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tithenai which I think y'all should go read. In fact, I think everyone should go read it.It's far too easy for us to think that repulsive hatemongering racists like Gaubatz, and the echo chambers of Faux News and WorldNutsDaily and Nutsmax.com, are somehow separated from the rest of society, that, just because you and I and most of the people we know would never think that fomenting fear and violence was the path to freedom, then the people who do -- the Palins and the Becks and the Bachmans and the AFA and all their horrible kin -- are just fictional characters on a distant cinema or TV screen.
They're not, of course. They harm people. They have the potential to cause unimaginable damage on not just a national but a world scale. And they influence even the best intentioned among us -- some of whom tithenai encountered.
Gaubatz's vile book Muslim Mafia is published by WND Books -- i.e., by WorldNutsDaily, all responsible publishers having presumably rejected it with a shudder. Yet it is being stocked by Borders, and Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, and . . . all of whom should know better. It is not censorship to decline to make money out of selling books that are poisonous, hate-filled and inflammatory.
Enough of my blather: it's not important, and it's probably the result of too many hours at the computer today. What's important is what tithenai says. It's enough to make you weep.
