"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." --Bishop Desmond Tutu

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

URGENT: Terrorist Attack on US Soil!

That should have been the headline, but when the attackers are white christian men and the victims are Muslim women or children, the press doesn't spin it that way.

DAYTON — A 10-year-old girl sprayed in the face with a chemical Friday, Sept. 26, while at a local Islamic mosque was not the victim of a hate crime, police Chief Richard Biehl said.

The girl was watching children whose parents and relatives had gathered at the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, 26 Josie St., to celebrate Ramadan when she noticed two men standing outside a basement window about 9:40 p.m., according to police.

One of the men then sprayed something through the open window and into the girl's face from a white can with a red top, according to a police report. The girl said she immediately felt burning on her face and felt "sick to her stomach," the report stated.

Not a hate crime. Not a terrorist act. I guarantee you if a Muslim man had sprayed a 10 year old Christian girl in Sunday School with an unidentified chemical, it would be blasted across the headlines as a terrorist attack.

Mosque board member Tarek Sabagh said many people within the mosque speculated that the incident was the result of a DVD about Islamic radicalism titled "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" that was mailed to area homes by its producers and circulated as a paid advertisement with more than 70 newspapers, including the Dayton Daily News.

"We are not linking the two at all," Sabagh said.

The message? Don't be a Muslim in Dayton, Ohio.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The article didn't mention the race of the men or their religious affiliation.