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Praying while Brown* (Update) 0

In my ex-local rag, Dick Polman looks that the Republican Party’s, and particular the loathsome Congressman King’s (R-The Dark Side) hearings this week.

He exposes the fraud behind the hearings, then zeroes in on their inherent hypocrisy:

. . . consider the case of Eric Rudolph, who bombed abortion clinics and the ’96 Atlantic Olympics, and later killed a cop while on the lam from the FBI. Rudolph was affiliated with an extremist Christian group, and he famously quoted the Bible to justify his clinic bombings – yet the Republicans never called for hearings to examine whether white Christian churches were breeding domestic terrorists.

The hypocrisy is most obvious when we examine Congressman King’s past loyalties to the IRA. On a number of occasions after the IRA bombed British facilities and killed innocent people, our counterterrorism chairman seemed fine with that.

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And while King carves out an exception for the IRA, the GOP stays true to its own DNA. These hearings predictably stigmatize an entire minority community, paint its members as The Other, and further stoke anti-Muslim hostility among those who think that mosques are hotbeds for terrorism and that any “radical” thought is a coded call to action.

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*Yes, I know that Muslims come in all colors. But I have a dollar to a doughnut that, if no Muslims were not-white, wingnuts would not be so committed to demonizing them as a group.

Addendum, Later that Evening:

See The Richmonder.

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