I know that Michael Monsoor was Catholic, and I’m not even a factchecker for the NY Times. It’s not the mistake itself that annoys me the most, it’s the fact that the Times is using someone’s sacrifice to score some cheap diversity points. Look, I’m sorry that so many Muslims are determined to act like assholes and kill people, but perhaps the Muslim community should take this up with the firebreathing imams and the radicals they legitimize, not whine at the Newspaper of Record and attempt to co-opt the sacrifice made by a Navy SEAL Medal of Honor recipient. When I read about Michael Monsoor, I was less concerned about his religion and more impressed by his extraordinary valor. (Well, I shouldn’t say “extraordinary” since SEALs are just kind of wired that way, apparently.) I suppose that makes me a woefully unsophisticated and naive hillbilly or something.
Michael Monsoor is a hero, the kind of hero we don’t have enough of in this age. Nidal Hasan doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same article as Monsoor, let alone the same sentence.
Slightly off topic: Do you know how I know that those Big Brother fearing, conspiracy-theorist, NSA-hating Truthers out there are full of it? Hasan is awake. If we had a Mitch Rapp or a Devlin, there’d have been a 30cc air bubble in Hasan’s IV.
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