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Drooling on the Pillow

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

The Murders 

If I'm reading the signals in the papers right the police continue to slide away from the idea of a religious connection in the brutal murder of the Armanious family in Jersey City. Of course they would downplay it anyway as a matter of public order, but I have a feeling they mean it.

I don't know what to think. On the one hand, if there is no religious connection that means that there is a crew of astonishingly violent home invaders loose in my neighborhood. If it is a message to the Coptic community from the Islamists we're in for some rough times in this city. The local Muslim leaders have said all the right things. Whether their condemnations were of the Yasir Arafat type we would probably have to send MEMRI into the mosques to know. The violence at the funeral was a result of some Muslims turning up to show their respects, a decent, but remarkably bone-headed move.

The murders were ritualized and pointedly brutal, but the theft was fairly systematic. It makes you think that if it was Muslims who did it they were conflicted and partially assimilated, trying to prove a point to themselves as much as to the Copts.
Posted by: Sluggo / 10:36 AM
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