Response to Fareed Zakaria

The Anti-Muslim Machine < Killing the Buddha. the shitstorm that just passed through town is a familiar one. The proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan is the Brooklyn “madrassa” all over again, with the same cast of conservative activists working to block the mainstreaming of Muslims in the public sphere. Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf wants to create essentially a Muslim YMCA in Lower Manhattan? They say he supports Hamas and has terrorist ties. Debbie Almontaser wanted to head a public school that’d specialize in Arabic? Also—you guessed it—a Hamas supporter with terrorist ties. And repeat.

Really, it’s true. Aziz has a good post, including video, of how McCain supporters got rid of an Islamophobe from amongst them. However, The Poor Man shows us that bigotry is still part of the McCain clique. The fish stinks from the head. Update: Aziz updates his post that one of the “good guys” at the rally is prohibited from talking to the media. Abdul-Halim posts something similar. Election 2008, McCain