{"id":29221,"date":"2012-03-21T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29221"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:30:33","slug":"dont-blame-islam-for-the-toulouse-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29221","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Blame Islam for the Toulouse killings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the headline of an article in the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/edwest\/100145716\/dont-blame-islam-for-the-toulouse-killings\/\">Telegraph<\/a> today. It&#8217;s just jam-packed with dhimmitudal goodness;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s easy to get it wrong because so many of the world\u2019s varied extremists, whatever their motivation and however much they might hate each other, focus their anger and loathing on similar targets \u2013 the state, the city, modernity, capitalism, and the one group who embody all these complicating, unsettling changes in the minds of lonely, failed young men \u2013 Jews.<\/p>\n<p>People often make the wrong call because that\u2019s what they want to believe, because it fits into their narrative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our&#8221; narrative? It seems to me that the whole article fits into the Left&#8217;s &#8220;Religion of Peace&#8221; narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Googling my ass off here, trying to find the Telegraph&#8217;s article begging for restraint in the incident of Koran burnings a few months ago, or the incident last week when a US Army staff sergeant killed 16 Afghans in their sleep. Needless to say, my searches are coming up empty on that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People should reconsider this idea, but as for the tragedy in France, it does not say anything about Islam, only of human nature and its potential for evil. All that matters ultimately is that three innocent children, a father and three young soldiers are now dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember reading anything about SSG Bales getting his idea for murdering children in their beds from his religious instruction in Sunday school, but I do read in this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/road-radicalization-toulouse-kandahar-141704414.html\">Reuters<\/a> article about Mohamed Merah, the guy who is backed into a corner in Toulouse, radicalized by his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salafi\">Salafist<\/a> religious instruction. And according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/03\/21\/french-shooting-suspect-mohamed-merah-arrested-after-toulouse-siege\/\">National Post story<\/a>, he had been planning to kill again today if he hadn&#8217;t been thwarted by the French intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the headline of an article in the UK&#8217;s Telegraph today. It&#8217;s just jam-packed with &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Blame Islam for the Toulouse killings&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29221\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Blame Islam for the Toulouse killings&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}