Yesterday TownHall.com published my column on the Burlington Township (N.J.) school district’s training session that involved a “terrorist attack” on the school by Christians who were supposedly angry that a student was expelled for praying, so they came in and killed kids and took hostages. An excerpt:
… imagine for a moment the confused frustration of being a leftist academic. You’ve spent your entire academic career warning friends, family, colleagues, and anyone else unfortunately in earshot of the dangers posed by fundamentalist religious zealots. … And then one day it happened ?fundamentalist religious extremists actually attacked your country. They killed your fellow countrymen for being infidels not prostrate before their god. …
But ? O cruel irony! ? the zealots weren’t the rich, white, heterosexual, Christian dads terrorizing New York City as they do on “Law & Order.” Instead, they were Islamic radicals; i.e., minorities. Non-white peoples from the Middle East. Part of the Repressed Other.
They were, in a word, multicultural.
