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To: Land Shark who wrote (891396)	10/3/2015 6:57:33 PM
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We now know that Chris Harper-Mercer, the man who shot 19 people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, killing 9,asked each of his victims-to-be in turn “Are you Christian?” The nine who answered affirmatively received a fatal bullet to the head. The ten who did not were wounded in the leg. Suppose that the shibboleth Harper-Mercer had used was instead the question “Are you Muslim?” How would the response from the media have differed? Better yet, how would Barack Obama have reacted? Certainly, the president’s self-admitted politicization of the tragedy, including his reliance on what Hans Bader calls his “gun control fable,” would have remained a fixture of his comments. But there would have also been some reference to the religion of the victims and an appeal to Americans to fight back against the scourge of Islamophobia. Imagine if the Oregon shooter had asked his victims-to-be, ‘Are you Muslim?’

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