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Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat
Right-wing warmongers invent domestic threats to justify their agenda of wars and expansions of government power.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-09-13]

  • WOW! Golden Boy is baffled?

    For some reason, the "flying imams" incident seems to be central to Muslim apologists. I am not exactly sure why this is, but then again I am also baffled by the idea of progressives defending the rotten ideology of Islam.

    -- Golden Boy

    Ahem. Flying Imams are central to Islamophobes, begging your pardon. It wasn't the "Islamic appologists" who called law enforcement to ensure flying Imams can pray undisturbed. It was the Islamophobes who did. That's how the whole thing saw daylight in the first place, if I recall correctly.

    True, the absurdity of this incident, the embaressment that it caused all civilized Americans did compell them to speak out in response. They (we) want the world to know we are not all backward, scared neanderthals.

    That an intellect such as yourself may be baffled does not move me one bit, but the progressives are not defending the "rotten ideology of Islam". We are defending the glorious ideology of an open society.

    -- Denning
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    Thursday, September 13, 2007 01:58 PM
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