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The story is here.<\/a>\u00a0 That\u2019s not good of course.\u00a0 Details are still pending, but if the story unfolds the way the victim describes, it sounds like an attack based on the mere fact she was Muslim.\u00a0 That no doubt happens.\u00a0 The quotes from officials are somewhat vague.\u00a0 On one hand, it says what I\u2019ve noticed \u2013 being a native of the area\u00a0\u2013 that these things haven\u2019t happened much in the last 10 years, if at all.\u00a0 The quote from a FBI spokesman named Mike Brooks from the Cincinnati chapter of the FBI makes it a bit murky, since he states,\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t say that it never happens, but it\u2019s not something that happens every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does that mean in all of Ohio, Cincinnati, Columbus? I\u2019m not aware of any such attack in years.\u00a0 There has been more vandalism and arson against churches than Mosques, and our Jewish community has seen its usual dose of attacks over the years.\u00a0 Of course as one reader at Get Religion<\/strong> pointed out, since Muslims make up such a small number of Americans, that makes the attacks proportionally higher.\u00a0 And yet there are still 300 million Americans, most of whom aren\u2019t Muslim and almost none of whom are doing such things.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Again, none of this is to make light of the attack.\u00a0 It was wrong, and the stuff of hatred and ignorance, as is all such criminal activity.\u00a0 But before we go with the usual \u2018just shows how racist America is, how evil America is, why Muslims have every right to be cowering in stark raving fear\u2019, let\u2019s just compare and contrast how Muslims are fairing in America versus their Christian counterparts across the Islamic world<\/a>.\u00a0 Lest you think I\u2019m making mountains out of molehills from a single story about the Christian in Iraq, here are a couple other examples here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

FWIW, it took me all of four minutes to find the stories above.\u00a0 On any given day, I can find any number of reports of violence, oppression, and political discrimination against religious minorities across the Islamic world.\u00a0 And yet, I would be an Islamaphobic bigot to say there\u2019s a problem inherent in modern Islam because of it.\u00a0 Yet a single case \u2013 the first one I\u2019m aware of in years \u2013 of violence against a Muslim woman will be used to prove how racist and intolerant and ignorant America is. <\/p>\n

This is the legacy of Multi Cultural education.\u00a0 On one hand, it demanded that we never, ever condemn other cultures or civilizations.\u00a0 We never take the high road and presume to judge because that would be \u2018ethnocentric\u2019 (a word I heard a million times in my day).\u00a0 On the other hand, when one notices that we have far less tolerance for America, or Europe, when it comes to wrongdoing, we cannot say it is because Western civilization was in any way superior. It wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 To say otherwise would have been \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 ethnocentric.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a double edged sword.\u00a0 We hold America and the Christian West to a far higher standard, where anything less than 100% perfection is condemned as evidence of the most heinous evil, and yet we are not allowed to justify such intolerance of our sins on the grounds of being a better, more enlightened civilization with a better stock of people.\u00a0 Think that one through a minute, and it just could help explain the general malaise that permeates so much of the Western world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"