MUSLIMS! MUSLIMS! specifically AMERICAN MUSLIMS!
See this post by Ali Eteraz. I love his commentary on CAIR. I must say, I don’t know what worse, that he reads LGF, or that he’s giving space to mention CAIR.
h/t Brian
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