In Florida, some people took time to camp in the woods next to a mosque and shoot at the Muslims who were arriving to celebrate Ramadan. (Link)
Bill O'Reilly, best known for his bloviating and blustery style and mocked for his continual accusations about a war on Christmas denounced the attacks on the mosque as a "further example of the godless attacking the godfearing in a turbulent difficult time".
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Well, actually, he didn't. In my mind he should have though. I know he doesn't necessarily think that Muslims are godfearing, and he's clearly a devout Christian, but Christ wouldn't have advocated attacking others for their faith, and certainly not by sitting in the woods taking pot shots at the people entering a mosque. It's disgusting that this happened, though I imagine it's simply a case of just some good ole boys getting drunk and sitting in the woods giggling as they shot at the building and the people.
The last thing we need as a culture is more division and separation. We don't gain anything by splitting the Muslims apart from the rest of the world, or all the South Asians from the rest of us. Separation doesn't lead to peace or security, no matter how much Michelle Malkin really wants it to work.
I hate sounding like a broken record, because I risk sounding like an apologist for Islam, which I'm not (the religion has its issues, as do some of the practioners of the religion, but that's true for all religions just about). It just seems to me that if some shitheads had parked outside a Christian church and drunkenly started firing at the people filing in for Wednesday evening Bible Study, O'Reilly would be marching down the street in front of the church, arm in arm with Jerry Fallwell and Ralph Reed, decrying the war on Christianity and demanding the capture of these yahoos.
Which is what should happen.
Christianity : the religion of peace.
*rolls eyes*
or they might have been atheists... but somehow I doubt.
In the Sept. 18 incident, several pellets from an air rifle were heard ricocheting off the Islamic worship hall.
Friday night, the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, someone fired five bullets at the mosque as a 59-year-old worshipper stepped out on the south side of the building to talk on a cellular phone.
Police do not know if it was related to the earlier air-gun shooting, or if the shooter harbored anti-Islamic sentiments that pushed him to target the mosque. Either way, Friday's shooting was the third incident to take at the mosque in less than a year, escalating from graffiti of a stick-figure crucifix left behind on a wall to gunfire
:( can't we all just get along ?