New York’s Empire State Building is being illuminated with green lights, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid, which itself is held on the day of the new moon that marks the end of Ramadan.
This sounds like a practical joke, but it’s not. Judging from the way that everyone from President Bush on down to American public school teachers and administrators have behaved since 9/11, Islam has become the de facto official religion of the United States of America. You may think that OBL (or the random Arab that played OBL) was whistling Abu Dhabi when he (or his stunt double) claimed that it was AQ’s goal to convert the white world to Islam — looks like he’s succeeding.
I’m not a big fan of what one respondent to a piece I wrote in another medium some time back terms the “warthog from hell,” but when the AQ/OBL gang pulled 9/11, I interpreted it for what it was, not an attack on a city whose politicians I mostly disagree with, but a full-frontal racial assault and hate crime against whites. However, it doesn’t appear that Gothamers have learned anything. If another such terrorist attack happens there, in my mind, it’s their own fault. I would rather then hang a Red Sox banner from the ESB.
