The list of scapegoats grows daily

It's getting ugly out there, folks. I posted a few weeks ago about how gays were going to be the Jews of the Bush Reich, but it looks like it's not going to be just gays. The furor over the increasing likelihood that Mel Gibson's pornographic gore-fest The Whup-Ass of the Christ will be shut out of Academy Award nominations, when simmered slowly along with William Donohue's aspersions on Hollywood Jews' sexual practices, means that all the poisons that lurk in the mud are, in fact, hatching out. And I say, let's see it! Bring it out. I'm sick and tired of evangelicals saying how much they love the Jews, when in reality the only use they have for the Jews is as video game victims when Jeebus comes riding in on his Harley o'Hate to rescue them from having to deal with the rest of us. Cards on the table, I say.



And now there's another group that's going to be added to the mix.



Muslims.



Yes indeedy, folks. Now that the Bush Administration has succeeded in convincing Americans that the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and all citizens of Iraq are interchangeable in their villainy, now it seems that almost half of Americans are in favor of restricting the rights of Muslim Americans (emphases mine):

The survey conducted by Cornell University also found that Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious.



Researchers also found that respondents who paid more attention to television news were more likely to fear terrorist attacks and support limiting the rights of Muslim Americans.



"It's sad news. It's disturbing news. But it's not unpredictable," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society. "The nation is at war, even if it's not a traditional war. We just have to remain vigilant and continue to interface."



The survey found 44 percent favored at least some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. Forty-eight percent said liberties should not be restricted in any way.



The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported requiring all Muslim Americans to register where they lived with the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent thought undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations to keep tabs on their activities and fund-raising.

Why not just cut to the chase and make them wear yellow scimitars on their clothes? Or just open the camps? Why even go through the pretense that it's going to result in anything other than genocide? What do they think we are, stupid? (Answer: Yes.)



This is just horrifying. For anyone living in a civilized society, especially one that still has residual memory of WWII, hearing stuff like this ought to make your blood run cold. I may be about as lapsed a Jew as you can get, but I Have Not Forgotten, and I will NEVER forget. And part of not forgetting is to not allow the same thing to happen to any other group, either...even if there are members of that group who want to see Israel destroyed. That's between the Arab world and Israel, and it should have NO bearing on the rights of American citizens who happen to be of Arab descent or Muslim. As far as I'm concerned, American Jews have a PARTICULAR obligation to speak out against this.