It's tragic, but not unique

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Michelle has been up in arms about the apparent tracking of outspoken Christians online by Islamists. Today's "Blog Post of the Day" delivers a spooky view of the world:

Jeremy Reynalds has been targeted for death by Islamists for keeping on doing what I used to do....

Theo Van Gogh was murdered by Islamists for making a film. I'm a filmmaker....

[T]he Armanious family was slaughtered, probably by Islamists, for being outspoken Christians. I'm an outspoken Christian.

All of these things happened, not in Baghdad or Fallujah or in some tribal territory in Pakistan, but in the West. Van Gogh was killed in Amsterdam, a note explaining his murder pinned to his dead chest with a Bowie knife. The Armanious family was murdered just up the road in New Jersey, from the parents to the children. And Reynalds, an online journalist who criticizes Islamists, finds himself targeted now.

This is what the war is all about. Even if you're not an online journalist, even if you're not a filmmaker or a Christian, you too will eventually run afoul of these caliphascists if you don't help resist and defeat them now.

All three incidents are tragic, and scary.

But let's not forget others who publish addresses of and brutally murder people they disagree with.