These are Americans
Please, NYTimes, you may start off with the minimizing, "a small band of critics....," but the AP has the truth.
These are American citizens we're talking about here. These are American citizens that the Republican leadership is willing to stir discrimination against for political gain.
I guess it's no different than the recurring discrimination against gays or hispanics, but something about this just particularly rubs the wrong way.
Maybe it's the fact that this press release was issued in the name of all House Republicans, yet in neither the AP story or the NYTimes story is there a single Republican willing to go on record with the charges.
House Republicans said Monday that Democrats should retract an offer to let the nation's largest Islamic civil liberties organization use a Capitol conference room for a seminar.
The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.
These are American citizens we're talking about here. These are American citizens that the Republican leadership is willing to stir discrimination against for political gain.
I guess it's no different than the recurring discrimination against gays or hispanics, but something about this just particularly rubs the wrong way.
Maybe it's the fact that this press release was issued in the name of all House Republicans, yet in neither the AP story or the NYTimes story is there a single Republican willing to go on record with the charges.
posted by mikevotes at
9:11 PM
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It isn't any different than gays or Hispanics. The former is done in the name of religion, the latter in the name of cultural and economic preservation. Discriminating against Islam neatly combines the two - and throws in patriotism - without pinning it firmly on any one of them...
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Anonymous, at 9:39 PM
It's just despicable.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 10:37 PM
It is a most fundamental example of what it means to be unAmerican.
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-epm, at 8:59 AM
And, if there really are terrorist sleeper cells that seem to dominate the fevered dreams of the Republican paranoid, we might just want American Muslims working with us, you know?
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:30 AM
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