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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: cavegal on June 15, 2016, 02:18:29 PM

Title: NOT ‘Largest Mass Shooting’: Second Deadliest Act Of Islamic Terror
Post by: cavegal on June 15, 2016, 02:18:29 PM

http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2016/06/13/not-largest-mass-shooting-second-deadliest-act-of-islamic-terror-n2177607?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Within hours of the Orlando massacre that occurred early Sunday morning, veteran academic and prolific writer Mary Grabar predicted on her Facebook wall that “liberal pundits” would soon enough be “linking the Orlando shooting [at a gay nightclub] to other instances of homophobia, such as Harvey Milk and the Stonewall riots.”

The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), continued Grabar, would get busy planning a documentary entitled “‘Homophobia in America,’” a film that will show how the Christian origins of homophobia “infected American culture, how ‘migrants’ from places like Afghanistan, alienated and bewildered by an Islamophobic American culture, picked up the homophobia and ‘hate,’” and “how in desperation they turned to violence, taking advantage of lax gun laws….”

Most of this prediction has already come to pass.  Few of us will be surprised if it all comes to fruition soon enough.

Dr. Grabar’s point is well taken: “Liberals,” i.e. the left, can always be counted upon to regurgitate their tired stock phrases, clichés that, however logically irrelevant to the issues at hand, have proven to be politically useful.

This time, however, their talking points aren’t just irrelevant.  They aren’t just ridiculous.

They are offensive.

A self-sworn Islamic jihadist pledges his allegiance to ISIS and then drives over 100 miles from his home to shoot up a gay nightclub.  Immediately prior to killing at least 50 people and