An all too common pattern is emerging in the wake of the tragic shooting at Fort Hood. The media and their so-called experts, woefully unrepentant about their glaring double standards in covering anything "Muslim," are uncritically trumping up the faith card (Even The New York Times is leading today's edition with the surveillance picture showing Major Nidal Malik Hasan in a 'Middle Eastern' attire, further distancing the killer from his American roots. Even if your text is more nuanced, pictures can go a thousand miles further. We might as well look for his camel parked outside the store and maybe a sword under his white kamis). Moderate Muslim leaders for their part are denouncing (rightly so) this heinous crime without being prepared to ask themselves the tough question should this crime turn out to be ideologically motivated: what can we do besides public denunciations to prevent indiscriminate violence in the name of faith, even when committed by one Muslim out of millions? If Hasan acted out of mental illness or extreme stress, then of course, his faith has nothing to do with his crime, but if he acted out of Islam, or a warped idea of his faith, then Muslims all over must ask where people like him get these ideas from and why they choose mass killing as a medium to channel their anger. Nothing, nothing justifies the killing of civilians whether in Iraq or in Texas. We need to look for different answers this time around, and purging Muslims from the military is not one of them.