On a recent Sunday morning a gunman approached his victim, pulled the trigger and killed him with one shot. The shooter was arrested and jailed, and then the finger-pointing started. You see, the deceased was one of a handful of late-term abortion specialists in the U.S. who terminated healthy nine-month old fetuses. The assailant was a radical anti-abortionist.
The response from Christians was widespread, condemning the murder as "a gravely wicked thing." Operation Rescue, the militant anti-abortion organization that had picketed the doctor's office, issued a statement that denounced "vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place."
On the following day a gunman shot two army recruiters with an assault rifle, killing one of them. The assailant was a Muslim convert who was born in Tennessee and came to the attention of the FBI while in terrorist-friendly Yemen. He had ties to a terrorist-connected school and obtained a Somali passport. The FBI noted that the passport enabled the killer to enter the U.S. with his American passport not showing stamps indicating where he had traveled. He returned virulently angry and acted on his rage using one of the several guns found in his vehicle.
The silence of the Islamic community was deafening.
In the doctor's case, the outrage was immediate and intense. According to columnist Michelle Malkin, "news anchors and headline writers abandoned all qualms about labeling the gunman a terrorist. The legions of finger-pointing pundits happily convict(ed) the pro-life movement and every right-leaning writer on the planet of contributing to the murder." The President condemned it and the Justice Department dispatched marshalls to protect abortion clinics, as though Christians were marching down the street with torches and pitchforks.
Abdulhakim Muhammed's assault rated no such coverage. He was regarded as a lone gunman acting independently, the President issued no statement, and the term "terrorist" was studiously avoided in the media.
This isn't about abortion. It's about our culture's eagerness to expand an un-Christian act perpetrated by one person into a subtle smear that gives a negative impression of the faith in general. Linking Christians to terrorism while ignoring the terrorist leanings of an Islamic killer provides an unusually rich contrast that emphasizes the point.
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