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November 08, 2009

Newsweek Upset Hasan Is Muslim 'Cause It \\\"Inflames Right Wing\\\"

 

Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim because of how that reality will be abused by conservatives. On this weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas, now Editor at Large with Newsweek after stints as Assistant Managing Editor and Washington bureau chief, rued:

 

I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse.

 

NPR's Nina Totenberg soon chimed in with agreement: "It really is tragic that he was a Muslim."

 

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