Derangement Factor

As a society engaged in a social
compact of polite acceptance of
the other we hesitate to question
evidence before our very eyes that
not all can be shrugged away as mere
coincidence. There comes a time when
it is folly to turn our eyes away, shut
our ears and maintain a tight grip on
thoughts which, once emitted, identify
the speaker as 'Islamophobic'. There
must be some reason born of tribal and
religious pathology that in a society
where adherents of Islam reside
the sinister echoes of social conflict
rise to infiltrate public consciousness
and when sympathy is detected to a
hidden message whose purpose is to
slander and to incite hatred, there on the
cusp of ideological action is a hate
crime in the making. But don't stop there
peruse the daily news; unfailingly names
identifying heritage and faith are linked
to public crimes within societies that
have generously opened doors to those
who too often are incapable of full
integration, who spurn the laws of the
land, and who yearn to inflict upon
others their beliefs. Polite and accepting
as we are in the pride of pluralism and
equality, such unworthy thoughts as
hindsight offers linked to observation
must be set aside at risk of censure.