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This should have been a good week for the Islamophobia industry.

There was a mosque arson attack in Belgium (?) in which an Imam died and al-Jizya is reporting that in France a man entered a mosque with a baseball bat and beat one worshiper to death.

Great news, right?

Only one problem; in both attacks the attackers were Muslim. The first story was even published on the madwatch site Loonwatch.com before it was promptly scrubbed after it emerged the attacker was not a non-Muslim but a radical Sunni Muslim attacking a Shi'ite mosque in a sectarian attack.

And in the second story, the bat wielding attacker is actually a Muslim with a history of "psychological problems".

But that brings up back to the first story (the second story can be ignored as the actions of a guy with a few screws loose, you can't blame others for that).

If the attacker had not been a radical Muslim but actually a member of a far right organization, what do you suppose the reaction and analysis of the story would have been? Wouldn't we have faced a barrage of stories of how Muslims are under attack in Europe and face rising Islamophobia?

But the incident itself didn't change. A mosque was attacked and an imam did die. The attacker was even wielding an axe and two knives and appeared motivated by ideology. But because the attacker was a Muslim, the victim merchants couldn't spin their narrative of the attack being a product of anti-Muslim bigotry.

So, where's the constant barrage of stories that Shi'ite Muslims are under attack in Europe and face rising Shi'iteophobia? That would be Islamophobic (recall Ayaan Hirsi Ali was branded a "hatemonger" by one of this forum's Muslim fanatics after stating there was a war against Christians in the Muslim world in an article of hers). The opinion elites can't apply their line of logic to just anything. You see, doing so would be.... logical. But logic isn't a strong suit of fanatics, both Muslim and Leftist.