Freedom of assembly and worship? Nice ideas in our Constitution. But apparently a growing number of wingers don’t think they should apply to Muslims. A roundup here of the growing incidence of anti-Muslim political themes (stoked a little bit recently by the Democrat-Gazette story about the small progress toward a Muslim neighborhood development in Little Rock; happily nobody in Little Rock seems too concerned at the moment about law-abiding citizens who happen to be Muslim.)

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