I got an e-mail from a doctor who works with Dr. Fadhli. He is upset about the approach I took to posting about this shooting incident, and the speculation about whether jihad was a motive. He is concerned because the doctor and his family have enough to worry about, without being unfairly branded as a terrorist. I think that he has a point.

I didn’t think I was doing that when I posted–but perhaps my words were inflammatory and not neutral. I still don’t see anything wrong with asking questions about motivation–as long as the questions are neutral in content. In fact, I think that everytime such an incident happens, the question will be the elephant in the room.

That said, I think that it is important that we be fair about discussing this case in the blogosphere. There is, after all, no evidence that the doctor holds jihadist beliefs–like there is in the other cases that Michell Malkin details– or that such beliefs motivated this incident. In fact, I think that Michelle should take the doctor off the list.

So, I intend to back off on this issue until there are more facts.