My boss pointed me to this.

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"It's an issue of patriotism," Rep. Lois McMahan, a conservative Republican from Gig Harbor, said of her decision to stand in the back of the room.

"The Islamic religion is so . . . part and parcel with the attack on America. I just didn't want to be there, be a part of that," she said. "Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America."



Issue of patriotism? No, you dim-witted hosebag, the issue is your displaying colossal and willful ignorance in the face of a man of peace praying for your benighted soul.

"Spawns the groups that hate America"? I guess it's perfectly okay to spurn an entire religion that you yourself admit isn't made up entirely of the people you rail against. That's perfectly fine, I guess.

I guess it's also perfectly fine to be part of a religion that sought to perform religious genocide (re: the Salem witch trials). I guess it's just dandy to be part of a religion which found it all well and good to do it yet again (re: the Inquisition). I may have my chronology arse backwards, but you get the point.

What's that, I hear you say? Not all Christians were part of those deplorable happenings? Well, your "faith" in whatever flavor was in vogue at the time sure spawned them.

There's a word for dimwits like these: hypocrite.

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Just adding... though she seems rather clueless, she's politically savvy enough to apologize.