It's too early to know much, but three young Muslims (two of them covered women) were murdered by a neighbor in North Carolina yesterday. Supposedly there was a dispute over a parking spot, but I doubt if that was the only motive. Ridding the world of three members of a "broken religion," as Bill Maher and Lawrence O'Donnell have put it, would that be the right thing to do?
I doubt if the killer watches Maher or O'Donnell. He's a slob with a gun and a car he'd like to park. But what if his crime was exactly what President Obama was trying to head off when he said Americans are not at war with Muslims?
I'm an atheist, but I believe that the enemy is extremism, not one religion or the other.
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