Islamophobia...

in America is scaring the hell out of me. Politicians railing against members of a certain religion, blaming them for wrongs assailing our country, asserting they aren't like us, have cult-like practices, want to impose their way of life on us and are abnormally powerful, and stirring up a general mistrust and hatred of a religious group reminds me of Berlin in oh, say, the early 1930's. While rights for groups such as gays seem to progress, some politicians (Michele Bachmann, Sue Myrick just off the top of my head) seem to prefer the rights of Muslims be curtailed. Why? They surely are aware of crazy Christians and Jews and Sikhs and Quakers in this country who dream of killing in the name of their religion. Fire breathers like Hannity and O'Reilly invented a war on Christmas after some corporations decided to switch to "Happy Holidays", but when religious rights are actually being infringed upon, where are those self-appointed defenders of freedom of religion?