Enablers of Hate
Let's try to think about organized hate groups and militias in "shoe on the other foot" terms.
Since 9/11, we've had passionate debates about whether moderate, non-violent Muslims here and abroad are obligated to do more to counter violence among their rabid, frothing extreme fringe.
Groups such as CAIR seem to resent being associated with extremism while not seeming to do much to efficaciously stand up to their affiliated extremists.
Another conundrum is that many moderate Muslims rationalize the anger of jihadists, saying that wackos in Gaza and Peshawar Kashmir take understandable grievances to unacceptable extremes. They suggest that if India or Israel or America adequately address the grievances, the extremist hatred and violence will go away.
That usually rings hollow and tinny to people on the outside. It sounds as though the moderates are acting like enablers in a crazed, abusive household.
Yet now the American right, who has comprised the most vocal critics of such rationalization-and-codependence approaches in the Mideast, will need to rise above their recent tendency to use just the same approach in the Obama era.
I'd really like the Left to stop being Enablers of Stupid, but I don't see that happening. (Sheila Jackson Lee. 'Nuff said.)
Just who are the "extremists" to whom you are referring? And who are the conservatives who are "enabling hate"?
I know you think you see hypocrisy here, but in all honesty, I don't remember the whole "hey moderate Muslims you better control your extremists" thing being such an all-consuming cry from the Right. Rather, it was "let's get us some terrorists."
Again, I know of nobody among my conservative friends, family and acquaintances who suddenly turned on their Muslim friends and/or neighbors. So-called moderate Muslims DID denounce 9/11, did they not? Just as conservatives reliably denounce every loon who goes off into violence. ??