This exchange between Sean Hannity and Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison is frankly amazing.
Hannity asks whether we should be "investigating the Nation of Islam," to which Ellison responds, "I think we should be investigating people where there's probably cause to believe they've committed a crime...That's why we have a Constitution."
C'mon Keith, you know that you're supposed to support random government "investigations" of people you don't like. How else can you protect freedom if not by empowering the government to make sure everyone is thinking the right thoughts and saying the right things? And what's the difference between al-Qaeda and the NOI anyways? Laugh now, but soon you and your neighborhood might face the radical Islamist menace of a fresh bean pie.
Ellison tells Hannity to stop acting as though "only Muslims are the problem." The more persuasive argument, in my view, is that even if homegrown Muslim extremists pose more of a threat than others we're literally talking about .007 percent of the American Muslim community, and it's absurd to hold Muslims as a whole responsible for them.
