Posted 3:50 PM by Gene

PINCH goes RAH-RAH!

Yet this period also produced something strikingly positive, in the eyes of many Muslims: they began to mobilize politically and socially. Across the country, grass-roots organizations expanded to educate Muslims on civil rights, register them to vote and lobby against new federal policies such as the Patriot Act.

We hope we're forgiven for thinking this is code for CAIR and SUPERHOOPER. We say it again: no one wants any innocent Muslim to be wronged. Nonetheless the Muslim community must do its part and stop using IFS, ANDS, and BUTS about terrorism and the coming of sharia-based government -- and the CAIR vocabulary is full of them.

That said, a more diverse America can't hurt. Wasn't that our point in the first place?

“They have to prove that they are living here as Muslim Americans rather than living as Pakistanis and Egyptians and other nationalities,” said Zahid H. Bukhari, the director of the American Muslim Studies Program at Georgetown University.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with that, PINCH?