Islam is the religion of peace. To suggest otherwise, based merely on all available evidence to the contrary, is somehow racist.
Elsa Buchanan, International Business Times:
A 15-year-old high school student has been arrested after shooting his teacher with a BB gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar” in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.
The young boy had entered his high school carrying the gun, an airsoft grenade and a knife, with the intention of killing his literature teacher, with whom he had had an argument…
“He told investigators that he had [worked on] a plan for one week, in which he was to stab his French professor and steal the car of his physics teacher under threat before ramming the car in the gendarmerie to die a martyr,” Christian de Rocquigny, Châlons-en-Champagne’s prosecutor, said.
How odd. Where on earth would a 15-year-old boy get such an idea? How could he possibly think this was appropriate behavior? What could have driven him to such a bizarre, self-destructive view of the world around him?
We don’t know, and we never will.
My condolences to the Muslim community in France. As usual, you’re the real victims here. The real crime is all the muttering and dirty looks and unpleasant tweets you’re getting. The rest of us aren’t like that, though. Please don’t kill us. We’ll be good.
Update: Gaza Imam Wields Knife, Tells Congregation to Kill Jews Like Muhammad Did. But he didn’t mean it like that. Haven’t you teabaggers ever heard of nuance?