Fort Hood Shootings

Dallas New: Fort Hood capitain: Hasan wanted patients to face war crime charges



The Dallas Morning News took a different stance on the Fort Hood Shotting, than President Obama would have wanted. Brooks Egerton the journatlist who titles his latest article on the Fort Hood Shootings, "Fort Hood captain: Hasan wanted patients to face war crime charges." Just within Egerton's title we can feel the harsh tone he has taken to Nidal Malik Hasan's unexplainable act. In Egerton's article he believed that "the revelation add to portrait of Hasan as a man at odds with many of those around him - emotionally , religiously, and ideologically. He was, by various accounts, lonely, paranoid, and increasingly zealous in his fundamentalist Islamic believes. He has been writing e-mails to a radical cleric in Yemen who called the U.S. war on terror a "war against Muslims" and advocated killing soldiers." The harsh implications Egerton makes about Hasan's intentions make readers assume that it was his Islamic beliefs that caused him to do such a horrific thing. Egerton uses words "lonely" and "paranoid" to describe Hasan, then he goes on to subtly offended Islamic beliefs by stating that he was some sort of terrorist.