My better half caught a TV appearance by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham discussing the recent shooting spree at Fort Hood. Meacham, who’s written entire books on the subject of religion, really ought to know better than this:

MEACHAM: Here’s, for what it’s worth, here’s what I think: I think the president was right to say don’t jump to conclusions. We can now at least sort of hop up to one. And it is that this is an act of terrorism committed by someone — clearly a Muslim, clearly influenced to some extent, we don’t know yet what, by radical Islam. Let’s call it what it is. It is an act of terror, which is part of what we’ve been struggling with now for nearly a decade. In the same way, to some extent, now I would not refer to it as Islamic terror in the same way I would not call Oklahoma City Christian terror. But there is no doubt that Timothy McVeigh — and I am a Christian — there is no doubt that Timothy McVeigh was affected by the warped edges of a white supremacist ideology that was informed to some extent and to some degree by antisemitism and that part of the world. So I wouldn’t shy away from it. It does a disservice to the people who fell.