Today is a sad day for Seattle.

Friday night there was a shooting at the Jewish Federation Building in Seattle. A muslim man, apparently spewing anti-Semite slurs shot and killed one woman and injured 4 others.

My friend, who is a leader among the youth of the Northwest Jewish Association or something (forgive my ignorance, but its really hard to keep it all straight sometimes) was totally freaked out.

He has every right to be. I'm proud of local law enforcement for treating this as a serious hate crime, but they aren't running around pointing fingers at general groups.

(For the record, this isn't an Anti-Muslim rant. Some of my best friends have been Mluslim and i'm definately glad to be their friend. Just so we're clear before I get to the meat of my rant.)

What I'm most concerned about is that the national news coverage of this. I could find more articles about Mel Gibson's DUI charge then about a hate crime shooting that killed one person and injured four. I mean, seriously. This is a crime that is directly linked to national politics (even though there's no links to terrorist organizations as of yet) and yet no one is talking about it. Sure, an article here or there but what happens when we don't give the story the coverage it deserves? We forget that Israel and the Jewish people are the victims, not the bullys. Between the Holocaust and the Hezbollah, Semites have had their share of being kicked around.

Don't even get me started on the history of the jewish people circa ancient Rome.

This is so sad.