Now we Know!

The terrorist attacks in London have finally put the lie to the proposition that violent Muslims are merely reacting to a life of deprivation. People who go to bed hungry every night are understandably violent, they have told us. If the West had not been so oppressive, had just given these people an equal chance, there would be no such thing as radical Islam.

But, in London, the perpetrators were medical professionals... well educated, affluent people. These educated, successful people were driven, not by hunger or other miseries of poverty, but by their distorted belief that all people must bow to Sharia law. The ridiculous rules set forth, they tell us, by some ancient crackpot who went out from the city to sit in a cave all day where the truth was revealed to him.

How anyone could take the Koran seriously is a puzzle to a thinking person. But, the actions of many American Muslims is a puzzle to me. How can someone with a great talent - one that makes you rich - discard the name given by their mother and drop Cassius Clay in favor of Muhammad Ali. Or swap Lou Alcinder for Kareem Abdul Jabbar? (Wrong spelling? What matter?)

It is one thing to go to church on Sunday and rededicate yourself to your belief in an ancient writing. After all, most who do go back to their worldly ways on Monday morning. But when your devotion to ancient nonsense is so great that you change your name to some mouthful of jibberish, you are, indeed, marching to the beat of a different drummer, and I do not trust you.

Every devout Muslim is suspect. Profiling? You bet. Who would have thought that the MD who treated your child is scheming to find a way to blow him/her and you to bits?