why did it have to be a muslim?

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Most unfortunately, from all the innocent, set-up and framed Muslim young men we've seen paraded across the headlines over the last few years, there just isn't really any way we can outright take their word for it that Dr. Hasan was the shooter, or knew what he was doing, or that he's miraculously still alive, or, when you come right down to it, that he was even there. Just in general terms we can believe that he was antiwar because he is a doctor, and believe that in any case he is saner than those up the chain of command from him. Guilty or framed, we can tell that much, and the thing that makes me the most suspicious, beside this horrific track record of people being set up, actually harried into doing or saying something halfway incriminating, Dr. Hasan, of all people, would be the least likely to plot something like this because of what it would do to the prospects for all Muslims everywhere.

So. I'm as clueless as anyone about what really went down, but I just ask that we act like decent and informed citizens and retain our doubt about his guilt and the un-American forces that put him in such a situation.

Even in the worst case scenario, if the authorities were being honest, they'd just be griping that he had no right to take out those troops before they could die for Halliburton.