Nidal Hasan has no feeling in his legs.

The Czar would like to add that the unborn baby of PVT Francheska Velez does not either. Nor do 13 others who will never walk, or breathe, again. The media can pull the plug on Hasan’s pity party immediately. It, too, will not stand.

As you know, General George Casey, Jr., is very concerned that the Fort Hood mass murder will lead to a backlash against muslim troops.

After all, CBS, CNN, ABC News, NPR, and USA Today have all reported that there is anti-muslim persecution occuring in the United States military. Muslim Americans whisper story after story about the abuses and indignities they hear about from the muslim men and women serving in the military.

Except, according to Abdul-Rashid Abdullah, spokesperson for the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, it just ain’t happening.

Actually, Abdullah stated that his organization (which investigates exactly such matters) has yet to receive a single complaint.

Other people bothering to check with the muslim troops agree that while there are anecdotal claims about anti-muslim sentiment, there are actually few documented complaints; of those that are documented, none are indisputable. Most surround under-performing individuals (who are rare to begin with) or other, broader issues that have no direct correlation to discrimination.

However, the media report how widespread it is. In fact, the Army—actually, one of the growing number of unnamed spokesmen*—claimed that complaints are rare, but have spiked since the Fort Hood massacre.

Yes, but even these are expected to drop back to zero as they are investigated.

Okay, so all the real research refutes the idea that American muslims in the military suffer outrageous abuses. So why would the press say it is so?

Why are the media reporting on non-existent anti-muslim persecution in the armed forces?You may draw your own conclusions, which will probably be valid at some level. The Czar believes the following.

1. Hasan committed an act of war, with the knowledge and approval of al-Qâ’ida.

2. This happened during the Obama presidency, which is obviously a total disgrace given the President’s anti-Bush tirades about overstating the danger, manmade catastrophes versus a war on terror, legal restrictions placed on intelligence services, and so on.

3. Consequently, a different explanation must be found. Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome or Second-Hand PTSD was dismissed as laughably imaginary. Something more raw, more ugly must be found to explain the disgrace, at the suggestion of Janet Napolitano.

4. Hasan’s own relatives provided the answer by their statements about how oppressed he felt, that he was a victim of strong anti-muslim sentiments in the military.

5. The press sought to drum up as much anecdotal evidence as they could, citing portions of stories that were disproved or using non-military prejudices, hoping to justify the idea that Hasan, really, is another victim in this tragedy.

6. And that no disgrace shall fall upon President Obama. Even if it means CNN knowingly doctored an interview to remove the certainty of this point.

However, this strategy is failing badly and the American people are definitely catching on. An act of terrorism? Perhaps not technically so—but make no mistake that al-Qâ’ida hit us in the dead center of one of our strongest military icons.

*Want to know why more and more stories feature unnamed spokespeople? Because these quotes are peeled off a variety of different, unverified news sources, and rather than do any fact-checking, it is much easier for under-motivated journalists to skip the messiness of verifying quotes by simply listing the sources as unnamed. Now you know.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.