Pete King, America’s new McCarthy

Peter King protest“Let us call this what it is: bigotry draped in the American flag – nothing more than a fear-mongering attempt, drenched in political theatrics, laced with reactionary hatred, and deceptively packaged in an incredulous label of national security.”

Seema Jilani addresses an open letter to the chairman of the homeland security committee over the House hearings on “homegrown Muslim terrorism”.