“I instantly thought of my friend who ran the Marathon upon learning of the explosions. However, concern for loved ones was superseded by a distinctly Arab and Muslim-American psychosis: “Please do not let the culprit be Arab or Muslim.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201341681629153634.html

I picked up on this theme with Facebookers reporting similar statements on Twitter.

Take it is a great sign.

From The Awesome Conversation —

“Please don’t be a Muslim” is a good statement. It tells that the “heat” is on Islam, put there by news of the same stupid things — assassinations and bombings — daily across a host of Muslim-majority states, and this time some — the general targets of the anti-Jihad — are begging out. Want the next step, e.g., joining the ranks of helpful volunteers (that’s probably already happening, I’m not sure anyone’s looking), make them welcome in their repudiation of Islamic motivation as regards this sweeping class of related political crime.

America’s governments will try to slow the pace on the Boston Marathon Massacre, but they have been handed a big wrench for dividing Muslims who no longer wish to be “those Muslims” from Muslims who would — and do — plan and execute such crimes.

Sura 9:29 will go, sooner or later, and much too congruent with it, and this expression — “may it not be one associated with me” — seems a first step on the path to it.

We all know the culprits might be beer guzzling loons with a jones for the jogging set; angry taxpayers making a statement on the due date; black powder gun nuts getting a little attention.

Maybe.

But those have not been making the news daily, weekly, along the arcs of the Islamic Small Wars from Afghanistan to Somalia.