Zombie Lie: Right Still Clinging To Decade-Old Fabrication About Radicalized Mosques | Media Matters for America

Newsverse: The Final Solution to the Muslim Problem – Newsweek. Attention Muslims! There’s a meeting At City Hall on Thursday night. After Pat Buchanan’s greeting We’ll show a film on civil rights. Afterwards we’ll have inspection. Take a moment to attach To your shirt, for your protection This yellow star-and-crescent patch.

So what's the difference? It is this. Some expressions of bigotry are permissible in this country and some aren't. One had best keep your anti-black racism to yourself — or pretend it's just about Obama as the Limbaughs and right-wingers do. Same with Jews, where, as the Thomas case demonstrates, expressing disdain for Israel, let alone Jews, can be a career killer. But it's still okay to express open prejudice towards gays and lesbians, Latino immigrants (legal or illegal) and, above all, Muslims and Arabs. [From Jeff Goldberg Defends Marty Peretz — But Not That Bigot, Helen Thomas] islamophobia, anti-Muslim