Not terrorism!?! Spare me...

So a guy walks into a Jewish center in Seattle and shoots up the place, killing one woman and wounding five.

Is anyone surprised?

The cops are quick to yell that “this is not terrorism,” presumably to forestall any response from non-Muslims seeking evens. It seems to me to be the very essence of terrorism…using attacks against non-strategic civilian populations to try to effect social change or protest governmental action. The fact that he may not be concretely allied with any well-known terrorist group is beside the point.

His action is the logical result of the fiery rhetoric that passes for religion among many of those who follow Islam. Preach “jihad,” “filthy Jews,” “stolen homeland” and “oppressed Palestinians” often enough, and from an early-enough age, and the results are predictable. Following the Bell Curve theory, some or the more radical, or unstable, practitioners of the religion are going to see their restraint be overcome by their zealousness and go ape-shit.

It was no accident that the guy walked into a JEWISH center, said “I’m a Muslim-American who’s mad,” and opened fire.

It’s no surprise. It’s predictable. It’s inevitable.

And law enforcement officials’ couching all their remarks in vague terms to spare reprisals against the Muslim community is not affecting a cure. Muslims have so far shown themselves unwilling to reign in the rhetoric by their more radical members – if self-policing is not working, perhaps real threats of reprisal from the community-at-large would be more effective?

The longer the radical talk flourishes at the more radical mosques, the higher will be the bill when it’s finally time to confront the threat of radical Islam here. It’s easier to defuse someone who’s spent a year listening to propaganda than someone whose exposure to it began in the cradle.