Shining the Spotlight
<http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/07/shining-the-spotlight/>
Turns out this whole Fort Hood thing -- apart from being a senseless and
shocking human tragedy -- also creates a problem for our president,
according to the /New York Times/
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/us/politics/08address.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>:
Mr. Obama has made it a goal of his presidency to repair relations
with Muslims around the world; in a major speech in Cairo this year,
he called for a "new beginning" with the Muslim world. The shootings
at Fort Hood , however, pose a different problem for the president,
by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims feel inside the
United States.
The poor dears.
I dearly hope we can avoid any future such tension inspiring rampages.
Mark Steyn, being a less enlightened sort, sees things differently
<http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjlhMTk3YjhiMWNiNTE0OTBmOTc1ZjQ4MzM0MjFlMWQ=>:
Even if you are concerned that it would be terribly unfair if all
Muslims were to be tarred by Major Hasan's brush, it is, to put it
at its mildest, the grossest bad taste to default every single time
within minutes to the position that what's of most interest about an
actual atrocity with real victims is that it may provoke an entirely
hypothetical atrocity with entirely hypothetical victims.
Racist.
November 7th, 2009 | Tags: Headlines
<http://www.neptunuslex.com/tag/headlines/> | Category: Headlines
<http://www.neptunuslex.com/category/headlines/> | 41 comments
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