What a fucking day. This email made me happy I’m drinking at my desk.

Spencer,
You are doing everything to protect Islam from the shootings at Fort Hood.  The reason so many centrist/independants like myself are starting to lean towards Foxnews, etc….is because you guys refuse to be fair.  The hypocrasy is openly blatant now.  You know if this was a story of a christian psychiatrist killing opening fire on a group of homosexuals, the judgement would be swift.  But that doesn’t happen.  Fact is, every christian majority nation has freedom of religion and freedom of speech.  NO islamic majority nation has freedom of religion and freedom of speech.  If you would just be honest, more would listen.  Independant americans are not fanatics, it’s just the media has moved so far left, we look that way.

Some of those Islamic majority nations respecting freedom of speech and freedom of religion include Turkey and, to a much lesser extent, Indonesia. India isn’t Muslim-majority, but it’s a democracy with, if I’m not mistaken, the world’s greatest number of Muslims.

And actually, I don’t “know” that if a Christian psychiatrist opened fire on “a group of homosexuals” — what a charming analogy from this asshole — “the judgment would be swift.” Instead, what I do know is that if someone decided to say there was something inherently bigoted about Christianity from the fact of such a disgusting occurrence, I would say that the utterance reflected more on the person issuing it than anything else. It is not my job to “protect Islam.” It is my job to adjudicate between what is valid and what is base; and between what is intelligent and what is extremely motherfucking stupid, venal and, yes, bigoted.

These fucking debater’s points, I tell you. I put up a plea earlier today for people to stop their euphemism. At least have the courage to say why you think Islam is so noxious. Instead, we get what we always get: anti-anti-racism. Somehow it all goes back to how comfortable the privileged wish to continue being. I don’t typically let hate mail bother me, but — God, this day. This is what people take away from a tragedy like Ft. Hood.

Taking a break, I saw Ta-Nehisi Coats posted this great DJ Honda/Mos Def song from forever ago, so I relaxed with the beer my office is letting me drink at work and heard Mr. Definitely say:

This thing called rhyming no different from coal mining/ we both on assignment to unearth a diamond.

It sounds beautiful, and he delivers it with such expertise that your head naturally nods, but think about that for one second. I’m neither a coal miner nor a rapper, but it’s impossible to believe that any coal miner sees himself in Mos’ craft. And I’m pretty sure that the purpose of coal mining isn’t actually to extract diamonds. Though I guess Mos Def is using the slang “black diamonds” to denote coal, so I suppose I must rule that part in bounds.

To Blue Texan’s post I can only add Fox’s Brian Kilmeade:

“Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army officers — anybody enlisted?”

And possible GOP House candidate Allen West:

“….the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military.”

I would urge people to read David Kilcullen’s book The Accidental Guerrilla and think very, very hard about where collective guilt can lead.