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July 09, 2002 THE JEWS DID IT: What's the betting on when some Islamists will start arguing that the LAX shooting was actually a Jewish plot? Hadayat's widow insists her dead husband had nothing to do with what happened.

GUNS DID IT: The Guardian frames the LAX shooting within the context of gun violence in America. I kid you not. Here's Peter Preston's view: Two innocents killed at a ticket check-in are two too many. They are also mere drops in the ocean of blood which the US allows to flow daily - including on July 4 - through a society where guns and gun culture remain ubiquitous. The lengths to which these appeasers will go to defend terrorism and attack the United States still take my breath away.

MORAL EQUIVALENCE WATCH: Nick Kristof, after yet another murder of Jews by a Muslim hater, worries about American religious bigotry. "If we want Saudi princes to confront their society's hate-mongers, our own leaders should confront ours," he preaches. Our bigotry is as bad as theirs', he opines. Excuse me? When conservative Christians start murdering thousands of Muslim and Jewish civilians in the Middle East, it will be. Until then, there is simply no equivalence between anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S. and anti-Western and anti-Semitic terrorism in the Arab world. One bigotry mouths off (often appallingly). The other murders thousands of civilians because of their religion and culture and glories in it. If Kristof cannot see that distinction, he should take a trip downtown and see the mass grave these evil fanatics created. They weren't killed by the religious right.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2002