The jihadis and the Jews (Updated and bumped) Contributed by Bill Faith
I would have bet a six-pack today's Vent would be about Reutergate. I'd have lost. .
*** Update and bump. Originally posted 09:14
White washing Islamists By Joel Mowbray
Hiding behind potted plants, Naveed Haq laid in wait for a 14-year-old girl he could use as a hostage. With a gun in her back, he pushed his way past security and through the door. He coldly, deliberately shot six women. When a wounded Pamela Waechter tried to flee up some stairs, he followed her, leaned over a railing and killed her.
Are these the actions of a crazy person?
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In other words, media outlets have spent fantastic energy exploring every possibility -- except the obvious one. Moments after spraying bullets across the offices of the Jewish Federation, he announced, "I'm a Muslim-American; I'm angry at Israel." So while Mr. Haq's short-lived apparent conversion to Christianity might be interesting, it neither inspired the murderous rampage nor serves as evidence that something in his Islamic environment did not.
Where is the investigation into what messages Mr. Haq heard in his hometown mosque, which was founded by his father? Or how about a look at the culture and attitudes of his hometown Muslim community?
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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 7, 2006 at 10:54 AM in , , , |