A peculiar RantWoman eye reflection on the #OrlandoShooting shooter Omar Mateen trying to sign up for mutually antagonistic islamicist radicals while busy wrecking havoc with his assault rifle:
Long ago and Far Away, okay in graduate school in IN, RantWoman spent a good deal of extracurricular time organizing speakers and trying to encourage the Indiana Congressional delegation to stop voting for the Contra War
RantWoman lived in Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Lee Hamilton's district. One day RantWoman got a phone call or an email, she does not remember which, from some human rights activists in Baltimore: Hi, we just sat in at your Congressman's office! Wouldn't you like to issue a statement of some kind in support.
NO, Actually we would NOT. Compared to the REST of the IN delegation Cong. Hamilton was the best IN could do for sanity about the issue. No, we really did not think sitting in would be on point. Yes, OF COURSE, he chaired the Forign Affairs Committee so he was fair game, but....
RantWoman does not remember exactly what sort of statement her local group issued but RantWoman thinks the statement probably reiterated something about our concerns and some of the talking points raised by those who sat in.
RantWoman has been thinking about that story today and wondering whether any of the various strands of Islam contacted by the #PulseShooting killer Omar Mateen have any sympathizers with kind of similar reactions. Please excuse RantWoman for not keeping the names of the various strands straight; RantWoman trusts her readers will get the idea.
Hello Al-Nusrah, I wanna sign on....
uh...
Hello, Taliban, I wanna sign on....
uh.....we're kinda busy getting our butts kicked right now....
Hello ISIS, I wanna sign on...
Uh, hmmmm, wife-beating, heavily armed, virulent homophobe and willing to act during Ramadan? Sure plenty of other faith traditions manage to work in some of the above but... Okay, let's see if we can fit you in....
and a Blessed Ramadan to all.
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