This isn't some garage rally sponsored by a local KKK chapter. This isn't a community meeting in Bumblefuck attended by the frustrated, powerless, and racist. This was a panel sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank headed by former Senator Jim DeMint, one of the engines behind the…

Ooh, do tell. You must have some really incriminating evidence to point to. By all means, do so.

No, it isn't. Hitler rose to power through a political process. Germans could have—in the early days, anyway—removed him from power. Islam is a religion that crosses geographical and geopolitical lines. The average Muslim in the US has no control over a Muslim in another country.

It was very traumatizing for the people of Libya, many of whom (especially in the cities) are middle class, moderate and secular. The area in the east has had weird little pockets of extremism for a long time - actually a bunch of suicide bombers in Iraq came from one little backwater town called Darnah - but that's…

That isn't valid at all. They are expecting an American Muslim to do something about Muslims that live in entirely different parts of the world. It would be more valid to question why peaceful American Christians didn't do much about German Christians before we entered WWII.

The Muslim peace movement is called Islam. Islam has no Pope. Every act of violence is denounced, publicly and often, but it's never enough for people like you, is it?

And after the Boston bombings:

Do you not recall the Gulf War, when direct missile strikes were brought to our home screens courtesy of advanced satellite technology, so that we and our TV commentators could watch and cheer together? I remember people laughing hysterically at the spectral image of a terrified man—a pale, human-shaped blip on the…

So most Muslims sympathize with terrorists? Really? Indonesia? Kosovo? Senegal? Tunisia? These countries are over 90% Muslim. Those entire countries sympathize with terrorists? Are you aware that there are different types of Muslims, with different philosophies, as well as many cultures that contain Muslim people? You…

Since Benghazi was the subject of the discussion, I present you with images of Libyan protestors after the attack in Benghazi.

Ahmed answered quietly, as before. "I guess it's me right now," she said.

Alternative headline (not that yours was bad): Awesome Muslim Lady Fucking Schools a Bunch of Shithead Conservative Loons as to How American Political Discourse Is Supposed to Work

All the feminists I've met and talked to in my life have been leaps and bounds more respectful of men than non- or anti-feminists are, simply because they know how toxic gender roles are, and that simply because men are privileged over women doesn't mean they aren't subject to them either. This whole idea of misandry…

Yeah, but is your name going to be in a GOT book?

You think that the legions of fine scientists in countries where animal keratin is considered "medicine" could scream this loud enough for anyone to notice, but still. The "old school" reigns. For...reasons

Every news story about sad or awful things makes you feel so powerless, but there's just something especially gut-punchy about the tiny baby rhino which now has no mother for the DUMBEST reasons ever. I can empathize with people who are poaching for bush meat because they can't feed themselves otherwise. But…

I'm just...so tired of this shit.

Honestly the apology is SO good that if it was anyone but Bieber we would all probably buy it and believe it is heartfelt and sincere. Alas, his actions in the past year speak so much louder than anything a PR person doing damage control can say.

"...PBS and co-producers at WNED Buffalo 'believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills.'"