Democracy dies in delusional leftist lies, stupidity and bizarre conspiracy theories.
The media gleefully fastened on to the death of Nabra Hassanen as their evidence for Islamophobia. But then, as it often does, reality intervened. And the motive for Nabra Hassanen's death turned out to be road rage and her killer proved to be an illegal alien from El Salvador.
Petula Dvorak's Washington Post piece is a bizarre exercise in trying to somehow salvage some agenda from the murder employing reasoning usually only spotted at 9/11 Truther events and by small children trying to explain what ate their homework.
The best part of an utterly insane article might be Dvorak's contention that...
And because Nabra is also African-American, born in America to Egyptian immigrants, African Americans wondered whether this is another instance of them being targeted because of their race.
Nabra Hassanen is Egyptian Arab.
So the working theory here is that Torres, her killer, hated the entire continent of Africa. His Anti-Africanism was there irrespective of race. He hated white South Africans as much as he hated Arab Egyptians. And his hatred was so attuned that he could spot that Hassanen's father had come from Egypt at a brief glance.
It makes perfect sense. #ContinentLivesMatter
Then Dvorak tries to explain that it's still a hate crime because murder is motivated by hate. Isn't it?
"There is no doubt that hitting a 17-year-old girl with a bat and dumping her body in a pond would be an act born of hate..."
As opposed to the average murder which springs from love.
"Nabra was killed by some kind of toxic mix of hate and rage, there's no doubt about that — even if it doesn't meet the legal definition of a hate crime."
Usually people kill those they hate, rather than those they like. This is a solid argument for prosecuting all murders as hate crimes.
I wish the Washington Post and its stable of lunatics, liars and idiots well in championing this new policy agenda.