November 1, 2017: A terrorist attack in New York City kills eight. Eight human beings lost. Eight tragedies. These kinds of attacks make all good people sick. Let’s not compound the tragedy. For too many narrow minds this will seem true: All Muslim Americans, and all Muslims, will be seen as complicit.
It would be wise to keep our wits.
Today, on yet another bitter day in the battle against terrorism, it would be wise to keep our wits. Informants who help us thwart similar attacks and concerned citizens who alert police to potential dangers are often Muslim American. The Kurds in Iraq have suffered thousands of casualties fighting ISIS. They’re Muslim. Afghan soldiers who have fought by our side for years are Muslim. There are millions of Muslim Americans living in our midst, who do not carry out cowardly attacks on bike paths in New York.
ISIS and Al Qaeda have killed thousands of Muslims all
over the world. They have slaughtered the innocent in Indonesia, Iran, and
Iraq. They have tracked a bloody path across Lebanon, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and
Kuwait. Muslims aren’t the problem. Terrorists are the evil we hope to stamp
out.
Keeping one’s head proves too much for Trump. In a cabinet meeting he describes the kind of quick justice he’d like to see terrorists receive. “They’ll go through court for years,” he complains.
At the end, they’ll be – who knows what
happens. We need quick justice and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger [emphasis added unless otherwise
noted] than we have right now. Because what we have right now is a joke and
it’s a laughingstock and no wonder so much of this stuff takes place.
I think what the president means is: “Wouldn’t a good lynching be nice!” We could
start with terrorists, lock up political foes next, go after reporters who
criticize, too. Who has rope??? (See: 11/4/17.)
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Fear of all Muslims is irrational. |
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