Three Muslims were shot to death in North Carolina in what may have been a dispute over parking. Or they may have been shot because they were Muslim. We don't know.

But if you asked the White House, I'm sure they wouldn't be so quick to claim this was an attack based on religion. After all, when people were slaughtered in the kosher supermarket in France, President Obama said that was a random attack because, after all, not every person in the supermarket was necessarily Jewish. Furthermore, the victims in the kosher supermarket weren't targeted by name, so maybe the attack wasn't aimed at people of a certain religion, as White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested.

So for the same reasons, perhaps the attack on these Muslims had nothing to do with religion. But since this was an attack on Muslims, not Christians or Jews, I would be very surprised if the White House sang the same tune.

Meanwhile, people outraged by the murder have started a hashtag, #muslimlivesmatter, claiming that this murder of Muslims hasn't gotten any significant press attention. In front page articles in the Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and hundreds of other newspapers, they paradoxically claim that murders of Muslims in America are underreported. (Actually, they receive disproportionate press attention, but you seldom hear about them because they are very few in number.)

What I find interesting, though, is that this #muslimlivesmatter hashtag and all the associated outrage only sprouted up after three Muslims were killed in North Carolina.

The hashtag didn't appear when

• ISIS burned a Muslim Jordanian pilot to death
• ISIS & Assad killed thousands of Muslims in Syria
• ISIS and Shiite death squads killed thousands of Muslims in Iraq
• Boko Harm kidnapped and killed thousands of Muslims (and Christians) in Nigeria
• The Muslim Brotherhood killed thousands of Muslims in Egypt

And so on.

It seems this sort of outrage is only reserved when the aggressor is reported to be a non-Muslim (usually a Christian or a Jew, but in this case the shooter seems to be a leftist atheist, according to reports!). It makes me wonder, why is it that so few deaths in America sparks outrage, when thousands of Muslim deaths in the Middle East don't?

I think the answer is that this has nothing to do with Muslim deaths. It has to do with hatred of America. And Israel. And Christians. And Jews. And anyone who isn't the specific kind of fanatical radical Muslim (or sympathizers, like the radical Islam loving Kayla Mueller) who has the same exact theological viewpoint as ISIS or Hamas or Al Qaeda.

I feel sympathy for the three Muslims who were killed; but I feel only scorn for those using this as a veiled (pun intended) attack on American society.

Pedro Gonzales is editor of Newsmachete.com, the conservative news site. Feedback is welcome.