February 9th, 2006 by Jemaleddin Cole

…but Christo­pher Hitchens¹, in an arti­cle about the ongo­ing lunacy over the anti-​islamic car­toons says:

But if Mus­lims do not want their alleged prophet iden­ti­fied with bar­baric acts or ado­les­cent fan­tasies, they should say pub­licly that random murder for vir­gins is not in their religion.

Which, of course, lots of Mus­lims say all the time. Every time some idiot extrem­ist blows some­thing or some­body up, James Zogby over at the Arab Amer­i­can Insti­tute has to issue a press release to point out, again, that they think these people are idiots too. But all I hear in the press is, “Mus­lims never do any­thing to dis­avow terrorism.”

I don’t know if it’s just lazi­ness or what, but this kind of thing is just get­ting on my nerves. So I ask:

When will Chris­tians repu­di­ate the abor­tion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph? Are they in league with him? Do they sup­port his ter­ror­ist tac­tics? Why hasn’t the pope said any­thing about this? These Chris­t­ian ter­ror­ists must be stopped!

¹ I used to hear Christo­pher Hitchens referred to as a clear-​thinking lib­er­tar­ian genius, but lately his writ­ing has gotten just incred­i­bly sloppy and poorly rea­soned. And every time I see him on TV he seems drunk. Maybe they meant to call him a “libertine.” What’s up with that?

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