Muslims must denounce terror, while Islamophobes get a pass

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/6701352-452/muslims-must-denounce-terror-while-islamophobes-get-a-pass.html

NEIL STEINBERG [email protected] July 26, 2011 9:38PM

Turnabout is fair play. Though some lines of thinking are so false and twisted that it’s hard to adopt them, even temporarily, for the purpose of rubbing somebody’s face in their own hypocrisy.

But let’s try.

The terrible attacks last week in Norway — a bombing, some 70 young people slaughtered at a summer camp — at first seemed the work of an al Qaeda-type group. Norwegian Muslims felt the need to denounce the terror.

And then, no, never mind, not an Islamic terrorist at all, but a home-grown, blond-haired, blue-eyed Norwegian nut job obsessed with the growth of Islam in Europe.

So ... can we expect the Islamophobe crowd to behave in the fashion they demand of others? Will Newt Gingrich denounce this atrocity? Will he say that while he supports fear-mongering and casting casual slurs at entire groups of people based on the actions of a few, that he doesn’t go the next step and support the random murder that his brand of corrosive fear so obviously can lead to?

[provis99]

1. and black leaders must denounce black crime.

but white leaders never have to denounce Timothy McVeigh, the KKK, or anti-abortion terrorists.