Reservoir of Anti-Muslim Hate

On the heels of my last post about conservative posturing comes this gem:

A House Republican leadership group 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 (news, bio, voting record) to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.

Never mind that the group "had launched public service ads on TV against terrorism and had worked closely with the FBI and other government agencies." It's simple: Just dismiss what doesn't fit the narrative.

"It's really disappointing," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper, that whenever there's an attack from elective officials "we don't even ask any more which party it is. It should be a concern to ordinary Republicans that the party is being viewed as a reservoir of anti-Muslim hate."

I don't think Party leadership is concerned, because that's the point: Rather than understand your "enemies" (or bother to understand the distinction between Sunni/Shi'ite or mainstream vs extremist Islam), they prefer to hate and smear foes for political expediency.

Making knee-jerk, ill-informed policy decisions has proven effective so far, hasn't it? Things are going pretty well, right?