Who's NOT acknowledging that we're at war? Hey, I'll agree, if people don't acknowledge that, then they have a problem. But acknowledging we're at war is one thing -- playing pin the tail on the donkey and trying to connect the two incidents based on his "Ismail Ax" reference is another.
If REAL evidence comes out that this was motivated by religion, then I say start making the connections. Otherwise, it's silly.
We’re at war with an enemy that has attacked schools in the past, and made their intentions of attacking more schools in the future well known. We’ve found diagrams of US learning institutions in caves in Afghanistan. Last month, an FBI warning went nationwide alerting school officials to possible terrorist plots involving school buses. Last year, an Islamist student used an automobile to attempt mass murder at the University of North Carolina. Two years ago, two grown middle eastern men boarded a school bus in Tampa for no apparent reason.
The point is, when the news of this shooting broke yesterday, the logical first reaction of any moderately well-informed person should have been “is this terrorism?”.
So far, that question hasn’t come close to being answered. Therefore, the question remains.
And if connecting the name “Ismail” to the Koran is ridiculous, why isn’t connection the name to “Moby Dick” even more ridiculous? Which book commands its readers to carry out acts of violence and which one does not? Is there some sort of worldwide uprising of “Moby Dick” readers we need to know about?