The tin-foil hat crowd has infiltrated Congress. Three Republican Representatives gave a press conference to warn us about an Evil Muslim Plot To Infiltrate Congress. Apparently the Council on American Islamic Relations that is trying to place interns in Congressional offices so the young people will learn about American governance, and have an opportunity to enter politics. But according to these three latter-day McCarthyits this is Muslim plot. Or as Rachel Maddow said last night, “It’s sort of a mainstream advocacy group strategy, it’s not really a new strategy, it’s not a nefarious one unless of course you happen to pursue that strategy while being Muslim,”
And the source for this paranoia? A book published by World Net Daily, a notorious right wing, conspiracy based organization that continues to push the Birther agenda as well as other crazy ideas.
Has it never occurred to these morons that if we alienate the American Muslim community they won’t come to us when there might be a legitimate terrorist plot being hatched?
