I'm disgusted with neoconservatives

Yeah I know, how many times are you not disgusted with neocons? They like to slander and discredit those that they often disagree with. Apparently they cannot by any means resort to agreeing to disagreeing in a civil manner and move on.

This case is no different, where a woman who is accused of supposedly harboring terrorist sympathies is anything but. Samuel Freedman does an excellent job of deconstructing the lies the far-right have enacted simply because she is a Muslim. The fact that she did the following:

For anyone who bothered to look for it, Ms. Almontaser left a clear, public record of interfaith activism and outreach across the boundaries of race, ethnicity and religion. Her efforts, especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, earned her honors, grants and fellowships. She has collaborated so often with Jewish organizations that an Arab-American newspaper, Aramica, castigated her earlier this summer for being too close to a “Zionist organization,” meaning the Anti-Defamation League.

Ms. Almontaser has twice been profiled on Voice of America as an accomplished Muslim American. Her son, Yousif, spent several months on rescue efforts at ground zero as a member of the Army National Guard. Four of her nephews and cousins have served in the United States military in Iraq.

mattered nothing to these Islamophobic bigots, not even the fact that her family members FUCKING SERVED IN IRAQ! They had more guts to fight a war than these armchair generals have done. Then again, they slandered John McCain and Senator John Kerry (politics withstanding, you should never slander those who had enough guts to serve their country). She has done more to promote tolerance and respect for all yet what do these anti-Islamic scumbags accomplish? Breeding more hate for the sake of generating more hits for their pathetic blogs in which they spread their malicious lies to impressionable Americans.

These so-called "defenders of democracy and freedom" are truly the scum of this country. They are the reason why this country is so fucking polarized that their patriotism is in question. Not even Jon Stewart of the Daily Show is is immune from this. It seems like the right seems to hold a monopoly on who is American and who isn't. It's okay to wish another 9/11 to "unite the country" according to these kooks.

To Sister Debbie, do not give up by any means, and to anyone reading this blog entry, spread the word to fight the misconceptions and the slander that these bigots are spreading to further their agenda.

By all means do not let this go unnoticed. An accomplished member of society is being tarnished for lies being concocted by the lowest of the scum.

H/T: Tariq Nelson and Umar Lee

Hypocrisy by the Right (LGF, JW, FoxNews, etc.)

When word broke out that the shooter of the Trolly Square Mall in Salt Lake City was a Bosnian Muslim, the usual suspects from the right, such as Rush Limbaugh, Robert Spencer, and Charles Johnson, were marked with anger and tried foolishly to pin this shooting on an alleged wave of "Islamoterror". They also had the dubious distinction of complaining about how the MSM "intentionally" left out that he was a Muslim out of PC-ness they claim. Since when did identifying his religion become a factor? Only when it is a Muslim in question, apparently. When a BNP member assaults a Pakistani or black man in the UK, you won't ever see these fools ever campaign for the release of the suspect's religion.

That being said, the right is unusually silent when it comes to a white ex member of a notorious racist party that would make Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh look like a bunch of Jane Fonda liberals, the BNP, who was recently arrested in a plot to assasinate the Prime Minister and stockpile weapons in anticipation for civil war.

According to The Telegraph, a few things I would like to note about this individual in question:

An entry in Cottage's diary read: "Thought for the Day. The easiest way to save the country is to assassinate Tony Blair and when Prescott takes over shoot that f***** as well."

In addition to targeting Mr Blair, he spoke of wanting to shoot Lord Greaves, the Liberal Democrat peer

So they advocate murdering British PM Tony Blair, yet the right stay unusually silent about this.

Another interesting tidbit:

Police searched the couple's terrace home last September and found 21 chemicals that in various combinations could be turned into explosives. They also found large amounts of rice and sugar, both of which can be used in the manufacture of explosives, as well as crossbows, air pistols, ball-bearings and canisters filled with petrol

I remember when the Canadian Muslims who were caught in a plot to commit the worst attack in Toronto, the media was nonstop in their coverage when the weapons and fertilizer were discovered, yet again, where is the non-stop coverage when a huge stash of weapons is discovered by a white Christian male?

And finally:

"He is very religious and has become more and more so. He doesn't attend church. He prays to God all the time, he says, in his head."

God forbid! He was very religious with a stash of weapons, so it could mean one thing: he must be one of them "Mohammadans"! Only in this case, he was a zealous Christian who had some apocalyptic dreams of a civil war in Britain.

Yet the Bosnian teen shooter never prayed and been to a mosque, and you have reactionary fools from LGF, JW, and MPJ jumping on the news of him being a Muslim.

So you have someone who had potential to do some deadly damage on the scale of the July 7th attacks in 2005, yet the media turns a blind eye towards it, and the right do not utter a word about this.

Yet the far right bitch and moan about the supposed PC efforts in the Trolley Square murders.

Now how's that for hypocrisy?

The right should put their money where their mouth is and stop being such hypocrites when it comes to press honesty, because last I checked, they only choose what suits them for their agenda and discard it when it doesn't.