Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists

by Cinnamon Stillwell  •  Nov 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/11/fort-hood-and-the-academic-apologists

My latest Campus Watch article, which is posted at The American Thinker, examines the reaction of Middle East studies academia to the shooting rampage at Fort Hood and finds it predictably apologetic:

In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East studies "experts" for enlightenment. Instead, what the media, and, by extension, the American public, has received is the moral relativism and obfuscation that too often meets any effort to address Islamism or jihadism in an intellectually honest manner.

To read the entire article, please click here.

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