{"id":751,"date":"2012-07-19T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T03:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=751"},"modified":"2012-07-19T23:31:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T03:31:25","slug":"right-wing-daily-caller-denounces-gop-anti-muslim-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/19\/right-wing-daily-caller-denounces-gop-anti-muslim-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Daily Caller Denounces GOP Anti-Muslim Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/07\/19\/republicans-must-speak-out-against-casual-attacks-on-our-muslim-fellow-citizens\/\">op-ed for the right-wing website Daily Caller<\/a>, blogger Tom Rogan denounced Rep. Michele Bachmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (R-MN) <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/06\/22\/504937\/bachmann-muslim-brotherhood-penetration\/\">anti-Muslim<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/07\/18\/537991\/ellison-bachmann-muslim-brotherhood-nothing\/\">witch-hunt<\/a> and wider Islamophobic sentiment in the GOP ranks. Bachmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unjustified (based on a report written by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbyiz97lA78\">wacko<\/a>), immoral and symptomatic of a casual and idiotic anti-Islamic sentiment that has crept into Republican dialogue.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he wrote. Describing a litany of Republican and conservative involvement in anti-Muslim activism \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/bachmann-flap-should-surprise-no-one\/\">something others have avoided<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Rogan added: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This casual, stupid and extreme anti-Islamic sentiment has no place in the Republican Party.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He lauds Sen. John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (R-AZ) <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/07\/18\/541361\/mccain-bachman-abedin-muslim-brotherhood\/\">repudiation of Bachmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attacks<\/a> (House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/07\/19\/548671\/boehner-blasts-bachmann-says-her-unfounded-accusations-are-pretty-dangerous\/\">John Boehner (R-OH) and others<\/a> distanced themselves, too). The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wacko\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comment refers to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/07\/19\/545991\/gaffney-latest-boogeyman-bachmann\/\">progenitor<\/a> of GOP Islamophobia, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/frank-gaffney-founder-center-for-security-policy\/\">Frank Gaffney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via ThinkProgress <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/07\/19\/552811\/daily-caller-denounces-gop-islamophobia\/?mobile=nc\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/07\/19\/552811\/daily-caller-denounces-gop-islamophobia\/?mobile=nc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for the right-wing website Daily Caller, blogger Tom Rogan denounced Rep. Michele Bachmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (R-MN) anti-Muslim witch-hunt and wider Islamophobic sentiment in the GOP ranks. Bachmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attack was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unjustified (based on a report written by a wacko), immoral and symptomatic of a casual and idiotic anti-Islamic sentiment that has crept into Republican dialogue.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/19\/right-wing-daily-caller-denounces-gop-anti-muslim-sentiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Right-Wing Daily Caller Denounces GOP Anti-Muslim Sentiment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[338,6,49],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ali-gharib","tag-ifttt","tag-thinkprogress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-c7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}