Portrait of "Hater" who vandalized Islamic School

 

I agree with this point in your editorial  today ("A hateful Act", Feb.18) on the vandalism of the Islamic School of Rhode Island: any attempt to blame one billion Muslims for this is deeply unjust.

My image of this guy (it must be a guy!) is right out of Harper's Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." He is not a professional terrorist. He is not a professional anything. He is a poorly educated, ignorant, unemployed drunk. He does not write letters-to-the-editor. He has his own graffiti skills. I give you our very own West Warwick version of Bob Ewell– "the white trash" of Harper Lee's novel.

This sort of EVIL has deep social roots. Bob Ewell was also a victim of hopeless poverty, unemployment, and ignorance. He found SOMEBODY to look down on from his own hellish pit. (just a guess, of course).

                                                                                                                                        

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