If the Left does not wake up about Islam, Trump will win

[haele]

158. I do take mob mentality seriously.

Especially it shapes the concerns from otherwise innocent people who really don't want to deal with issues much further than getting through the work week without getting a pink slip.
Unfortunately, I also take the lessons of history and the rule of even handed secular law seriously. While it might make "middle America" feel better to see laws against mosques and a muslim person's right to free assembly, association, and speech so long as those actions do not constitute actual conspiracy to commit crimes, I rather draw the line. Y'see, these laws are not also applied to members of Operation Rescue and other "legitimate" groups that by their own by-laws promote radical action in the name of religion.

To paraphrase the play "The Man for All Seasons" -
"if you allow the chopping away at the forest of laws that stand to protect all citizens to go after the devil, what will stand to protect you when that devil turns into you?"

It is a moral imperative for the law and all agents and representatives of the law to remain true to the Constitution, not to the fears of the latest outrage or "danger" to our way of life.

Otherwise, the terrorists and provocateurs win.

And my concern with your post is the same as most of the other posters - what is it that you actually propose? Or are you just throwing out a stink bomb and blowing around the stink with cryptic comments suggesting that "the left" isn't doing anything so the mob can be turned against people who are actually trying to make sense of what is actually going on and trying not to let the all the small-minded haters - the terrorists and provocateurs - win.

Haele