Fearing a Muslim Planet
My article the new issue of American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/muslim-planet/ Fearing a Muslim Planet What’s behind all the Sharia hysteria? By Leon Hadar Would you like a spot of Islamophobia in your tea? It seems that a few of the Tea Party’s representatives in the midterm elections concluded that voters would like their favorite drink brewed with very hot anti-Muslim spices. “He is the only Muslim member of congress,” Tea Party Nation leader Judson Phillips, a Tennessee attorney, wrote in an e-mail to supporters in which he urged them to help defeat Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) because of his Muslim faith. “The Quran in no uncertain terms says some wonderful things like, ‘Kill the infidels’,” wrote Phillips. “I have a real problem with people who want to kill me just because I’m the infidel,” he continued, expressing support for Ellison’s opponent, Lynne Torgerson, an independent candidate. “What do I know of Islam?” Torgerson wrote on her website. “Well, I know of ...