He was just an elderly gentleman walking down the street wearing the badge of his faith and now he is dead. When the shock jocks get off on attacking and demonizing an entire religion, as has now become standard practice on Hate Radio, this is what you get. It appalls me to see the remarks in right-wing blogs claiming "every devout Muslim is an enemy of America" (yes, I have actually read this) but when you play with fire, what do you expect? For the most part you'll be arguing with idiots who didn't pass Sesame Street's lesson on making distinctions for three-year-olds ('one of these things is not like the other...'), harmless if ugly, but occasionally these twisted ideas will be latched upon by real mentals who only need that that last bit of prodding. And now another man is dead.
This follows a rise in hate crimes against Muslims or perceived-Muslims which should make every American ashamed, and now it is in the halls of Congress.
MSNBC:
WEST SACRAMENTO, California — The daily stroll had become routine for two elderly Sikh men in a Sacramento suburb, as well as for neighbors and friends accustomed to seeing the men walk by with their long beards and turbans.
But the traditional headwear might have singled them out late last week when they were gunned down, one fatally, in what police are investigating as a suspected hate crime.
Now this fool Rep. King is validating this hateful mentality of demonizing an entire group of people. This is a natural culmination of the Ground Zero Pier 51 debate in which, lacking a communist threat to justify the vast and wasteful Military Industrial Complex which President Eisenhower tried to warn us of, it has been replaced by shilling that part of the population which doesn't think too much with the threat of the Ground Zero Triumphalist Mosque as the beachhead of the coming Cosmic Caliphate.
Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "'Don't worry! says the Duke. 'Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?'"
The kicker is Rep. King and whoever is behind his circus must know that they are in fact helping the real terrorists. Jonathon Alter reports:
I had dinner last weekend with a U.S. attorney for a district not far from ground zero, and he was disturbed by the King hearings. The congressman has said law enforcement officials have been telling him privately that they aren’t getting cooperation from local Muslim communities. Not so, said this U.S. attorney. He told me—privately—that he meets regularly with representatives of the community. They routinely provide the FBI and prosecutors with valuable leads and evidence. But now they are terribly worried about the stigma coming from King’s hearings. This U.S. attorney and his colleagues are being forced to spend valuable time reassuring local imams that the U.S. government means them no harm.
The moron who attacked the two Sikh men was so stupid he couldn't tell the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim, a dimwit Brownshirt savage ordinarily kept under a rock by civil society. But they are encouraged and incited to violence in ugly times when the Powers That Be use this precise mechanism to keep attention away from the wholesale theft of the US Treasury, through bail-outs, permanent wars, and tax cuts for the rich.
This is not accidental. People like Hate Radio's Michael Savage have a national audience and are carried by radio broadcast giant clear Channel Communications. Savage once advocated the killing of 100 million Muslims, saying:
"Oh, there's a billion of them...'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'd be 900 million of them.' I mean ... would you rather us die than them?...Would you rather we disappear or we die? Or would you rather they disappear and they die? Because you're going to have to make that choice sooner rather than later."
Savage called for troops on the street “to protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work.”
An Hispanic news site reported that in 2008:
Jim David Adkisson entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killed two people and wounded six during the presentation of a children’s musical. In his car, police found a four-page letter where he expressed his hatred of the “liberal movement’, and wrote he targeted the church “because of its liberal teachings” and his belief that “all liberals should be killed” because they were “ruining the country.” Inside Adkisson’s home, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage.
Demonizing or casting entire groups of people under suspicion, based on religion, race, color, or sexual preference, is un-American. Individuals commit crimes, not religions. The race to the bottom in ushering in fascism always begins with appealing to and empowering those not equipped mentally to understand the difference.
Michael savage broadcast, from watchdog website NoSavage.org