From Andrew and the Dish:
Bloggers have had a great time exposing the inconsistency on the pro-torture right. Why should Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab be tortured as an enemy combatant while Richard Reid was prosecuted by civilian authorities under Bush? Isn’t the unconscious truth obvious? One has an English name; the other has a very foreign-sounding Muslim name. One was born in Bromley and one in Kenya. One is “us”; the other is “them”. And it is much easier to torture them than to torture us. It just seems to me that this distinction has no moral, legal or strategic basis.
There are quite a few inconsistencies with the Shoe bomber case and the Underwear bomber case– beginning with the hypocritical reaction on the right toward the Obama administration’s response to Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s attempt at mass murder– and their muted response to Richard Reid’s attack at the time. Can one make a case for bigotry in this instance? I wouldn’t rule it out. We hate Muslims. We hate dark-skinned Muslims even more. Hey, I have an idea; why don’t we just profile young Muslims in America?
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