The dead terrorist’s wife described her son, one of the shooters, as a “good boy.” Why? Because he didn’t drink. He didn’t smoke.
His participation in the attempted annihilation of Jews did not, in her mind, disqualify him from being “good.”
That single quote tells you more about the problem than a thousand euphemisms ever could.
People are not born believing Jews deserve to die. They are taught. They are trained. They are saturated in a theology that frames Jews as eternal enemies—corrupt, treacherous, cursed—and that casts violence against them as obedience to God. Over time, the horror fades. The killing becomes normalized
Naming Islam—plainly and without modifiers—forces a reckoning many would rather avoid. It means admitting that this problem is not limited to “extremists” who misread the faith, but to interpretations of Islam that are widely taught, funded, and defended. It means confronting the uncomfortable reality that religious ideas, not just socioeconomic grievances, drive this violence.
Obey
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