Because one is not a Christian, that's why.

From the Inbox in Time Magazine, December 7, 2009, regarding the Fort Hood shootings:

I found it interesting that your cover photo of Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed in the name of God, labels him a possible terrorist [Nov. 23]. In Verbatim, Scott Roeder, who also killed in the name of God, is called the "accused shooter". What's the difference between them again? I am less concerned about the thousand or so radical Muslims, who are highly monitored, than I am about the million or so unguarded radical "Christians" whose hatred is fanned daily by the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

David Berry, Raton, N.M.

Brilliant.