Boy, the blame game has gotten rather bizarre. Not only are prominent lawmakers blaming guns for the [Orlando] killings, but President Obama went so far as to imply that the shootings are the fault of Americans who believe that homosexual behavior is a sin.Of course, it could never be the fault of Muslims who believe homosexual behavior is a sin.
Senator John McCain believes the President’s foreign policy is at fault. The New York Times blames Republicans.
Don’t believe me? Here’s what the New York Times editorial writers said: “Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians.”
Let me interpret that for you. By “Republican,” they mean people who hold traditional values — mostly Christians.
But Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, was neither a Republican nor a Christian. He was a registered Democrat and a Muslim.
But all of the blame that is being thrown around — especially by the Left and the mainstream media — has had some disturbing effect.
A recent Gallup poll shows that only 48% of Americans believe the Orlando massacre was primarily an act of Islamic terrorism. I say “only” because it was such a blatant act of Islamic terrorism.
Mateen, himself, said he was doing it in the name of ISIS. During the massacre, he repeatedly shouted, “Allahu akbar!” (Allah is Greatest) He was a regular on radical Islamic websites. From inside the nightclub, he tweeted that America should expect more terrorist acts in the coming days.
But the President and the media have done such a good job of muddying the waters that Gallup says that 41% of Americans do not see it as terrorism, but “gun violence.”
That gives me the distinct impression that too many Americans are either incredibly naive or too lazy to think for themselves.
transmitted by Hal Lindsey – 6/24/2016
