Verb. Sap. Suff.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again with greater emphasis. When Muslims attack and murder Jews, the problem is not anti-semitism. When Muslim Arabs, who are Semites, attack European Jews who are mostly not Semitic, the term becomes ludicrous.

But the problem goes deeper. In a long life, I have met many people afflicted with different motives and varying degrees of dislike for Jews or blacks or whites or Christians. None of them would not only lift a finger to harm a Jewish, black, white, or Christian person, but none would have said or done anything to offend one of them. We all have our prejudices, but only someone twisted by a sick religion or ideology can sink so low as to want to injure or kill complete strangers. In lumping together people who prefer to associate with others of their own background with perverse homicidal maniacs, we are blinding ourselves to the real problem.

If any religion or ideology teaches its followers to harm others simply because they are different, that ideology or religion should be condemned, and if possible, outlawed. This includes Marxist punks who think its amusing to shoot healthcare executives in the back, environmentalist crusaders who disrupt lives, pollute water, and destroy art. Let us start judging people and the movements that they join by their actions and not by the high ideals they profess.