About Strategerist, absolutely. He’s the foremost defender of islamists on Free Republic... and has been since John HK was banned. As far as he’s concerned, nothing is, was, can be or ever will be islamic terrorism. Not fires in California, not shooting sprees in shopping malls by muslim gunmen, not train bombings on the India/Pakistan border. Nothing. Ever. His rational, dispassionate analysis is always a road map to the same conclusion: that Freepers are knuckle-dragging islamophobes, while muslims are just convenient targets for our own inherent bigotry.
I can’t say for sure that the same names are always backing him up, but there are always a select few who follow his lead by repeating the same strawman arguments and adopt the same condescending tone. I suppose a search of his history here would reveal more about them.
Interesting.
Guess I’ll have to pay more attention.
I just figured he was a super rationalist . . . hostile to anything supernatural.