My friend and fellow Law Tribune columnist Norm Pattis has written lately on how the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino drove him both to consider not representing Muslims and to buy and learn to shoot a pistol. It’s unfortunate that smart people like him can get so rattled by unexpected and threatening events that they start saying and doing ill-considered things.
Let’s talk about the whole Muslim/Islam thing first. There are 1.6 billion people in the world who identify as Muslim. Some were born to the faith; others adopted it. Some are devout; others casual. Islam no more advocates terror than does Christianity. The Christian Bible actually has twice the number of exhortations to violence as does the Quran. A lot more blood has been spilled in Muslim vs. Muslim strife than Muslim vs. Christian or Muslim vs. “Western civilization.”
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