Sorry, I've been away from the blog for a few days, keeping very busy with work and other activities. Since I've been away, of course, there's been a lot of stuff to comment on.
One item that is drawing major attention is the recent shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. (There was another shooting the very next day in downtown Orlando that didn't draw the national headlines, but it caught a lot of attention down here. If really got my attention because the police closed I-4 in both directions for several hours, causing huge traffic jams, one of which I got caught in.)
The shootings at Fort Hood have drawn a lot of venom towards the shooter (for obvious reasons,) but one area in which there seems to be a lot of anger is due to the the shooter's religion. He's Muslim. Cary McMullen, the monkish scribe of religion at my hometown newspaper, the Lakeland Ledger, comments on his blog that anti-Muslim rhetoric seems to be spewing forth at a mighty rate.
I would agree with McMullen. As I was stuck in traffic last Friday due to the shootings in Orlando, I was scanning the AM radio dial, looking for traffic updates when I came across a talk show host named Michael Medved. I had not heard him in years, and his show was just starting, so I thought, what the heck, I'll listen for a bit to see what he says.
Sure enough, the anti-Muslim stuff started right away. It was just another example of how fast people are to label Muslim's who commit violence a "terrorist."
I wonder -- when that guy in Cleveland (now dubbed "The Cleveland Strangler") first came to light, did anyone look at HIS religion? I mean, here's a guy who alledgedly killed 11 people (at least). This is hideous stuff! But is he a Christian? A Jew? A Hindu? I can't find a thing to tell me.
Something seems to tell me that the Strangler's religion ain't important because he's not Muslim.
Just not fair, in my humble opinion.
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