American Extremist

Every day we see something in the papers or hear something on the news about some Muslim extremist.  In the last two months alone:

·         August 17, 2010 – Baghdad, Iraq. At least 59 people killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide attack on an army recruitment center.

·         August 31, 2010 – Kiryat Arba, West Bank. Four Israeli civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed by Hamas militants.

·         September 1, 2010 – Lahoire, Pakistan.   Three bombings kill 25 and injure 170.

·         September 1, 2010 – Kiryat Arba, West Bank.  Nineteen people died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a police station.

·         September 3, 2010 – Quetta, Pakistan. Two suicide bombings against a Shiite's Quds Day procession and an Ahmadi mosque kill 73 people.

·         September 6, 2010 – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Nineteen people died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a police station when there were many school children present.

With all this press, one would think that only Muslims are capable of terrorist attacks.  You’d think they have a patent on terrorism.

I can see why some, with their “Holier than Thou” mentality, apathy towards current events, and general lack of caring for anyone outside their own inner circle, not to mention another nationality or faith, would see only this part of terror.  That’s because this terror is directed at us.

However, in the same two months:

·         August 3, 2010 – Derry, Northern Ireland.  A car bomb explodes outside PSNI station.  Irish extremists.

·         August 4, 2010 – Bangor, Northern Ireland.  A bomb was found under a soldier's car in Bangor. The army carried out a controlled explosion.  Irish extremists.

·         August 10, 2010 – Cookstown, Northern Ireland.  A car-bomb partially exploded under a PSNI civilian worker's car. He escaped uninjured.  Irish extremists.

·         August 12, 2010 – Bogota, Colombia.  A suspected car bomb has exploded near the studios of a major radio station in the north of the Colombian capital, Bogota.  Columbian extremists.

·         August 14, 2010 – Lurgan, Northern Ireland.  Three children are injured when a "no-warning" bomb exploded in a bin, in what the PSNI claim was an attempt to "kill police or injure police officers providing a service to this community as they responded to a neighboring area following a very vague warning that a device had been left at a local school.  Irish extremists.

·         August 17, 2010 – Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia.  Two policeman were killed and three others injured by a suicide bomber.  Chechnyan extremists.

·         September 10, 2010 – Copenhagen, Denmark. In an incident suggested to be terror-related aimed at Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten's office in Aarhus, a man of Chechnyan origin allegedly caused an explosion in the basement of a Copenhagen hotel.  Chechnyan extremists.

Many Americans don’t see this.  They don’t care that non-Americans are dying all around the world at the hands of some extremist group or another.

However, when presented with these facts, many Americans are naïve enough to believe that the problem is caused by the Muslim, or the Irish, or the Chechnyan , or the Columbian.  They are too naïve to see that the problem is the EXTREMIST and not the nationality or faith.

As a result, they become the American Extremist!

The American Extremist doesn’t care that Muslims are killing Muslims, and Palestinians are killing Jews, and Irish are killing Irish, and Columbians are killing Columbians, and Chechnyans are killing Russians.  He only sees that “Muslims extremists” are killing Americans.  Therefore, Muslims must be the enemy because they are too lazy to get past the first word.

He doesn’t see that Muslims are part of their everyday life.  He doesn’t see them working at their favorite Starbucks, restaurant, market, Mc Donald, and their own job.  He doesn’t see them at all.

The problem is not the Muslim, or the Irish, etc.  The problem is the EXTREMISTS and this idiot’s solution is to become the extremist himself.  And as any red blooded American would do, they turn to government to ban the enemy.  Don’t let them build a mosque!  Don’t let them wear their headdress!  Don’t let them be American!

What they don’t realize is that every time we give government the power to ban something we don’t like, we give government the power to ban something we do like.  If we ask government to ban a whole group because of the actions of a few of its members, we give government the power to ban something we hold dear because someone else asked.

Ban gun ownership, abortions, alcohol sales, religion, internet purchases, etc.  These are all things some group or another has asked government to ban recently.  Is that what we want?

You have my wholehearted support if you want to tell the world that you are an AMERICAN, but we don’t want to become EXTREMISTS, American or otherwise.