[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

We need to distinguish “Arabic” from Muslim. They are not always one and the same.

I have met Christian Arabs who emigrated here from the Palestinian territories (near Bethlehem, in this case).

It's sad that the deteriorating situation in those areas have forced them to leave ancestral homes they've been in for centuries.

But there's a very positive flipside to this sadness, at least where America is concerned. Because some unknown number of these Arab Christians have ended up in the US. And being fluent in Arabic all their lives, and having not the slightest shred of love for radical Islam, and wanting to do their patriotic duty for their new adopted homeland, they have readily consented to being recruited into a large variety of government agencies who have found that they have a desperate need for fluent Arabic interpreters since September 2001 (for some strange reason).

[BohDaThone]

While I am not a believer that we should all sit around and sing Kumbaya and not notice things about the world, this is a good example that FACTS and how people act must trump pre-suppositions. If you just looked at HER (the guard) and her name, and looked at HIM (the murderer) and his name, it would be easy for a lot of folks, some on these threads, to assume that she is more likely to be a terrorist and he to be an innocent victim. Life plays out in lots of funny ways, which is why we can' t jump too quickly on first news accounts.

BTW, a good example is the pastor's statement just now on LKL, that the second service was over and there were "only" a few hundred people left on the campus. That doesn't change the basic story of almost any of the discussion so far, but most people have been talking, on these threads, as if it were a fact that there were 7,000 people on site. Just another little point about waiting for real facts to emerge.