Every time there’s a horrific attack on innocents by guys who scream “Allahu Akbar” while they’re shooting or bombing we can count on immediate cries from the right wing and even from the more sensible middle of “Where are all the responsible Muslims? Why don’t they condemn these actions right now?”

Leaving aside the fact that Fox News rarely shows or tells its viewers about all the Muslim clerics that do condemn terrorist activities immediately, I’m curious. Where was the demand that millions of Christians go into the streets to protest the murder of Dr. George Tiller by a rabid pro-life activist? Where was the widespread condemnation of all those people who helped Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph hide from the Feds for as long as he did? Where were the street protests when a white supremacist shot up a Sikh temple in Wisconsin? Why did no one call for mass protests against each one of the several hundred arson, bombing and property crimes that have occurred at abortion providers’ clinics?

Why, for that matter, is the white guy who shot up that movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012 not called a terrorist, whereas any brown-skinned shooter or bomber automatically is?

As Charlie Pierce frequently says, this is not About Race because nothing ever is About Race.