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Martha Lee

Its Florida branch is attempting to exploit the political climate in the United States and heightened media interest in civil-rights violations to present terror supporters as dedicated activists—punished, ostensibly, merely for being minorities.
While many consider some of his new proposals promising, what the president of France left out is worrisome. Moderate Islam in the West requires reformist voices; not French bureaucracy and deputized lawful Islamists.
It’s important that the movement has stood up to the hardliners and not backed down; far too often, progressive organizations find it easier to ignore acts of bigotry for the sake of placating vocal Islamist demands.
While American Islamists whitewash Al Odah, the truth is that he is an unreconstructed anti-Semite and extremist.