Everybody's favorite terror-loving comedian, Ray Hanania, is not just coasting on all the free publicity that he scammed off of Jackie Mason. Hanania continues to troll for laughs on the pages of his own blog.
Stealing a line from the gag-writer who penned the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hanania jokes that the U.S. Congress is "Israeli Occupied Territory" (ROTFL, Ray)
Then he gets serious when he commemorates the mass murders of last Sept. 11:
I also hope we remember the up to 17 other Americans who were murdered after Sept. 11 in post-Sept. 11 hate related crimes. They are American too and their killers are as much terrorists as Osama Bin Laden.Ray's list of these victims is here. From the available information, it's not clear whether or not all of the people on his list are indeed Americans, or what the motivations of their killers were (several of the victims were neither Arab nor Muslim, but Indian Sikhs and Hindus). Not that that should matter. Every murder is a hate crime, the survivors deserve our sympathy and the killers should be brought to justice. And are these killers just like Osama Ben Laden? Osama Ben-Laden spent tens of millions of dollars a year, organizing a force of hundreds of people to commit crimes around the world, and has managed to kill thousands of innocent people and cause billions of dollars in economic damage. The murderers of those 17 seem to be isolated individuals, all of whom are probably too stupid to tell the difference between a Hindu and a Moslem. Are they like Osama Ben-Laden? Only if Ray Hanania is the reincarnation of Donald Duck.
But let's proceed on Hanania's terms and honor the victims of ethnically-motivated murders since last Sept. 11. For some reason Hanania chose to exclude the victims of Mohammed Hedayet's ethnically-driven shooting spree at the LAX El-Al counter. Now isn't that funny? Not funny ha-ha, but funny peculiar.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 27, 2002 07:02 AM