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Snipers and the Fear of the Name "Muhammad"

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by Jason Roth

It's only 8:00 AM in New York on October 24, but TV's hired talking heads (a.k.a. "experts") are already pissing in their proverbial pants. One of the two sniper suspects is named "Muhammad".

Within ten minutes, I heard two talking heads telling anyone within earshot that it's "unfortunate" that this guy's name is Muhammad. It will only "tarnish" an already tarnished community. Like it's a mere coincidence that someone who "also goes by the name John Allen Williams" (Associated Press) just happens to have changed his name to a Muslim one.

Let's put this attitude in perspective:

• Whether you're Muslim or not is irrelevant to whether you terrorize and kill people.

• Some people actually hope that murderers aren't Muslim so that Muslims don't have their feelings hurt.

Yeah, me, too. Personally, I'm hoping for another few dozen shootings, and to satisfy my thirst for multicultural, politically-correct death and destruction, I'm praying that each killer represents a particular race, religion, and creed. It'll make me feel a whole lot better once we catch a white Catholic ax murderer, a Vietnamese Jewish strangler, and if we really hit the jackpot, a Buddhist knife-wielding, sexual assaulting cannibal who happens to be an Eskimo from Australia.

Let's get one thing straight. People don't change their names to Muhammad because they run out of movie popcorn. And another thing (try to pay attention if you're still in terrorism denial), it doesn't fucking matter if these guys have had any contact with bin Laden's Special Deputy of American Wannabe Terrorist Motherfuckers or not.

Al Qaeda has issued a call to jihad against the United States. The phrase "a call to jihad" does not imply the necessity of a hand-delivered engraved invitation. Like-minded individuals who accept the tenets of al Qaeda and act on orders issued by al Qaeda are de facto al Qaeda members.

Now, we don't know all the details in this case yet. But take a look at this, from Associated Press:

Several federal sources told the Seattle Times that Muhammad and Malvo [the other sniper suspect] may have been motivated by anti-American sentiments in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Both were known to speak sympathetically about the men who hijacked jetliners over Washington, New York and Pennsylvania, the sources said.

So three facts we do know are: one of these guys changed his name to a Muslim one (and one report says he converted to Islam seventeen years ago) and they both may have been motivated by "anti-American sentiments in the wake of September 11" and they spoke sympathetically about the September 11 terrorists.

If we're going to be afraid of a serial killer's fucking name because it might make a bunch of Muslims cry, then we better reevaluate whether we still want to be living twelve months from now. If the idea of Islam having anything to do with people getting shot (or smashing into buildings on their trip to the Left Coast) causes anyone to start shaking in their shoes, then goddammit, someone staple-gun those bastards' feet to the fucking floor.

We are in a war. That war is against the practitioners of Militant Islam. It is not against "terror". It is not against people who have personally played golf with bin Laden or ate meatloaf and mashed potatoes cooked by one of bin Laden's wives and tucked in bin Laden's kids after reading them the story about the three fucking bears. The war is against militant Islamic terrorists who want to kill us. (And in case you haven't noticed, they've often succeeded.)

At minimum, can we at least do one simple thing? If by some bizarre chance, some "crazy wacko, probably working alone" happens to kill an American and happens to practice Islam, can we keep our fucking eyes open and at least try to admit some of that knowledge into our brains?

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