The white-washing of Major Hassan's mental state all makes this easy!

Submitted by RLR (United States), Nov 20, 2009 at 16:52

There is a great lesson and path forward to this tragedy. We can now clearly put away Islamic extremists!

They are either: (1) a threat in their violent orientation, and deal with them criminally or (2) mentally ill (as we are being led to believe of Major Hassan), in which case we lock them away in mental institutions!

So the imams that preach violent jihad; the young men (and some women) buying into violence against those they define as infidels - we can send them away as mentally ill! Because maybe in the end, this indoctrination does actually make them all mentally ill.

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