NEW VILLAGE VOICE COLUMN UP...

...about the rightblogger response the Democratic National Convention and its speakers, including the father of Iraq war casualty U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan. At my time of filing Khan had mainly been denounced for his grief by fringe lunatics such as Pamela Geller, but he’s now getting it in some mainstreamier outlets: At The Hill, for example, Charles Hurt claims Khan “was tricked into smearing Donald Trump” by Hillary Clinton, who was only using him to promote her campaign, which Khan could not have possibly known when he accepted an invitation to the Democratic National Convention. The whole thing’s repulsive, but the worst part is Hurt telling Khan’s he’s all upset over nothing:

Despite all efforts by the media to distort Trump’s position about “banning” Muslims, he has made perfectly clear time and again that he does not want to ban all Muslims. He wants to simply perform thorough and complete background checks on all immigrants coming from countries presently in the grips of violent Islamic terrorism.

(Obligatory note that this is bullshit.)

Yes, that means if you are a Muslim who wants to immigrate from Syria or Afghanistan, you are going to get a lot more scrutiny than if you are a Jew trying to immigrate from Canada. That is most unfortunate, but not nearly as unfortunate as innocents getting slaughtered by 10th Century savages killing in the name of Allah.

So you see, Mr. Khan, our Muslim ban — which I’m denying is a Muslim ban because I’m talking to readers of The Hill rather than to a howling mob in Fritters, Alabama — is necessary because when you people aren’t dying for our country, you’re killing for Allah.