim terrorists and their supportors would all be imprisoned in another country, but not here in the US, because we have the right of free speech. They have taken advantage of this right, and american generosity and have spit in america's face.
And what do the far these left liberal socialist marxists in the white house do, especially Janet Napolitano, the Anti-American Veteran Secretary, and the media do, they support these radical extremist islamic muslim terrorists... giving them sanctuary...
They all make me want to puke.!!!!
Condor
I'll just bet they wouldn't be too upset, if his name was John Smith, he was a life time member of the NRA, and he lived in a log cabin in Idaho!! That would certainly fit their stereotyping now wouldn't it!!!!
mrcfiman
"it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse."
So the REST of the people are deaf, dumb and blind ?? The 66,882,230 that voted for Obama might be, but that DOES NOT INCLUDE ME, SPORT !
Liar-berals are Going Down
Good grief, and these fools are supposed to report the news. Idiots all.
DS
Talk about 'out of touch'.......these media elite are the true 'nut cases'!
therepublicrevealed
looks like, walks like, quacks like, okay he is not a TERRORIST he is a kitten.
This will never penetrate the liberal left as they would not join the Military to defend this country. But they will become columnists or politicians so they can tell you how wrong you are and how your lying eyes do not see what they see.
I will believe a cartoon before I will believe these guys.
http://www.therepublicrevealed.com/forums/index.php?topic=368.0
Paladin
What the left is really upset about is the fact that they no longer control the news. Tea party people get their news from talk radio, Fox news and the internet. Liberal newspapers are dying off and MSNBC and CNN have been marginalized.
d'Raven
Nothing has change, they are still playing the Race Card, if something happens after this, they will be pointing to the Right for somebody to blame, the spin(liar)master at it again...
Piglet-U93
Newsweak has been on the Islamic side since 9/11.
The religion of hate and murder and lies.
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/ -- Origin
http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj/ -- History
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ -- Today
steve.c.
What is tragic is people still buy your rag of a magazine, that can't report terrorism even after they trip over it. You are experiencing the denial of a terrorist attack, happening again because we now have a President unlike his predecessor with the resolve not to let it happen again
The Constitutionalist
How much you want to bet they are funded by hezbollahislamistterroristamericanhaters? just like their best friends down in central and south america.
Sonny
When you ally yourself with the enemy, like the liberals have, you will eventually be eaten up by the enemy. They are so naive, it's not only idiotic, it's extremely dangerous. These islamic muslim extremists want to destroy you or enslave you, you being non-islamic muslims, especially the Jewish people, then america.
These liberal idiots better wake up and smell the danger...
Sonny
America was attacked, and is still being attacked, by Islamic Muslim Extremists like Hasan, not christians, not hindu's, not the Jewish people, etc..
These far left liberal idiots just want to paint islamic muslims as benevolent liberals... give me break.!
The far left liberal radical idiots in america think and believe that christians are the enemy, and not the radical islamic muslim extremists like Hasan.
Idiots.....
2500hd
and the muslim trash being proud of what happened this is AMERCIAN IN GOD WE TRUST not muslim .
Lee In KY
If they were actually journalists, they wouldn't be "upset". It would just be news - just the facts. Instead, this is an excellent admission that they are pushing a left-wing agenda. He is upset that the facts don't mesh with his ideology - his world view. He doesn't want to have to report the truth - which should be his first priority. Sadly - it's not - and newsweek has become nothing more than weak news.
W.2030
lets see here, willie says, first he's in an all white muslim garb and turbin, yells allahu akbar before he shoots, is linked to two of 9-11 terrorist.
dss
Mr. Evans, terrorism should inflame both the right AND the left AND every American in between, regardless of ethnicity, religion or political persuasion. If he were white, with the last name Smith & a Christian would you say, "Gee, too, bad, because this is really gonna inflame the far left"? No, you wouldn't. But that's how absurd & bigoted your statement is.
Johannes
Don't worry or express concern over all the innocent people who were murdered, just "cringe" and be upset that this incident with a muslim might upset the "right wing." Is there anyone else who sees that there are enemies of freedom within and in high profile places besides me?