How’s this for a Downworthy headline? Earlier this week, the conservative Heritage Foundation sponsored a panel discussion on #Benghazi and a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf asked the panelists a question. What happened next will truly fulfill every negative conservative stereotype you can imagine.
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank doesn’t mince words when he describes the Monday afternoon panel as “ugly.” The discussion’s original purpose was to address “unanswered questions” about the September 2012 attacks on the American Embassy in Benghazi, and featured several prominent email forwarders and #tcot screamers, but it quickly went south. Here’s Milbank:
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.”
Okay. Normal nutburger stuff. But things got really embarrassing when American University law student Saba Ahmed softly asked a question from the back of the room about how a religion with 1.8 billion global followers, many of whom were devoted to peace, could be characterized as roundly terrorist.