August 23, 2010 10:22 PM UTC

Heated Rhetoric Leading to Violence

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• by: Aristotle

Think Progress:

At an anti-Islam rally yesterday at Ground Zero, a person of color wearing a skull cap and wandering through the crowd was targeted with insults and nearly attacked by protesters for the offense of looking vaguely Muslim.

Here’s the video (WARNING: Audio NSFW):

Given all the heated rhtoric surrounding the Mosque, this is an unfortunate but completely unsurprising development. Thankfully violence was averted, but sooner or later someone will die unless the Right and the anti-Islamacists cool down their rhetoric. I remember how talk of “jack booted thugs” preceded the OKC bombing, so it’s not an idle concern.

In other news, shots were fired at Al Franken’s home.

HT to SLOG.