Andrew McCarthy, one of the right-wing professional Muslim haters which include Peter King (R-IRA), Pam Geller, and Frank Gaffney, has given us a handy utilitarian rationale for their demonization of Muslims.
A few days ago, the normally way off course Charles Krauthammer wrote a a piece in which he criticized Ben Carson for saying that a Muslim should never be president:
But it remains morally outrageous. And, in a general election, politically poisonous. It is certainly damaging to any party when one of its two front-runners denigrates, however thoughtlessly, the nation’s entire Muslim American community. Krauthammer continued, criticizing other Republicans needlessly alienating various components of the electorate: Muslims, Hispanics, women. What next? Who’s left? And along comes Mr. McCarthy, who disagrees with Dr. Krauthammer, saying: With Democrats in distress, the columnist fears Republicans are undermining their golden 2016 opportunity: “It is certainly damaging to any party when one of its two front-runners denigrates, however thoughtlessly, the nation’s entire Muslim American community.”But what loseth a man if he denigrates a tiny community — a large percentage of whose members are Islamists reliably aligned with Democrats — but gains the esteem of a vast political base convinced that Washington is insane on matters Muslim?
Short version of Mr. McCarthy: scapegoat Muslims to get more votes from the Muslim-haters.P.S. Mr. McCarthy appears to be trying to imitate the language of Mark 8:36. I wonder if he really understands what this means?
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?