We'll certainly have some discussion on this today. Suffice it to say for these notes ... when I went to bed last night (after a particularly fun party) I didn't know the name of the [Fort Hood] shooter. I told my wife that it was my guess the shooter would turn out to be a Muslim. Well .. this morning we're treated to the name ... the shooter was Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Doesn't sound like a Deacon in the local Baptist church to me. It seems that Major Hasan had some problems with American foreign policy. So ... let's just shoot up some soldiers. According to a fellow soldier this Muslim (I'm guessing) goon said that Muslims had a right to rise up attack America. Word is that he is actually a convert to Islam. More news expected today.
Waking up to the wonderful, peaceful, serene, peaceful religion of Islam.
The paragraph above was published today on the website of Neal Boortz, a nationally syndicated radio host based in the Atlanta-area. My question is what would make Boortz say such a thing? Has he done research on past shootings at military bases? Is there a disproportionately large number of American Muslims who regularly shoot-up U.S. military bases? Not as far as I can tell. A simple Google search revealed that.
According to Boortz, a good Christian white male would never do such a thing. I guess he doesn't know about this guy, or the hundreds of other soldiers who have committed murder on American military bases. Very few of them are Muslim.
Boortz's comments stem from his hatred of Islam. He has allowed the violent actions of people who claim to be Muslims to characterize his views of Islamic doctrine. I wonder why he doesn't do the same for Christianity, a religion whose wars have killed far more than any Islamic fundamentalist could ever fathom? Or for Judaism, whose national homeland has made life as unbearable for Palestinians as Palestinian terrorists have for Israelis?
I am disappointed in what Neal Boortz has become. It was his radio show that first got me interested in libertarianism as a teenager. Now he has become nothing more than a hateful right-wing zealot.
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