The argument that Dr. Hasan was unwell and so was not motivated by Jihadi motives is an excuse made by people who are infected with another virus, the politically correct virus.

After Muslim psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on soldiers in Fort Hood the New York Times commiserated with the strain military psychiatrists undergo. Obama echoed the theory that Dr. Hasan was just a soldier who cracked under strain. Dr. Phil McGraw pointed out on the Larry King show that Dr. Hasan faced the stress of imminent deployment and asked, "how far out of touch with reality do you have to be to kill your fellow Americans . . . this is not a well act."

The New York Times, President Obama and Dr. Phil and for that matter much of the liberal press all avoided stating the obvious, that Major Hasan was motivated by fundamentalist Islam. In fact when Tom Kenniff, a former JAG officer, said on the Larry King show that the shootings by Major Hasan looked a lot less like PTSD and a lot more like the Islamic terrorist act of Hasan Akbar — who in 2003 threw grenades randomly into the tents of fellow soldiers — Dr. Phil reacted with outrage and said, "you don't take the guys last name and impugn the Islamic nation are you kidding me?

And a third panelist on the Larry King show, Shoshana Johnson said, "Insinuating something like that is dangerous."

The argument that the stress of imminent deployment was responsible for Major Hasan's actions ignores the fact that Major Hasan's Grand Rounds lecture to his fellow psychiatrists — in which he said that infidels should have boiling oil poured down their throats — was given before his orders to deploy to Iraq. The argument that Major Hasan was a nice guy who just broke under stress doesn't hold up to scrutiny; the only good thing we can say about him was he was one of the few Grand Rounds lecturers whose lectures weren't boring.

There is an important element of truth to Dr. Phil McGraw's statement that Dr. Hasan was unwell, however that does not mean that his terrorist act was not motivated by Islamic fundamentalism. In fact, one could argue that all Islamic fundamentalists who support terror are unwell. Khaled Waleed, an ex-Muslim, wrote:

On Sept. 11, 2001, I saw the real face of Islam. I saw the happiness on the faces of our people because so many infidels were slaughtered so easily. I saw many people who started thanking Allah for this massacre.

This, as Dr. Phil McGraw stated in regard to Dr. Hasan, is not the behavior of well people. 

How can a religion make people mentally unwell? In order to understand this we need to understand what mental illness is. Voltaire had a very keen insight when he defined madness in his Philosophical dictionary. Voltaire wrote: "What is madness?  To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them."

Clifford Whittingham Beers, a recovered mental patient, made the same point in his book A Mind that Found Itself. Mr. Beers wrote:

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. Upon unreasonable premises I made my most reasonable deductions, and that was the time when my mind was in its most disturbed condition.

The implication of these statements is that for Dr. Hasan to be unwell he just has to be convinced of unreasonable premises. What are these premises?  Dr. Hasan stated them at his Grand Rounds lecture. They were summarized at Jihad Watch as:

1. If you don't believe, you are condemned to hell;
2. If you don't believe, your head is cut off;
3. If you don't believe, you're set on fire;
4. If you don't believe, burning oil is burned down your throat.

Was Dr. Hasan a delusional madman who made these things up? Jihad Watch points out that it's all in the Koran and quoted just a few of the many instances of such Koranic threats. 

Abul Kassem, an ex-Muslim from Bangladesh, was a student when his dorm was raided by Islamic madmen from Pakistan who butchered many of the students living there. He said: "Islam is like rabies, it turns an ordinary peaceful human being into a dangerous madman."

Rabies is caused by a virus. If Dr. Hasan is unwell that raises the question, what is the cause or virus that made him sick? One can draw an analogy between the premises that made Dr. Hasan unwell and the information encoded by the DNA of a virus. The DNA of a virus encodes information that replicates itself and spreads itself from person to person.  The premises stated by Dr. Hasan are also self-propagating. They frighten people into believing the Koran in which they are written. 

If the Koran just frightened people into believing, Dr. Hasan would not have felt obligated to open fire on his fellow soldiers. Islam does not just teach that you will burn in hell if you don't believe. The Koran teaches that the believer has the obligation to make war against the infidel. Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami explained on Iranian television that: "If we abide by the Koran, all of us should mobilize to kill."

That is exactly what Iran with its massive nuclear enrichment program, is doing. 

The argument that Dr. Hasan was unwell and so was not motivated by Jihadi motives is simply a desperate excuse made by people who are infected with another virus, the politically correct virus. It is a virus that propagates itself with the threat that innocent Muslims will be attacked if we don't hide the Islamic causes of terrorism. It threatens that Muslims will be offended and attack non-Muslims who speak the truth about Islamic terrorism. This virus leads to the silencing of those who would warn us of the danger of radical Islam.  The P.C. virus is similar to the AIDS virus in that it weakens the immune defenses of the host so that other other viruses — in this case the Islamic virus — become much more deadly. There is evidence that without the P.C. virus the victims of Dr. Hasan would be alive today. In fact there is evidence that without the P.C. virus the victims of 9/11 would be alive today. The first step towards a cure is recognizing these viruses for what they are.