Tolerance. We keep being told we must have it
Dana Mathewson
Others refer to it as the elephant in the room. Or the 500-pound gorilla, despite the fact that gorillas don’t grow that large (irrelevant).
Ignore the fact that the Fort Hood shooter is Muslim. Celebrate our diversity. Keep the drums beating.
Hat tip to my brother-in-law David for this excellent Austin Hill article from Townhall (I apologize if all of you have already read it). http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2009/11/08/tolerance_and_the_other_american_muslim_tragedy
FTA:
By now, the horrific profile of Army Major Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is widely known. And despite President Obama insisting that we must not “jump to conclusions” [unlike the president’s jumping to conclusions regarding Officer Crowley vs. Professor Gates, I suppose — Dana] about this American Muslim man, the picture is still horrifying: an American soldier who openly disagreed with the policies of two American Presidents (the “Hawk” George W. Bush and the “Dove” Barack Obama), who complained about deployments, and made “outlandish statements” against his nation and its government, was nonetheless allowed to rise through the ranks of the U.S. Army.
The obvious question – the “elephant in the living room,” to use a term from the world of family psychology – is “why was this kind of behavior tolerated and apparently overlooked?” And the only obvious answer, at least at this point, is simply “because he is a Muslim.”
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OK, any liberals reading this, go ahead and call me a “racist” (even though the term doesn’t fit the situation) — but I won’t accept it. Wishing won’t make it so.