In case you missed it, video of Muslim student Saba Ahmed’s polite question during a recent Heritage Foundation panel and Islamophobic Brigitte Gabriel’s ugly, hate-filled and bullying response has gone viral. Tonight, Sean Hannity tried to recreate the confrontation – with his thumb on the scale, of course.
Dana Milbank wrote about the Heritage panel discussion for the Washington Post:
What began as a session purportedly about “unanswered questions” surrounding the September 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.
The session, as usual, quickly moved beyond the specifics of the assaults that left four Americans dead to accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the Obama administration, President Obama funding jihadists in their quest to destroy the United States, Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton attempting to impose Sharia blasphemy laws on Americans and Al Jazeera America being an organ of “enemy propaganda.”
Then Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice. “We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam,” she told them. “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.”
Watch what happens next in the first video below.
I have written many times about Gabriel’s unhinged Islamophobia – regularly welcomed on Fox, of course. Recently, she declared on the Hannity show that the father of newly-freed captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had spoken the “war cry of Allah” in the Rose Garden when President Obama announced the prisoner swap that resulted in his son’s release.
The second video is of Ahmed and Gabriel on Hannity tonight. Sadly, Ahmed seemed woefully ill-prepared for Hannity’s tactics and would not or could not come up with effective responses to his questions.
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