Of course we know that the killer was not an Arab, but was an extremist Israeli. But, as the title says, what if the killer was really an Arab? I think all hell would have broken lose.
My good friend Falcon asked me to write about the recent massacre in Illinois, to demonstrate to the world (err, I mean to the handful who reads my blog!) that terrorist acts are done by other people than Arabs and Muslims.
Yesterday, a student in a university near Chicago opened fire on his fellow students and professors. He was armed with three handguns and a shotgun. The police found 48 empty bullet casings and 6 shotgun shells. He killed 5 people before he pointed the gun to himself.
As you see, this was an act of lunacy. A despicable act that claimed the lives of many innocents. The gunman was not a "raghead". He was not an Arab or a Muslim. He didn't have an explosive belt or a rusty AK-47. He was an American citizen.
Does this make all American terrorists? Nope! It doesn't. This is (I mean, was) a troubled person who did an unbelievable thing. The thing he did should be condemned but without generalizing. Without racial remarks. Without hatred to his kind.
In last year's Virginia Tech shooting spree, the shooter was South Korean, but American media didn't jump to the conclusion that all South Koreans are crazy terrorists, right?
So, dear reader, I ask you the question that haunted my memories for so long:
What if the killer was an Arab?
P.S. I hope that they don't blame the shooting on video games! Blame it on guns, people!!!
4 comments:
couldn't have seaid it better.
I hope you get a column in a famouse newpaper of website one day.
thanks alot
I don't know if that is a fair comparison, I mean it is ok to compare the extremist assassin of Rabin with other "terrorist" but to compare them to a crazy boy with a gun, who most probably didn't know what he was doing when he was killing those kids and probably has some sort of psychiatric illness... he is bad don't get me wrong, but he probably didn't know what he was doing, on the other hand the other category do it on purpose and they have no psychiatric illness, they do what they do because they believe it is right and they believe it will help their cause whether we agree with it or not.
So no fair comparison here.
But your point is right, I mean in Abo Ghreib for instant the American media and the "honest brave" Hollywood movie industry, didn't portrait American people, all of them, as being sadistic maniacs who enjoy torturing their prisoners and take photos with them while they are fully naked, just because a couple of soldiers, under direct orders from their superiors, did that in order to obtain "information" from Iraqi prisoners
So yes you are right about that and it is called BIAS
Thanks my dear friends, Falcon and Leopard.
To Leopard:
I didn't compare Rabin's assassin with the Illinois shooter. I only used the whole Rabin story as a background for the question: what if the killer was an Arab?
You are right in somethings, the boy was sick, but he actually did plan for his attack, right? I mean, he has to buy the guns and ammo, and take them to the crime scene to kill his colleagues. He didn't take the guns there to copy Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver!
In fact, the terrorists are also diseased. But not every disease gives its host immunity from legal and ethical prosecution. They are diseased, up there in their logical centers. If they allow this tiny center to take control of their minds... they won't do it. But I think the IC for this center was fried! Must add a cooler and heat sink there...
Also to Leopard:
I forgot to say: Welcome to my blog!!! This is your first time to comment. Keep it up...
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