So this morning I awoke to find out that there was a terrorist attack in Brussels Belgium…

Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting a suspect who fled the air terminal.

Source: Reuters

While it’s terrible and very sad, the typical right wing talking heads are already slamming Syrian refugees, Europe’s response to those refugees and even president Obama before any information comes out.  Why do they jump to conclusions before all the information is available, I mean whenever there’s a mass shooting the same people say how not to politicize the events but when there’s a terrorist attack (and isn’t a mass shooting a terrorist attack too…) then politics is front and center.

Like with Paris back in Nov, people are blaming the Syrian refugees and the perpetrators may indeed be them but I doubt it.  The Paris attacks were done by European nationals who had a legal right to move in and around the EU and I have a feeling the Brussels bombers will be too but time will tell.

ISIS claimed responsibility but I mean they claim responsibility for everything whether they did it, inspired it or didn’t have anything to do with it.  We can’t kill our way out of this problem, you can argue that there may be violence in Islam but I think before we blame the religion, we should take a good look at the history of Western intervention in the middle east.  Frankly I think that’s a huge factor but what do I know, I’m just a regular civilian who looks at history and tries to understand the motives of these attackers.  Perhaps it’s just easier to be intellectually lazy and blame Islam, yeah that’s the in thing now isn’t it.