Something predictable is happening again. Most Republicans are trying to gloss over the narrative of the Orlando genocidal massacre. They choose to ignore the "gay" angle, while the usual NRA Rambos erase both the victims and the weapons which were bought to perpetrate this Yekateringburg redux.
Trump tries to benefit from this "foretold" tragedy; Clinton and Sanders utter the expected condolences; the President remains "sober" for now. It is as if the indignation would have been more shared if the massacre had happened anywhere but in a gay disco. The shock is genuine but the gay component creates (still) unease for some.
The perpetrator--homophobic, wife-beater, murky Islamist paranoid--will only have succeeded in further alienating Muslims from the mainstream, and making the good pay for the bad. The bill for the more "paradoxical" aspects of a religion, frozen in non-interpretation, should not be sent to the genuine believers. Let's not ostracize, but come together. In doing so we will pay the proper homage to the victims. The crime had "one" target but the victims, gay or not, stood for civilization, which ultimately embraces all.
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