Punditry: August 2006 Archives

Quick, Blame the Muslims!

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When the shooting occurred at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, a majority of the right-leaning pundits leaped upon the fact that the shooter Naveed Afzal Haq looks Arab and has a Muslim sounding name. Chief in laying the case was our own "Lady of the Death Camps" Michelle Malkin, who posted "evidence" that he was Muslim and his attack was against the center because apparently all Muslims don't like Israel, or something like that.

Except he's not Muslim. He converted to Christianity last year, and his attack was more about Israel's bombing of Lebanese civilians and the US foreign policy in Iraq. He's apparently a very unstable person, and this was a tragedy that unfolded from that instability.

Rather than be deterred by her incorrectness, Malkin added a link across the top of her post which points to 'a random gallery of "lone" shooters' ( quotes hers, I guess implying that they're working together as part of some larger network, or maybe that Allah told them to do it, whaterver ). This is meant to demonstrate to us how there are all these muslims acting out their aggression through violence on civilians. This is her munificent proof, ladies and gentleman, that Muslims are EVIL and should be locked up in concentration camps.

So let us turn our attention for a second to Eric Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh. Good Christian boys, like Bobby Frank Cherry, recently convicted for involvement in the bombing of churches in Birmingham, AL. Maybe we should round up the Christians of certain fundamentalist demoninations and throw them camps as well.

You think she'd go for that? Of course not. She wouldn't want to advocate anything radical.

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