Listen to Pierre Read the Columnįew of you know that 10 days after the attempted terrorist attack in Times Square, an actual terrorist attack took place in Jacksonville when a firebomb exploded outside the city’s biggest mosque, the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida. It’s a different story when tables are reversed and Muslims are the target. That’s what happens when the dimwits are Muslim and the targets are recognizably American. The political consequences of the attack continue, with the usual other radicals in Congress and their amen rabble on Fox seizing on the plot to declare America under attack and constitutional guarantees of due process an even bigger threat to America than terrorism.Īmazing how easily one-off dimwits with bombs can scare off the country that likes to think of itself as the strongest on the planet. The hurricane of media attention lasted about two weeks. The man was caught 56 hours after the bomb was discovered. It was an attempted terrorist attack by a less than competent 30-year-old finance professional, an American citizen of Pakistani origin who’d recently lost his Connecticut home to foreclosure and gone radical. (Wikimedia Commons)Īs we all know, the first of this month a crude bomb almost went off in Times Square. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Islam's third-holiest spot, has had its share of attackers and would-be destroyers.
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