Intellectual of the Day

On her blog, conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel attempts to blame the shooting spree of a neo-nazi on...wait for it...Muslims! Not only them, but the liberals who supposedly defend them. You see, nice neo-nazis wouldn't shoot people if they weren't pushed over the brink by jew-hating Muslims:

Mr. Von Brunn has been on this planet for 89 years, and he didn't feel comfortable shooting up a Holocaust museum until now--this new era of "tolerance," in which we must tolerate the most extremist Muslim behaviors and sentiments...

No, it's guys with names like Mohammed and Ahmed on our own American streets who make Mr. Von Brunn far more at ease in 2009 than he was even in 1999 to attack places associated with the Jews. They created the comfort zone for James W. Brunn to engage in today's shooting.

Hmmm. So what's her excuse for Timothy McVeigh? And Hitler? There's more than a few holes in her thesis, but here's the big one: Von Brunn served six years in prison for attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve in 1981. She neglects to inform her audience of this since that crime can't be blamed on "guys with names like Mohammed and Ahmed."