Rushing to Judgement

Do you remember the story of the murder of a family of Egyptian Coptic Christians in New Jersey two months ago? Right after the killing so many were quick to blame the Muslim community. Why? They based their anger on some suppossed internet "nasty words' between the Egyptian Coptic father and a member of the Muslim community. Of course the accusation was easy - it fit perfectly into a dominant view that Islam is a religion of violence. Talk shows jumped at the possibility and the link. I even think Micheele Malkin jumped on the bandwagon and was getting the hanging rope ready.

But now it seems that two robbers were charged yesterday with the murder. It wasn't a religious battle after all - doh!

When the murder took place, the news was front-page material, top story on TV news. Now the truth is relegated to top story of "The Metro Section" of the NY Times (the "B" section). I wonder where it was in the NY Post? I wonder if Malkin even mentions this story and offers an apology for her rush to judgement? I wonder if the rightwing bloggers offer a similar apology?

I won't hold my breath waiting for it. They are all on to bigger and better things - Syria's involvement in the suicide bomb assassination in Lebanon - not that they rushed to judgement then either. Right?