This sort of neo-fascist acts stemming from irrational hate has had me worried for a while now. I remember the 20/20 segment where an actress dressed up in a hijab was harassed repeatedly in a bakery by an actor playing the baker, and unsuspecting bystanders applauded his bigotry.

It's not just in the US but rampant in Europe. There's been this lie about a so-called "Islamofascism" movement that has been making the rounds, seeking to stir fear, hatred and to provoke confrontation. The irony is that a large number of Muslims have been killed (over 1 million in Iraq alone), their lands quartered, colonized, bombed and invaded, dating from the last century to this past decade, by the so-called "Judeo-Christian" nations, if we are designating roles according religious beliefs here.

No doubt there are fundamentalist Muslims galore attending mosques with firebrand imams spouting violent visions not unlike the Left Behind hordes. Still, on the whole, they have been one of the worst suffering peoples on earth more sinned against than sinning - if we were to undergo a fraction of what they have faced, I do not doubt that many of us would have taken up much worst acts of retaliation than suicide bombings.

There's even now an insane neocon proposal to train the Georgians into a type of anti-Russia Hezbollah, but do Americans understand what it takes to "transform" a people into "fighting guerillas/terrorists" ?

http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/following-hezbollah-lessons-in.php

To end their hatred of the West, most of them must be assured of a viable future of co-existence. Without justice for them, how can we expect peace in return?

This act of bigotry is appalling and disgraceful. But it is also just as appalling that it isn't on any of the big new channels. The hypocrisy and double standards of this society never fail to amaze me.

So Muslim children can get gassed in this country, and not a peep out of the MSM. And you wonder why people hate us.

The right-wing fundamentalist Christians who demonize Muslim are our version of the Islamo-fascists, these churches are our madrasses, where hate is taught and violence bred.

This is shocking but I know it shouldn't be. When one of the biggest reasons people are giving for not voting for Obama is that they think he's Muslim, what can you expect?

It pisses me off that the Bushies have painted all Muslims as terrorists, and it PO's me that the mainstream media ignores stories like this and rarely mentions the thousands upon thousands of Iraqi civilians who've died because of our invasion.

As an atheist, raised as a reform Jew, my experience was that my "community" tended toward social liberalism and vociferously anti-bigotry. While I see today's Jewish community as more split than when I was a kid, it is not so much as the MSM represents it to be. Jewish republicans are a small minority in the community and, the community is often, if not a majority of the time, in disagreement with Israel's conservative policies. American Jews are overwhelmingly registered Democrats.

Most often today people using the term Zionist are using it as a generalized code word by those wanting to disguise their own or other's anti-Semitic bigotry. Today the term properly is meant to refer to the return of Jews to their original homelands and that they have self-governance.

In some sence, it's like Blacks using the word nigger amounst themselves in no way bares any relationship in meaning relative to when a white uses the same word. Therefor, I suggest care in how and when the term is used.

Trust me, Jews would not taint themselves by having anything to do with that video.

Just as disturbing as this DVD is (though I have only heard about it, the Pentecostalish "Jesus Camp" truly scared the shit out of me and one of those nut-cases is on the Republican ticket.

I've checked Google, Yahoo and Dogpile a couple of times today for any mainstream coverage about this incident but there is still nothing. Only blogs mention the Dayton mosque.

It's a crying shame.