Brief thoughts on Nidal Hasan

I’ve kept my mouth shut on the Fort Hood shootings, largely because I didn’t have much to say on this incident. I’d rather not be known as the Mark Ames of the Roissysphere, blaming every rage killing on sexual deprivation as opposed to economic deprivation. But yesterday, Professor Hale posted on Hasan’s love life, or more appropriately, the lack thereof:

We learned yesterday that MAJ Hasan, the narcissistic psycho, is also a world class loser with the ladies.

After living his entire adult life in the USA, he last year asked his Imam to help him find a “nice Moslem girl” to marry. His requirements were simple. He wanted a girl like mom who would wear head coverings all the time and go to prayers 5 times a day. He met with no success.

Dennis Mangan has also touched briefly on this:

Now, it’s been pointed out both here and elsewhere that the surplus of single men in India and China, most of whom are utterly without a realistic prospect of marriage, has at least until now not resulted in extraordinary social disruption or terrorism. So, perhaps what we have in the case of Hasan means: Islam + sexual frustration = mass murder.

Given the specific circumstances of this case, I’d say that Hasan’s sexual frustration wasn’t the primary cause of his mental illness. That said, it’d be foolish to deny it had a role in driving him to kill those innocent people. It’s like I said – we’re going to see more of this as Western civilization slides further into the abyss.

For more, see Obsidian’s post on Hasan.