Major Hasan of unknown background

When Major Nidal Malik Hasan went to the convenience store yesterday morning, he was wearing white robes and prayer cap, according to a surveillance video shown on ABC. He is 'a Muslim of Palestinian descent', according to the Times of London. Yet the New York Times this morning says nothing about a religious link, and indeed goes out of its way to caution us that 'much about his background — and his motives — were unknown' and furthermore that he'd 'listed “no religious preference” on his personnel records'. Whatever happened to that pledge to give us 'All the news that's fit to print'? Perhaps fit is the problem. Facts that touch on religious, racial, ethnic, or gender differences evidently don't fit the Gray Lady's view of what's permissible for us to read. I'm switching my morning read to the Washington Post. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford