Conservatives Berate Muslim Woman After She Stood Up For Islam
The Huffington Post:
A Heritage Foundation panel on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, turned ugly on Monday after a Muslim student stood up to say her faith wasn’t being accurately represented.
The speakers, led by conservative commentator Andrew McCarthy, began to taunt American University law student Saba Ahmed, drawing an “extended standing ovation from the nearly 150 people in the room,” according to The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank.
“We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam,” Ahmed said. “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.”
Brigitte Gabriel, a panelist of ACT for America, responded with a Nazi comparison.
“When you look throughout history, most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and, as a result, 60 million died,” she said. “Almost 14 million in concentration camps. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.”