A U.S. Army psychiatrist identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 12 soldiers and wounded 31 others at the Fort Hood military base in Texas today. As the national media struggled to clarify the story, early reports that Hasan was a practicing Muslim (since confirmed) prompted a flood of commentary and speculation among bloggers—as well as tweets for restraint. But as Right Klik insists, "It's too early to draw conclusions, but it's not too early to ask questions." (Watch Lt. Gen. Robert Cone give a press conference on the Fort Hood shootings.) A sampling of early reactions:
Joshua Pundit: "The dinosaur media is pushing the angle that Hasan was 'unhappy' because he was being deployed to Iraq, where as a psychiatrist he would have seen no combat. Don't you believe it for a second. This was a jihad attack, and I can almost guarantee that when the dots are connected, there will be a Saudi funded mosque and a radical imam in the picture. Thankfully, a number of American Muslim groups have condemned these murders unequivocally."
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