The tragedy at Ft. Hood last Thursday has revealed a unifying thread tracing itself all the way back home to Arkansas, showing us that a ‘lone wolf terrorist’ isn’t so alone.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood terrorist, thought that “maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor” in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expressed that he was “almost sort of happy” about the Little Rock military recruiting center shooting last June. All of this was exposed by a former colleague of Hasan’s in an interview with Shepard Smith on FOX News. The Weekly Standard has posted key elements of this interview on its blog.

This kind of sympathy for such an evil act that left one soldier dead and another injured calls for a less lazy definition for Hasan (and others like him) than ‘lone wolf terrorist.’ The connection that Hasan has with Islamo-fascism philosophically is so strong; to imply that he was somehow a ‘lone wolf’ just encourages apathy. We just witnessed what he was truly capable of doing, and most people would call that terrorism. Now 13 brave soldiers are dead. When will we stop seeing these attacks as ‘isolated incidents’ and reject the political correctness that has so blinded us from the truth? We are fighting a war on Islamo-fascism.

Abdulhakid Mujahid Mohammed—an American-born Muslim convert who was under investigation by the FBI at the time of his attack in Little Rock—drove up to the Army Navy Career Center on Rodney Parham and opened fire on two soldiers. Mohammed was quoted later as saying that his act was “done for the sake of Allah, the lord of all the world.” Was this not the first known act of Islamic terrorism on our soil since 9/11?

Then, only 6 months later, the attack at Ft. Hood occurred. Major Nidal Malik Hasan “began his rampages, according to witnesses, as if praying and saying, ‘Allahu akbar’ – ‘God is Great,’” reported the New York Times on Monday.

Continuing to label Mohammed and Hasan as ‘lone wolf terrorists’ doesn’t go far enough, and it’s ultimately thinking in a box. Crime would run rampant and criminals would go free if local law enforcement didn’t connect the dots on a daily basis. Why can’t we connect the dots in this case? Mohammed and Hasan (and as a result the tragedies of Little Rock and Ft. Food) are connected because both attackers were Islamo-fascists who shared a common goal: Violence against anyone, and any country, who does not embrace their warped way of life. There are no ‘lone wolf terrorists’ in the war on terror.