Tunku Varadarajan, at Forbes, want to add a new term to the vernacular:

‘Going Muslim’

“Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.

As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub–disconcertingly–”Going Muslim.” This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American–a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood–discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

One good point that Varadarajan makes: When someone “Goes Muslim”, there’s no snapping, no psychological tipping point.

The harder, it would seem, to recognize the onset of the condition.

Which means: woe be to the sufferer’s co-workers or associates.

[h/t: Instapundit]