Juan Cole: “Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie”

Juan Cole: “Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie”

Those of you following the “Muslim Cabbie-Stabber” incident — in which a very drunk guy affiliated with a pro-Corboba mosque organization stabbed a cabblie who was Muslim — will know that the left-wing blogosphere is on another one of its wrong-way rampages of righteous indignation about the right.

The facts, as they are developing, seem to point to a criminal act by a very drunk guy, but as reported by Ben Smith, the police are not linking the incident to the controversy over the Cordoba mosque.

But that has not stopped the usual suspects, like Juan Cole, from going overboard with headlines and “reasoning” like this:

Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie

It wasn’t the 21-year-old Michael Enright who drunkenly slashed his New York city cab driver after asking ‘Are you Muslim?’

It was the Republican National Committee. From August of 2006, the RNC decided to demonize Muslims and Islam as a campaign ploy, to scare apparently easily spooked white Christians. In recent weeks, Newt Gingrich sharpened the blade by comparing Muslims to Nazis. Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio asked if the Sunni Kuwaiti Sufi Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is on a good will mission to the Muslim world on behalf of the US State Department and was deployed in the same way by George W. Bush, is a terrorist in the employ of Shiite Iran.

The slasher was apparently “very drunk,” but what does being drunk do to a person? Makes them suggestible, lets primal emotions come to the fore. Newt Gingrich and Rick Lazio may as well have kept Enwright in their basements in chains and whipped him into a frenzy as to spew their hatred on the airwaves.

More to follow on the left-wing blogosphere befooling itself, once again, à la Bill Sparkman.

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