Some terrorists are blonde and blue eyed!

I'm still amazed at how if there is a bomb, people in the West assume the terrorists are Arabs or Muslims. This mindset already existed before 9/11 but it was cemented after the attacks on the World Trade Center that somehow only Muslims can do this kind of damage.

It's actually quite amusing in some ways. Al Queda writes a rant about something they are against and the West shakes in their boots, fearing 9/11 or worse. No wonder Bin Laden spent the last couple of years comfortable in a house in Pakistan, all he had to do to make others fear him was write the odd text.

The sad part is, while we're all busy looking for the bad Arabs under our beds, we're going to completely miss local grown terrorism. The Norwegian [I'm purposefully not saying his name not to give him more glory], was anti-Muslim and pro-Israel. He was also blonde and blue-eyed, and as an article said, a poster boy for the Olympics, not for a terrorist! The guy responsible for the Oklahoma bombings, was a home grown terrorist as well. They aren't  the first or the last.

An opinion piece on AlJazeera goes more into detail and shares my sentiments.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, no one group has only bad guys and no one group has only good guys. You can find some bad Christians and good Christians, same with Muslims, Jews, Hindus and any other religion you can name.  Each group has their fundamentalists, conservatives, extremists as well as the more tolerant, middle of the road more liberal types.