Reading the Washington Post one could be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that Muslims living in the United States were the actual victims of last week’s latest mass killing by … errr … Muslims living in the United States. The Post didn’t have much to say about the fourteen innocent civilians gunned down by what now seems certain to be another terrorist attack by Islamic fanatics. The Post was, however, very concerned about the “intense backlash” being experienced by the Muslim community.
Among the shocking examples of anti-Islamic hate crimes unearthed by the Post are the following:
- A Muslim child did not go to school.
- A hijab wearing lady was assaulted by a motorist honking his horn aggressively in her direction.
- A New York newspaper published the factually correct headline “Muslim Killers”
And one of the killers was apparently teased about his beard.
It would seem apparent to me that none of this would necessarily compel one to walk into a Christmas (sorry “Holiday”) Party and shoot fourteen of one’s colleagues dead, but what the hell would a white guy like me know about Islamophobia?
Next someone will tell the Washington Post about the “I’ll ride with you” hashtag campaign that ingenuously made Muslims the actual victims of a terrorist siege in Sydney Australia last year, even as two innocent people were being callously executed by an Islamic State sympathising terrorist. The great irony in that very successful campaign, which duly went viral with the enthusiastic support of the national broadcaster (the ABC) and the left wing media, was that, not only was it entirely invented, neither could an actual “backlash” be found, not even an aggressive honker in a car.
You couldn’t make this up. “Useful idiot” doesn’t quite do it. If anything would cause the fun loathing zealots in Raqqa to smile it would be this piece of cultural suicide.
Source: After Paris and California attacks, U.S. Muslims feel intense backlash – The Washington Post