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This petty attack on one of our closest allies was embarrassing enough. But he solidified his image as the laughingstock of the world by inadvertently attacking a private citizen instead.
A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized on Wednesday for a "highly offensive" leaflet which contained a passage from the Quran used in the Taliban militants' banner superimposed on to the image of a dog.
For a guy who has fought to ban Muslims from the country and has repeatedly denigrated and isolated those who practice Islam, both at home and abroad, Trump's silence is certainly not surprising.
Trump's choice of Flynn is unsurprising given the anti-Muslim aura that surrounded the president-elect during his campaign.
"Keep in mind, when Donald Trump brings this up, this is not new. When the communist threat was the number one threat...as is Islamic extremists today."
"We blame Donald Trump for this . . .his drama has created Islamophobia. This is a hate crime no matter which way you look at it."
"Neither the House nor the Senate has held hearings on the terrorism directed at law enforcement officials...by antigovernment zealots such as the Bundys."
"We have no long term alternative but to quarantine them… prohibiting them from residing anywhere within the civilized nations of the Earth."
Cruz says, "We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized"
Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace depends upon forcing extremist Christianity down Muslim throats
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward anything not Christian
Benjamin Netanyahu did not like Barack Obama's refusal to grant him control of U.S. foreign policy and a Kuwaiti paper says he wants revenge
A Muslim woman stood up in silent protest of Trump's attacks on Syrian refugees, and found herself escorted out to boos and catcalls
Bill O'Reilly dishonestly claims that Germans looked the other way when Hitler rose to power and that Muslims are doing the same with ISIL
The Benham brothers don't experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
Bush's response to 9/11 played directly into Osama bin Laden's hands and provided a recruiting tool groups like ISIS could not exist without
Both the school district shuttering and University suspension center around the GOP and evangelical movement's current cause, Islamophobia
Donald Trump wants to know why Syrian refugees have cell phones, who they might be calling, and who is paying for them, 'hint, hint.'
While the Republican candidates were embarrassing themselves on CNN, Hillary Clinton was busy embarrassing them on Twitter
The GOP is inciting domestic terrorism toward Muslims, anyone that might appear to be Middle Eastern, or anyplace a Muslim might worship