And I’ll gladly call it terrorism.

FBI officials in Jacksonville, Fla., say they have found the remnants of a pipe bomb used in a possible hate crime at a mosque during evening prayers.

Along with local police, the FBI launched an investigation after an explosion shook the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida at 9:35 p.m. Monday, when approximately 60 people were inside praying. No one was injured.

Two thoughts.

1) Where was the MSM in reporting this story? Why have we not heard about it until now?

2) Whoever did this is no different than Major Hassan, Faisal Shahzad, and the 9/11 attackers. The individual or individuals involved attacked America and its freedoms every bit as surely as those despicable individuals did, and deserve equal opprobrium.

I’ve got serious issues with Islam – I’ve never made any secret of that, and will continue to criticize that faith here and in other spaces in the future. But American values require that we tolerate the right of Muslims to worship freely and to live securely, so long as they follow our nation’s laws. That isn’t merely an aspiration – that is a requirement of the United States Constitution.

Now you will notice that I have not tried to place blame on any particular group with out evidence. I don't know who committed this act of terrorism, or why. Was it the sort by someone who hates Islam? Was it a fake attack designed to garner sympathy, as we have seen elsewhere? If the authorities know the answer, they are not saying.

But there is one other issue that crosses my mind. Already, there have been plenty of attempts by those on the left and Muslim groups to place the blame on "anti-Muslim" "right-wingers. Am I correct in presuming that they will continue to cite this as "right-wing terrorism" despite any evidence of who was guilty (as they did when Shahzad committed his act of terrorism in New York). Will they make the similar claim that a similar attack on Sara Palin's home church in Alaska was "left-wing terrorism", or will they apply a different standard there -- remaining silent as they have since the event happened? Since they are already tossing out charges of hypocrisy against the press and most Americans, I'm just pointing out their own hypocritical stance.