Today’s bombing of the Boston Marathon could be attributed to other actors, say a Brevick-type group on the Far Right, or perhaps two or three lunatics with obvious mental health issues and a slew of yellow and red flags scattered through their employment records or rap sheets, but this evening it is not looking good for that.

And forget about whacked-out conspiracy false-flag theorizing.

That’s been done with the 911-Truth brigades and, well, “everyone knows” it was the CIA, the Mossad, and so on.

Sorry.

This one looks like the London bombing of 2005.

How “un-Islamic” the good will castigate the evildoers in the name of Islam.

And yet how perfectly “Islamist” will cry the “Islamophobes”, except the same under that false banner may well, or as well, be comprised of everyone not so hep on the “Islamization” of our one marvel of a blue planet.

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

Yusuf Ali’s translation of Sura 9:29 (as presented by Wikipedia) would seem hard to parse as peaceful.

“Fight those who believe not . . .”  seems a far cry from “One scholar is more powerful against the devil than one thousand worshipers.”

I have seen Muslims baited by Christian zealots with “9:29” precisely because it appears — is it not? — a belligerent and elevating statement for Muslims and a belittling, demeaning, and enslaving piece of work for all who are not Muslim, including (“even if they are the People of the Book”) Jews and by extension Christians . . . ethical humanists, Buddhists, agnostics, Hindus, animists, atheists, and so on.

Here is Wikipedia’s “List of Religions and Spiritual Traditions”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions

Travel down that list.

Populate it.

I don’t know if it’s a complete list.

I hope that it is not, and that the world’s cultural library is even larger than that represented.

Nonetheless, for those who set off bombs today — and I apologize if it turns out a conspiracy on the part of, say, beer guzzling loons who hate these awful, ambitious, health nuts who run in marathons and probably drink carrot juice on the side — most of the world on that list must disappear before they can be . . . acceptable to God?

Qualified for heaven?

Privileged by the awesome accident of their birth?

Three dead, more than 130 injured, and many of the injuries have been horrific.

Lost limbs.

A theft of body parts.

I know my Muslim friends in Pakistan and elsewhere know this suffering as their own because it is or has been closer to their homes in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa than it has to ours in the west, and they condemn it.

Not Islamic.

And yet . . . .

Islamic duplicity — see Raymond Ibrahim’s “How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism”.  Middle East Forum, Winter, 2010 — has for a while been killing Muslims around the world, and here at the American doorstep, the advocates of the “Religion of Peace” seem unable to call 9:29 the guarantor of misery for generations past and future.

A madman wants to destroy the world, for that is the sort of thing a mad man may wish to witness in the working of his will, and there seem to be ever present small legions, generally, that either cannot conceptualize their own manipulation and armor themselves against it, or, well aware of it, go along with their own duping, buying into the evil, expressing self-righteous outrage against others for what they have been twisted into themselves.

Atlas may not shrug as much as Obama in the presence of this monster that demands among the good and the peaceful from every walk a higher level of cooperation in getting around it, isolating it, and doing away with it.

The monster demands of its intended meal a higher level of honesty and integrity in all matters, such that prettier words are not used to cover over uglier ones.

I don’t know if dissimulation is possible over 9:29, but this seems to be what it has called for:

“In the aftermath of two bomb blasts near the finish line of Monday’s Boston Marathon, Boston police confirm three dead and scores injured, according to Cheryl Fiandaca, head of media relations for the Boston police. Local hospitals report at least 141 patients are being treated for wounds, including at least 17 in critical condition and 25 others in serious condition. At least eight of the injured are children.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-things-we-know/index.html

“Fight those who . . .”

Does “fight” mean “speak out against”?

Would that be enough?

Does “fight those” mean “struggle against”?  Or “express dislike for those who . . . . ?

After the Boston Marathon Bombing — again, my apologies if all of this turns out the work of the CIA, MI5, and Mossad (we’ll know in about 75 years, I guess) — will the rest of the world expect Americans and others to care about sloppy drone attacks against the mentality-bearing humans that have it in their hearts to do these things themselves?

The many investigative services and the White House don’t want to stoke the fires, — and truth to tell, empirical method may slow things down some, but it’s a tractor in first gear: once it gets going, it will get to and roll over everything in its way — but I’m going to go ahead and call this a “black day for Islam in America” because our early judgment as Americans has been irreversibly trained.

We read the Jihad news from Pakistan and other places around the world, and, even if reluctantly, we have come to expect it here, watch for it, and call it too soon, or perhaps too late.

Today will divide and polarize many people but with the broad exception of those who whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or other find themselves naturally and with finality moved on to something like the same page, God fearing or not, believing or not, but knowing if they do not now work together, the beautiful world they share together will come apart — and that, God forbid it comes to pass, won’t be the fault of “the Islamists”.