Don't Fire Until You See Their Membership Cards?

Call this the week of the videotapes. Before the Bin Laden tape came out there was another piece of jihadist propoganda to examine. Especially telling is this little gem, "allah willing, the streets of America will run red with blood, matching drop for drop the blood..." The various news agencies were all in a dither when it first came out in that they could not verify whether it was from al-Quaeda.

Um... why does that matter? When some people produce a tape threatening to kill us in the name of islam, why should we care whether they belong to al-Quaeda? If they don't, should we not seek them out? Do we only care if people with al-Quaeda membership cards want to kill us? Al-Quaeda is a convenient shorthand for our enemies, but the jihad is certainly not limited to al-Quaeda.

I can hear the crickets chirping. I can hear the coyotes yipping. I cannot hear the "peaceful muslims" denouncing this garbage.