Leftists for some reason have decided that Muslims aren’t white. This is a strange decision, of course. Skin color has nothing to do with religion. There are black, brown, and white Muslims. I’ve spent time in two Muslim countries – Turkey and Egypt – and most people I saw in those countries I thought of as white. Ditto for the many Muslims from Iran I have met. Nevertheless, Muslims aren’t white, according to leftists.
So, when they saw an image of the Colorado shooter, and he was obviously white, they immediately classified him as another ordinary white American male, but then came the news that he was Muslim and an immigrant from Syria. Oops. See here for an article in Legal Insurrection about their stupid tweets. They have only themselves to blame for this mistake. They didn’t need to insist that Muslims are not white. They could have actually accepted the reality that some in fact are white, but no. They have a narrative to uphold and protect. (And of course, it allows them to imagine that being Islamophobic is a species of racism.)
By the way, let me add something to yesterday’s talk about the perpetrator’s name. I should have said that it ought to be spelled as al-‘Issa and not al-Issa or, even worse, Alissa.
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