Murder is murder, no matter what your party affiliation is. The problem is that there are those who would use such stories to push politics, people who are excited by the death of a party supporter because the loss of this life will somehow support their perverted political beliefs. Those like Democrat Representative Charlie Rangel would use such tragedies to further their own ends, but instead of focusing on the political implications of these recent murders, let’s simply report on what happened…
Last Sunday, while attending Church, Doctor George Tiller was gunned down by a “pro-life extremist”. Doctor Tiller performed late-term abortions, and according to authorities, had received many threats on his life because of his work. What do I think of this tragedy? Simply that, this event is a tragedy. As horrible as his work is, it isn’t an excuse to murder a man, especially not in a Church while he prays. If they really wanted to end the practice, you don’t kill a doctor, you get politicians to create laws making this illegal. All this murderer accomplished was inciting anger towards the religious community, the same community he was trying to “protect”… Pathetic…
Now Michelle Malkin has been following the fallout from this story, and it isn’t pretty. It honestly doesn’t surprise me that the Daily Kos would be using this tragedy to push their disturbing world view, especially not Markos Moulitsas, the website’s founder. The Other McCain has found itself hounded by one radical who has twisted the blogger’s words for his own ends. I am sure myself and other right-leaning bloggers will be accused of supporting actions like this, ignoring that I do believe in a woman’s right to choose (I just don’t think abortion should be a substitute for contraceptives). It is only fair right? Group the moderates in with the radicals, villainize all of us because of the “sins” of a few… Pathetic…
Just a day after this tragedy, another happened. At 10:30 am, recent Muslim convert Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad opened fire on an Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, killing Private William Long and injuring another. Muhammed, previously Carlos Bledsoe, was under FBI surveillance since he returned from Yemen. Both Jihadwatch.org and Michelle Malkin are covering this story, so if you want more details, I would recommend you give their posts on this tragedy a read. I will say though that the murder of anyone in uniform, be it military, police, etc is a crime which hurts us all. We should be more protective of those who protect us, and we should all morn the loss of those like William Long, individuals who died in service to their country…
There isn’t much I can say about Adul Hakin Mujahid Muhammed. It is obvious that he is simply a symptom of a growing problem in North America, and until will are able to admit that, crimes like this will keep occurring. We have had trouble recently in Canada due to a handful of “home-grown terrorists”, and it is troubling to see that even with both the FBI and the RCMP stepping up efforts, these attacks continue. As for the criticisms directed President Obama for not condemning this act (as of yet), I say let’s not get carried away. Is it his fault this happened? No. Did this attack happen because of his election victory? Of course not, especially since crimes like these occur no matter who is in office. Is it insensitive of him to not address this tragedy? Yes, but once again, he isn’t the cause of this attack, so let’s direct our anger at the real cause of this, Islamic extremism and anti-American groups within our borders. I have to say it is nice to see that many Huffington Post readers are in agreement on this fact (for the most part). Reading the comment section, I was pleasantly surprised to find outrage similar to that found at various right-wing sites. If anything positive comes out of tragedy, it is that it unites the country (and both sides of the political spectrum) in morning…
To sum this all up, let’s try to remember that both these incidents were tragedies. This is not a time for political partisanship, it is a time to morn. Those who would use such tragedies to further their own agenda are as guilty as the murderers who committed these horrible crimes. Let’s try and maintain some kind of morality within our political debates, let’s not lose ourselves to rabid partisanship… Murder is murder, no matter which party you vote for…
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a post up about President Barack Obama’s latest press conference. Seem more than a missed opportunity to denounce the attack in Little Rock. It does seem rude, but knowing Obama, he most likely is trying to find a way to denounce Adul Hakim Mujahid Muhammed’s actions without sounding like he is targeting America’s Muslim community. Pathetic if you as me…
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is reporting on President Barack Obama’s statement. I knew it was going to “underwhelming”, mainly because he refused to make a statement about the murderer being Muslim or anti-war. Who knows, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammed may be one of his many voters, and with him still campaigning, he doesn’t want to upset them. Pathetic…
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! According to Doug Ross, the FBI was ordered to “back off” terror suspects by the White House. This is definitely something I would want looked into, especially since it sounds like more of this deranged “War on the War on Terror” nonsense. If true, then Obama does share in the blame for this tragedy. Would it surprise me? Not at all, especially not now with everyone embracing Obama’s “Muslim roots”, an issue which would have branded you as a racist if you dared to mention it during the election. It seems lately he is more concerned with appeasing the people who hate us, then running the country that elected him… Pathetic…
The troubling thing is that this terrorist was planning more attacks… Why the White House would ignore the threat he posed to society is the question here, if not the real tragedy considering that this may cost more American lives in the future… Downright disturbing if you ask me…
UPDATE: Now this infuriates me…
Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Department of Justice’s Outreach and Enforcement Efforts to Protect American Muslims
Thursday, June 4, 2009
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement relating to President Obama’s historic speech today in Cairo, Egypt:
“The President’s pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.
“There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear – to pit our national security against our civil liberties – but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles.”
Americans, just like us Canadians, are a caring and tolerant people. Muslims come to our shores because they know they will be safe here, because they want to be free of the tyranny they lived under in the Middle East. I don’t care what President Obama and Eric Holder say, the Muslim community doesn’t have anything to fear from us. They just can’t help themselves, they have to keep attacking our way of life…
If anyone is to be afraid, it is us. Radicals within Muslim communities target us because they don’t respect our “fundamental rights”, and definitely not our “religious freedoms”. What planet in this administration living on? What colour is the sky in their world? Forget “give peace a chance”, no speech in Cairo will keep these people from trying to kill us. On this D-Day weekend, let’s try and remember the sacrifices made by those who fought to keep our way of life safe. Let’s not become wrapped up in our own self-importance President Obama…
Freedom isn’t free, you have to fight for it. That was the lesson you refused to learn from them, but how could a man like you understand? A man like you who never served his country, but instead spent much our your career attacking those who do, wouldn’t understand that… Pathetic and downright infuriating…
