By Andrew L. Jaffee

In a brief glimmer of unity, Seattle’s Muslim and Jewish communities are taking the moral high ground in reacting to Naveed Afzal Haq’s rampage through a Jewish community center, where he killed one and injured five. A picture is worth a thousand words, from the Seattle Times:

Muslims reach out: Temple B’nai Torah congregation member Lynda Matthias, left, walks to the temple with Farida Hakim, middle, who came with a friend to leave flowers in honor of the shooting victims. The shooting is “all the more reason that we work together for peace and justice,” Hakim said.

Seattle District Court Judge Linde has charged Haq with “state murder and attempted-murder charges rather than federal hate-crime laws,” and has set his bail at $50 million, meaning he’ll never see the light of day.

One question I have: Why is this heinous act not being prosecuted as a hate crime? Is moral relativism starting to creep into the picture?

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Related: United States, Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism, Judaism

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