Posted on 02/12/2015 9:02:43 AM PST by PROCON
Yesterday, an outspoken white atheist murdered three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We don’t yet know for sure whether this was a hate crime or whether the killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, had some other motivation; police have said the crime may have grown out of a dispute over parking. We do know that had Hicks been a Muslim and his victims atheists, few would be waiting for all the facts to come in before declaring him a terrorist. We know that there would be the usual calls for other Muslims to condemn the killings, coupled with the usual failure to take note of the many Muslims who did. And we know that demands for Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins to distance themselves from Hicks are largely facetious, because no one really blames them. Violence perpetrated by Muslims is almost always seen as part of a global conspiracy, whereas white men like Hicks are usually seen as isolated psychopaths.
There is, of course, some truth there. An organized jihadist movement exists; an organized cadre of terroristic atheists does not. Yet in the United States, Islamophobia has been a consistent motivator of violence. Hicks’s killing of Yusor Mohammad, her husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, should not be treated like a man-bites-dog story, a reversal of the usual pattern of terrorism. After all, Muslims in the United States are more often the victims of ideological violence than the perpetrators of it.
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Really?
How about the Oklahoma beheader, the Boston marathon bombers, the Fort Hood muslim terrorist, etc, etc...
This is how lies start.
The left again wringing their hands over their favorite "victim" group.
Islamist Murderer at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
(totally rolling eyes skyward in disbelief)
A woman named Goldberg is upset - as usual - about white males? And this one not even a Christian?
Good luck sweetie. If you want to believe the fiction that the Muslims are just misunderstood, you go right ahead.
They have a special destiny for the People of the Book as they call you. And it isn’t pretty.
But if you prefer that....
Indeed. How much of this have we had in the past twenty years, or thirty, or even forty? Muslim attacks outweigh incidents like this greatly—and the left has to be out of its collective skull over the fact that this attack was done by one of their own.
The guy was a liberal, atheist nut job. Hmmm, try spelling that out, then align it to Bill Ayers and Obama. That would show a bit of a trend.
Based on the title, had they said a half white man with a cell phone and a grudge I would have known they were referring to zero.
The Most Common Type of Progressive Idiot Is a Man-Hating White Woman With a Low IQ and a Grudge (this means you, Michelle Goldberg)
You forgot the Pen....
What could this Jewish leftist possibly gain by defending a group of people that are hell bent on her people’s (both Jews’ and leftists’) extermination?
I don't know why!...All of the recent tragedy's have been committed my registered democrats....I'm surprised there hasn't been a serious study on it...
Note no proof offered..
What about all those dead Muzzies lying in the streets of major US cities?
Happens on a daily basis, y’know—Several times on some days.
/sarc
And here I thought it was a white faggot with a left-wing blog.
yep.. they’re ALWAYS Christian, white, gun-owners who read their Bibles, believe in our nation’s founders, don’t like paying high taxes and kill in the name of Jeeeeesus!
This profile fits every time!
And of course batsh*t crazy. But that comes with being a leftist atheist (albeit I don't know if that world-view led to the craziness, or whether being crazy led to adopting that world-view).
This is just a case of an uninformed commentator cherry-picking only those characteristics that fit her narrative. Beyond that, it really isn't worth noticing.
She’s trying to protect her precious but exceedingly fragile world view from cruel reality. That often requires justifications of astonishing complexity and irrationality. Plugging their ears and screaming loudly works better, but that doesn’t translate well into print.
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