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Let's Not Forget That These Are All Individual Acts
In case you missed the paper this morning, here are three individual excerpts from today's New York Post:
• "Tuesday's stabbing must be taken for what it was: the act of a disturbed individual who is now in custody."
• "Indeed, it would be outrageous for the same people who reflexively insist that confirmed and coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks are "isolated incidents" that don't reflect on Muslims generally to suddenly insist that this one lone, despicable act somehow reflects the views and attitudes of, say, the 70 percent of Americans who oppose the Ground Zero mosque.
• "A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said."
And let us not castigate the entire New York Post for these isolated incidents of Muslim-baiting apologism.
Yeah. 70's probably a little high.
But see, that's what makes our country so great – individualism!
And freedom, natch.
Ooh, don't forget this one:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/us/26gainesville.html
Full of win!
Kid looks like an unwanted Trump.
this implies there is a wanted trump.
That kid looks like a serial killer.
Next step: Establish by every means possible that poor little Mikey Enright is a boy-child. His defense counsel will make the case that he the victim of some form of abuse from someone/everyone/everywhere, and if he was momentarily out-of-his-mind, it's not because he's an adult, or knew what he was doing– as he respects authority, and is so very sorry. A proper mental evaluation, counseling, rest and help will be the suggested best course of action … But yes, an embarrassing knife slashing attack can be disgraceful. "It says so in the paper."
Yes. Let's get this glass half-full: knife attacks=bad. Most of the time.
So, to their credit(?), mosque opponents don't generally advocate stabbings. Good for them.
Christ, I'll take the bait, Jonah Goldberg, you incredible asshole.
The number has hovered around the mid-100s or lower ever since.
Oh, so you admit that, except for the "anomaly" of 2001, hate crimes against Muslims are at A SUSTAINED 4.5 TIMES HIGHER THAN 2000 EVERY YEAR SINCE?
Yet, in every year since 9/11, more Jews have been hate-crime victims than Muslims. A lot more.
Yes. And there are also more than twice as many Jews in this country than Muslims.
No doubt some American Muslims — especially young Muslim men with ties to the Middle East and South Asia — have been scrutinized more at airports, but does that really amount to Islamophobia, given the dangers and complexities of the War on Terror?
No, it amounts to racial profiling.
It's an odd argument given that Americans have shed a lot of blood for foreign Muslims over the last three decades: to end the slaughter in the Balkans, to feed Somalis and to liberate Kuwaitis, Iraqis and Afghanis.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
this is when i hit close tab and duck out for a drink.
Yet, in every year since 9/11, more Jews have been hate-crime victims than Muslims. A lot more.
Should have been in italics. Asshole's words, not mine.
@robo: 8/26/10: Never Remember!
"… the same people who reflexively insist that confirmed and coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks are 'isolated incidents' that don't reflect on Muslims generally …"
You're damn right people "reflexively insist" that — because it's obviously true. The overwhelming majority of the billion Muslims in the world had nothing to do with those attacks, other than that they happen to be of the same religion as the small group of psychopaths who carried them out.
I also "reflexively insist" that Ku Klux Klan lynchings don't reflect on Christians generally, even though they burn a Christian symbol on people's lawns.
I reflexively insist that because believing otherwise is what's known as "bigotry." Look up the definition of the word, asshole!
Not to mention that it's an utterly false equivalence! No one has been saying that Stabby and Pissy's assaults "reflect the views and attitudes" of anti-Cordoba peoples. They've been saying that it's no surprise that the dishonest, inflammatory, operatic rhetoric used by the anti-Cordobas would incite the drunkenly stabby and pissy among us, regardless of their "views and attitudes" re: the ground zero terror command center.
No, Rollo, what they're saying is from this point on they are simply going to assert that any act of anti-muslim prejudice is a result of the campaign against the cordoba mosque because they care about politics way more than whether what they're saying is actually the truth.
Yes, Scum, there are people like that, but it's difficult to take seriously an argument for nuance that is itself entirely without it.
Last night my friends were driving down Houston at West Broadway and a cabbie cut them off and ripped the bumper off her car.
I wanted to stab him regardless of religion, as I am an equal opportunity vicious criminal.
Our real adversaries are the cab drivers. Focus, people.
We're all missing the obvious here: The guy said "asalaam alaikum" before he committed his act of terror, ergo he did it in the name of Islam. Another Muslim terrorist. Explain that away, apologists.
The only surprising thing about the Queens incident is that it wasn't a Korean grocery, or a bodega or some other thing in Jones Beach.
New Yorkers some racists mofos.