Terrorens årsager

Jeg kan forstå på Robert Wright i NY Times, at en væsentlig årsag til, at der findes muslamiske terrorister a la Nidal Hasan, er, at USA vælger at bekæmpe dem med magt, bl.a. i Irak og Afghanistan. Det lyder mærkeligt i mine ører.
Wright skriver under overskriften "Hvem skabte Major Hasan?" Jeg har et bud: Han skabte sig.

Fra NY Times blog kommer denne fantastiske bortforklaring på majorens kampråb:

Several witnesses to the rampage said they heard Maj. Hasan shout “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is Great,” before the shooting, but, as William Langewiesche explained in his examination of the crash, in 1999, of Egypt Air Flight 990, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board learned that invoking god can have lots of different meanings and many Muslims use the word “Allah” at times of stress who are not radical jihadists. The Lede, like many news organizations, has also reported that the very same phrase, “Allahu Akbar,” has been shouted from rooftops by reformers in Iran who are using it to express their passionate opposition to the Islamist government there.