No, no suggestion that he was treated with kid gloves because of political correctness;
Some Saw Trouble With Fort Hood Suspect - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com Quote:
"I told him, `There's something wrong with you,"' Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
Danquah assumed the military's chain of command knew about Hasan's doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates at the Maryland graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal complaint.
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I doubt any of these folks could have predicted the shootings, BUT the fear of PC backlash seems to have stopped the censure I'd imagine would be normal had it been a non Muslim expressing the various anti American views that have been linked to him. Especially as it was an ongoing theme, and not something he'd suddenly espoused just days before the shooting.
For example, over here when police or military personnel have been found to clearly sympathise with radical facist groups, they've been removed. It just makes sense to do so.