Nine years after 9-11 Islamophobia catches fire and roars across the American psyche.

It has NEVER been this bad before.

After 9-11 there was anger toward the Islamic community, but the President, who probably did not want to upset his Saudi pals, put a cap on it and made sure that the focus was on the terrorists NOT the every day Muslims who were not part of Al-Qaeda.

But today we see a completely different attitude by those on the Right.  An attitude that seems desperate to inflame passions against the Muslim faith and to create and atmosphere of racial and religious disharmony.

For the evidence of that just take a look at this trailer for a film put together by Citizens United and featuring future presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, and his blow up doll of a third wife.



In my opinion there is NO defense for making a film like that in this day and age.  That is a Right Wing, anti-Islamic snuff film, and the fact that they feel confident enough with the mood of the country to promote it out in the open proudly, instead of showing it in the darkened basements of radical Evangelical churches, should frighten ALL of us.

And of course it does not end there.  Just today the most hate filled simpletons on TV, the hosts from Fox and Friends, used a map put together by the NY firefighters of the body parts found amidst the destruction from 9-11 to gin up even more intolerance and hatred.

There are also rallies planned to in New York, hosted by organizations like "Stop Islamization of America" and the "Freedom Defense Initiative" that are only adding to the inferno of hate and religious intolerance.

Even after Terry Jones finally came to his senses and decided NOT to burn Qurans today, the flames which his rhetorical gasoline helped to spread are now raging out of control.

And NONE of this is accidental by the way. Oh no, this was purposefully done by our "friends" at Fox News and the Republican hate mongers to keep this President, who many of their viewers and supporters still view as a secret Muslim, off balance and on the defensive, so that he so busy addressing ridiculous charges and trying to calm the populace that he has no time to move his agenda, and that of the Democrats, forward.

These bastards are willing to inflame passions to such an extent in this country that it puts our soldiers overseas and the Muslim Americans living in our country in peril, simply for political gain. These people care NOTHING for our soldiers, and NOTHING, for the innocent people who may suffer in the wake of their naked ambitions. It is all about political expedience and the opportunity to gain back the power that they lost in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

What I find to be truly sad is how readily many Americans respond to those Pavlovian bells that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Fox "News" folks are ringing.  How do we fight such a primal response to the incitement of hatred and intolerance?  It does not seem that the use of facts or intellectual discourse have any impact anymore.

Sarah Palin tweets, Fox News amplifies the message, and the flames race across the country igniting hatred and religious intolerance in their wake.

We simply cannot allow this type of tactic to succeed. We must call them out on their bullshit every time we see it, we must fight misinformation with truth, and we must VOTE in the next election as if the very soul of our country depended on it.  Because my friends, I think it just might!