On Texas and the Muslim "Problem"

06/17/2016

From the Texas State Almanac: "The U.S. Census Bureau estimated in 2000 that there were 29,518 Texans of Lebanese and Syrian ancestry. Although their numbers may be small in comparison to the state’s population, the Lebanese-Syrian impact on the culture has been profound."

So this is what fires me up. All it took to reject its (Texas) history of Arab immigration and influence, and to sue its own nation's administration over the resettlement of Syrian refugees escaping an ongoing, brutal and politically-motivated genocide in their native country, was the falsely-planted and propagated idea that all Muslims present a domestic security threat.

I'd like to quickly rehash the following non-Muslim hate crimes in the US since 2008. I know, bias, please just read:

2015 Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting

2015 Charleston Church Shooting

2014 Las Vegas Police Ambush

2014 Kansas Jewish Center Shooting

2014 Blooming Grove Police Shooting

2012 Sandy Hook

2012 Tri-State Killing Spree

2012 St. John's Parish Police Ambush

2012 Sikh Temple Shooting

2012 Aurora, CO

2011 FEAR Militia

2010 Carlisle, PA Murder

2010 Austin, TX Plane Attack

2009 Pittsburgh Police Shootings

2009 Holocaust Museum Shooting

2009 George Tiller Assassination

2009 Flores Murders, Pima County, AZ

2009 Brockton, MA Murders

2008 Knoxville, TN Church Shooting

I'm not saying this to be incendiary but to remind us that those with unresolved hate in their hearts eventually act violently. Whether it's local and quiet - domestic abuse for example - or a mass-tragedy that becomes highly politicized to take advantage of this nation's inveterate "darker than white" perceptions, hate begets hate. And those with sociopathic levels of empathy prey on the willfully ignorant.