This Week: Town Hall

Christianne Amanpour hosted a town hall on Islam in America on ABC's this Week. It was a very good event, with lots of points of view represented, several of them of them idiots like Gary Bauer and Junior Graham. It was a little discouraging to watch their tactics and see how effective they were. The basic technique is equating all members of a group with the worst members of the group, or the worst deeds of a member.

It's an amazingly effective technique - not surprisingly, since that's been the way we have started wars for millenia. Thankfully there were some members who spoke clearly for the Constitution and American values. Unfortunately, appeals to reason have little power over those who are hysterical over the prospect that American Muslims are about to introduce stoning for adultry in the US. Perhaps they should worry about the Christians and Jews among us - it's their Bible that the Muslims got it from.

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