Klein: CNN: ‘Right wing’ may generate backlash against Muslims. Claims ’some already reaching conclusions’ on motivation of Fort Hood shooter

Aaron Klein (right), Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports from Tel Aviv:

A column on a “right wing” website suggesting an Islamic motivation for last week’s Fort Hood shooting massacre may help generate a backlash against American Muslim soldiers, according to CNN.

On CNN’s American Morning show yesterday, reporter Carol Costello quoted the mother of a Muslim U.S. soldier as fearing “a backlash against Muslim American soldiers.”

“She knows some are already reaching conclusions as to why Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on his fellow soldiers,” Costello stated.

“Continued Costello: “The right-wing website, Pajamas Media, is an example. Phyllis Chesler writing, ‘I knew in my bones that the shooter or shooters were Muslim. We must connect the dots before it’s too late.’”

Costello was referring to a Pajamas Media column, entitled “The Jihadist is always the victim,” in which Chesler quoted from widespread reports of Hasan’s ties to militant Islam.

Chesler wrote, “The only answer most people want to hear is that a lone, psychiatrically deranged shooter did it. All by himself, on his own.”

“They may be right. Sometimes. And yet…The same Instant Personal Jihad Syndrome once led another Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, to shoot Robert Kennedy in cold blood.”

Newsbusters notes Chesler herself does not exactly fit with CNN’s grouping of “right wing.”

Chesler, professor emerita of psychology and women’s studies at the College of Staten Island, has been a noted feminist activist who co-founded the National Women’s Health Network and the Association for Women in Psychology. She is known the author of thirteen books, including Women and Madness, Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, and The Death of Feminism.

In a 1998 interview with Time magazine about feminism, Chesler stated that “a woman’s body is her own, and she should not be invaded against her will by a rapist , nor should she be prevented from having an abortion.”

“Clearly, Chesler is no huge ‘right-winger,’ as Costello would have one believe,” noted Newsbusters.

Chesler is a prominent critic of Islamic extremism and is a supporter of Israel.

In her 2003 book, The New Anti-Semitism, Chesler argues that anti-Zionism and attacks against Israel are nearly indistinguishable from anti-Semitism.