.... This is not as tragic a moment in western civilization as the sacking of Constantinople in 1453 or the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, but it suffices as one of those sad moments we will regret over time. From TomDispatch - Aziz Huq, Imperial Pretensions and the Financial Crunch . From Democracy Now!'s website - “Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation .

Obama Wages War on Freedom of Speech

... speech at precisely the same time that he wants to build bridges to the Islamic world and demonstrate his power to restore hope and bring change to old stalemated conflicts? So maybe Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and a few miserable  “Islamophobes” get silenced, fined, arrested, imprisoned, whatever. What’s the big deal? Peace will then march on unimpeded. At least just as it did before 1776.