Shaukat Khawja
is not the only person posting content at the IslamUnity website; on the site’s main forum, a poster named Hamed has alerted the forumites to the existence of a Christian terrorist.
And admittedly, it’s a heinous crime — a freelance pastor stands accused of having murdered his wife. Technically, it’s not an act of terror (according to the accepted definition of the term), but it is a wretched and terrible crime all the same, and I hope they throw the book at the guy; his actions do not serve or give glory to Christ.
The forum post was made, according to its timestamp, at 3:24 AM on July 31st, 2008. Okay, so Hamed was up early…or late, as the case may be.
In the time since that forum posting was made, three people have died in acts of terror perpetrated by Muslims — a policeman and a civilian were shot dead in Somalia, and a schoolteacher was gunned down in Thailand.
The freelance pastor, Anthony Hopkins (no relation to the actor), was arrested on July 29th or 30th. In the time since police took him into custody, between as many as 11 people were killed (and another 4 injured) by acts of terror perpetrated by Muslims in five different countries around the world.
In the news article about Hopkins’ arrest, it is mentioned that nobody had seen or heard from his wife in over three years. Let’s call it…summer of 2005, then. Since that time…well…here’s the list for 2007, here’s the list for 2006, and here’s the list for 2005. I don’t have time to add up the number of dead and wounded that attacks perpetrated in the name of Islam have racked up in that time frame…but it numbers in the thousands.
Does the Reader suppose that even one such attack — even one of the two most recent recorded Islamic attacks, both of which killed at least as many people (one) as did Mr. Hopkins — has been mentioned on IslamUnity and labeled as an act of terror?
Cue crickets chirping.
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