“Spike’s Tactical is marketing an assault rifle it claims was ‘designed to never be used by Muslim terrorists,'” orlandosentinel.com reports. “The AR-15 assault rifle is laser-etched on one side with a Knights Templar Long Cross – a symbol of the Christian Crusades to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims – and Psalm 144:1 on the other side: ‘Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.’ The company’s spokesman, former Navy Seal Ben ‘Mookie’ Thomas said he came up with the idea and believes . . .

…no devout Muslim would touch such a weapon. “Off the cuff I said I’d like to have a gun that if a Muslim terrorist picked it up a bolt of lightning would hit and knock him dead,” Thomas said.

“No-muslims allowed” gun ranges and dealers and “pork-laced” ammo and now this “Tactical Crusader.” Enough already. As the Jewish son of a Holocaust victim, as someone who’s watched the unconscionable murders carried out by the ISIS fascists, as someone who has no illusions about Iran, as someone who sees the millions of Syrian Muslims fleeing lethal oppression, as someone who will never forget the horror of 9/11, I get it.

Muslim extremists are our enemies. But, as decorated combat vet Jon Wayne Taylor will attest, not all Muslims answer to that description. Some, in fact, fight alongside us to defend innocent life against extortion, torture and murder.

American firearms industry-related Islamaphobia does nothing to keep right-thinking Muslims on the side of good, and much to drive them into the arms of evil. Stop. Please.