SPEAK UP FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

Everyone, by now, is familiar with the name of the teenager gunned down in Sanford, Florida on February 26th: Trayvon Martin.  They know the name of his killer, too.

Shaima Alawadi’s name is one most people have not heard of, however. Nor does anyone, yet, know who killed her, either.

Hopefully, that will change over the next few days.



Trayvon Martin



Shaima was a 32-year-old mother of five who was found brutally beaten with a tire iron in her own home,Wednesday, next to a note saying “go back to your country.”



She was taken off life support three days later, and died, Saturday.

What Trayvon and Shaima have in common wasn’t their religious faith. It wasn’t their political convictions, if any, either.

Their bond was that they were both murdered - in 21st century America - in the name of right-wing, conservative, racist hate.

Michael Savage, Mark Levine, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Don Imus, Sean Hannity, and all of the other talking heads on right-wing radio… they all played their part as accomplices to these two vicious crimes just as surely as did the real perpetrators behind the heinous murders of Trayvon and Shaima.

Oh... to be sure, no one from Fox News passed around a tire iron to bash Shaima over the head with, nor did anyone from the EIB Radio Network buy the two bullets George Zimmerman used to irrigate Trayvon Martin: but they're accomplices, nonetheless.

Conservative “entertainers” have made it their mission to pit one group of American citizens against another, and only the most naive of political observers could fail to see the obvious consequence of proclaiming that any group of Americans was a "threat" to the existence of any other, or to the existence of the nation, and not realize that different people would deal with that "threat" in different ways.


George Zimmerman dealt with the threat posed by Trayvon Martin, a black kid with the audacity to walk around in 'his' neighborhood without Mr. Zimmerman's permission.

Trayvon, after all, was - to Zimmerman - just another “f***ing coon” whom George feared would, “get away,” like "they always" do, with whatever imaginary crimes George Zimmerman presumed Trayvon was somehow guilty of.


Shaima Alawadi

Shaima’s still-at-large killer(s) dealt with her, too.


She was, after all, just another hijab-wearing Muslim "terrorist" living amongst us, praying to the 'wrong' God, and justly deserving to be beat down and snuffed out.

But, then, Shaima wasn't a Muslim "terrorist" and Trayvon wasn't a neighborhood threat.

Shaima's conservative 'crime' was to wear her hijab, as a practising Muslim, in public; Trayvon's 'crime' was to wear a hoodie while being black.

Conservatives will - one and all - blame the lone, solitary, lunatic for these race-based homicides...

They will even blame liberal society and liberal social mores... right-wing talking heads are already attempting to assassinate the character of Trayvon.

Michele Malkin's conservative website, Twitchy, ran a picture of George Zimmerman in a suit and tie next to what they claimed was a picture of a rather thuggish Trayvon Martin with no shirt and sagging pants.

One problem: The kid in the picture wasn't Trayvon.

Glen Beck's website, The Blaze, suggested - without anything to support their allegation - that Trayvon may have been guilty of “armed robbery,” “arson,” or even “kidnapping.”

Since none of America's conservatives will speak out, the duty falls, by default, to the rest of us.

We need not mince words - it is vital that we speak clearly and succinctly but most importantly, firmly - and at every opportunity: Conservatism must change.

It must evolve. It should no longer be socially (or morally) acceptable for any one group of Americans to preach existential extinction for any other group of law-abiding citizens with impunity.

Conservative hate is a self-fulfilling prophesy that is destroying the very fabric of our society.

To believe otherwise is to help pass around the nails for the next coffin in which the next Shaima Alawadi or Trayvon Martin will be buried in.