A reader with a background in national security issues sends this link about the recently appointed new head of the NAACP-LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill.  She wrote at the time:

“To call it terrorism is to deliberately press a million buttons that we know will trigger very particular, and perhaps inappropriate responses. It’s premature and irresponsible to deliberately push those buttons while the investigation into this tragedy is still in its very early stages. . . . Our most pressing concern right now should be honoring the dead and the living by safeguarding against a similar incident happening in the future. For now, that means taking a clear-eyed view of what happened and recognizing that Maj. Hasan did not commit these murders because he was Muslim — anymore that those who murder abortion doctors do it because they are Christian. He committed these murders because he’d had some kind of mental collapse that was undetected by those around him.”

Perhaps Ifill eventually amended her assessment, which I am happy to republish here if someone sends it, but I wasn’t able to find it.

A reader with a background in national security issues sends this link about the recently appointed new head of the NAACP-LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill.  She wrote at the time:

“To call it terrorism is to deliberately press a million buttons that we know will trigger very particular, and perhaps inappropriate responses. It’s premature and irresponsible to deliberately push those buttons while the investigation into this tragedy is still in its very early stages. . . . Our most pressing concern right now should be honoring the dead and the living by safeguarding against a similar incident happening in the future. For now, that means taking a clear-eyed view of what happened and recognizing that Maj. Hasan did not commit these murders because he was Muslim — anymore that those who murder abortion doctors do it because they are Christian. He committed these murders because he’d had some kind of mental collapse that was undetected by those around him.”

Perhaps Ifill eventually amended her assessment, which I am happy to republish here if someone sends it, but I wasn’t able to find it.