stop.

how many muslim immigrants do you see at the queer rally? at the environmental rally? at the workers rallies? at the women's march?

the reality is that there's a lot of policy space in between open arms and total bans - and that i don't happen to feel a lot of solidarity with this particular group, which tends to lean very far to the right.

my position on the burka ban last year was that i'm opposed to a government operated fashion police, not that i have any intellectual or emotional investment in the idea of "religious freedom" - which i consider to be a contradiction in terms.

they have legal and constitutional rights that should be upheld. i'll agree with that statement. i can offer legal opinions, and uphold the law as it stands - and agree in an abstract, intellectual way. but, this doesn't hit me in the gut. and, i'm not going to go out of my way to stand up for them, or let it affect my voting decisions.

they're just not allies to a secular, leftist vision. i'm sorry - but they're not.