May 5th, 2010
Michael Bloomberg has come in for deserved criticism from the right for this idiotic comment:
“If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that,” Bloomberg said. “Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
People tend to focus on the “health care bill” part–which is ridiculous enough. But the really offensive portion is Bloomberg saying that the attempted bombing “could be anything.” Because of course, there are plenty of groups it absolutely could not have been.
For instance, how many terrorist incidents have there been in the last 20 years from Unitarian groups? Episcopalians? Tibetans? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
If Mayor Mike doesn’t want to be candid about the obvious–that the overwhelmingly likelihood of the involvement of Islam with this terror incident, that’s fine. You could cobble together a rationale for such a demurral. But to affirmatively construct the idea that it could have been lots of groups who absolutely could not have been behind the incident is worse than dishonest.
At some point America is going to get over its multi-culti sensitivities regarding Islam’s alarming rate of coincidence with violence. And it won’t be a happy day.
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