New victims

Yesterday, Brad at A Little Bit Left reminded us of an important point: we're all worse off when people point fingers at Muslims and Arabs as a whole in response to the acts of a few fanatics.

Unfortunately, the attacks have already started in the UK:

The first indications of a possible backlash against British Muslims came yesterday with reports of suspicious fires at a mosque in Leeds and a Sikh temple in Kent, as police confirmed that tension around the country was increasing...

Police were classing as actual bodily harm two attacks on Muslims in the past 48 hours and at least two Muslim organisations have been subjected to "malicious communications", with one, the MCB, receiving more than 30,000 hate messages via email, which crashed its server.

While the individual Muslims involved were the first to be lose out, we're all ultimately worse off as a result of the intolerance and the resulting polarization.