Is Jared L. Loughner a Christian terrorist? We don't know, because his religion has never come up. But let's do a little rework here - instead of that round, white face we've seen all over the news, let's imagine a dark, swarthy face, with a beard, perhaps. What would Rush and Company be saying today?
This is short diary - but I've noticed that Loughner's religion has not been discussed even once - nor has his ties to Christianity been explored. Why? If we discover that Jared L. Loughner is a Muslim convert, you can bet that the haters on the right - Rush, Sean, Bill and Sarah - will be blaming Obama for his Muslim outreach and lack of national defense - and screaming that this is his 9/11 - while never admitting their own 9/11. The Teaparty freaks will be looking towards Pam Gellar to organize a rally of hatred. The Democrats will remain silent, as is their want. Muslim Americans will again be viewed with suspicion and hatred (with a renewed vigor). Mosques will be vandalized, death threats sent - but most of all, Loughner will no longer be the deranged gunman - but a Jihadi bent on destroying us for our freedom - even as he claims his act a revenge for the destruction we've wrought on Muslim homelands in the Middle East.
But we won't be talking about religion today - because we only talk about religion and violence when we're talking about Muslims. Jews and Christians can go right on with their killing - the US over in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq, and my people in the Palestinian wasteland - because we kill in self defense, and that's good. Muslims kill because they hate Hollywood, MTV and short skirts, not to mention gays and puppies and sun flowers. And we all know that Jared L. Loughner is no Muslim but a crazy (white) killer - insane, shielded by his diseased brain from the hatred spewed by the right wing: there's no proof this crazy nut man has ever read a newspaper, heard of Sarah Palin or ever listened to talk radio - so he's CWAZY - but not too crazy to be put to death by a US court of law...