Earlier I read about a group of young men with Muslim names -- Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam -- who went from their hometown of Hayward, California to San Francisco, California for the express purpose of shooting gays with a BB gun, which they already confessed to doing:

Three Hayward men are scheduled to be arraigned on assault and hate crime charges in San Francisco next week for allegedly shooting a man they thought was gay with a BB gun.

The Feb. 26 incident took place at about 10 p.m. outside a Mission District bar at 16th and Guerrero streets, according to police.

The 27-year-old San Francisco man had just come out of the bar when he was shot once in the cheek by suspects in a nearby car, which then drove off, police spokesman Officer Samson Chan said.

The man was not seriously injured and called police, and while officers were interviewing him outside the bar, he spotted the same vehicle again driving by, Chan said.

Police pulled the car over and found three men inside with a "rifle-style" BB gun and a video camera, which investigators later discovered had recorded the shooting, according to Chan.

The three men, Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Sayed Bassam, 21, and Mohammad Habibzada, 24, the driver, were arrested.

According to Chan, they allegedly admitted to the crime.

"The suspects did make a confession, basically stating that they came to San Francisco to target gay people," he said.

Prosecutors have since charged all three men with assault with a deadly weapon, hate crimes and attempted mayhem, a charge relating to the possibility of a disabling or disfiguring injury.

They were returned to custody after prosecutors viewed a video that police found in the three men's car when they were arrested.

Brian Buckelew, spokesman for District Attorney Kamala Harris, said the video showed the 16th Street attack and BB rifle shootings aimed at 11 other men. Police say the video depicts the suspects laughing as they fire.

Imagine, if you will, that the BB gun attackers had been white. Or from Utah. Or from Texas. Or Laramie, Wyoming. What kind of wild adjectives would have been applied? We can only surmise. Editorializing against mainstream Americans who are now out-of-favor by the media (whites, Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons, conservatives) happens everyday on America's front pages and network news programs. But when it comes to Arab/Muslim attackers -- all silence is golden for the American media.

Predictably, the gay media outlets and left-wing bloggers continued their head-in-sand approach in the reporting of this Muslim-on-gay violence in America's homo mecca. The leading gay magazine in America, the Advocate, is silent about the identity or motives of the men aside from their names. Again, one can only imagine if these were "Christianists" on an anti-gay BB gun field trip to San Francisco.

The silence of the Muslim angle is also deafening by left-wing gay bloggers Towleroad, JoeMyGod. But at least they took notice. No such luck over at Pam's House Blend and Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish. You would think Sullivan, who once claimed to recognize the threat to gays by Islamic radicals, would have picked up on the story. Nope. Andrew must not have heard about the incident. Convenient.

I'm not a gay activist, but they are. I would have thought that investigating the motives behind premeditated shootings by young thugs who went out of their way to deliberately target gay men, and who filmed themselves laughing about it might be of more interest to gay journalists, but I guess I'd be wrong.

If these were white middle-class suburban punks, the gay activists would be blaming conservative talk radio or the Mormons, and loudly beating the usual narrative to death.

But as I've pointed out before, if the attackers are Muslims, there's an eerie silence -- as if they think that what happens to gays in Muslim countries could never happen here.

Well guess what? It is happening here.

Muslim "chaplains" at respected American universities advocate death for gays. And Muslim youths think shooting gays is funny.

Like it or not, that's the real (and very ugly) narrative.

But the official gay narrative is "shut up!"

I'm thinking that the Galil triangle (prompted by this post) might be better.

MORE: Out of fairness to some of the San Francisco media, I should point out that at least one of the stories does in fact mention the religious motivation of these shooters:

According to [district attorney's office spokesman] Buckelew, the men are Muslim and prosecutors have evidence they may have committed the alleged acts because they believe homosexuality is against their religion.

MORE: In Norway, the left has shown its true homophobic colors by awarding their "Role Model of the Year" award to a man who "wants a ban on homosexuality, based on the Koran," and who believes the death penalty for gays should be a local option. According to Socialist Left Party leader Stein Petter Lokken:

"There is freedom of speech in Norway and in the Tynset Socialist Left Party we consider it unproblematic that Mahdi is opposed in principle to homosexuality. It is in accordance with his religion."

According to simple logic, if the left sees as "unproblematic" something which would be intolerable among Christians, that means that they have no inherent philosophical problem with anti-gay bigotry. Thus, the fact that they condemn only Christian opposition to homosexuality cannot be philosophical, but has to be tactical in nature.

Considering the fact that Communist regimes have a long track record of systematically place gays in gulags, I guess that should surprise no one.

So why is it that so many gay rubes continue to buy into the narrative that they belong on the left?