David Neiwert:

Media Matters directs us to the latest Coulter emission, wherein she shrieks like a harpy about conservatives’ lack of “manliness”:

Democrats have declared war against Republicans, and Republicans are wandering around like a bunch of ninny Neville Chamberlains, congratulating themselves on their excellent behavior. They’ll have some terrific stories about their Gandhi-like passivity to share while sitting in cells at Guantanamo after Hillary is elected.

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Patriotic Americans don’t have to become dangerous psychotics like liberals, but they could at least act like men.

Why hasn’t the former spokesman for the Taliban matriculating at Yale been beaten even more senseless than he already is? According to Hollywood, this nation is a cauldron of ethnic hatreds positively brimming with violent skinheads. Where are the skinheads when you need them? What does a girl have to do to get an angry, club- and torch-wielding mob on its feet?

Let’s be clear here: Coulter is not “joking.” She is seriously calling for “manly” conservatives to inflict violence on a college student who is in the United States legally. Moreover, she is calling for a similar kind of violence as an appropriate response to “unhinged” and “violent” liberals.

Every time some juvenile antiwar protester displays hatefulness on a poster or T-shirt, Malkin and others on the Right go ballistic over the dangerous, angry liberals. Prominent spokespersons of the Right can openly call for violence against lefties, however, and that’s OK.

I keep meaning to write something about the ex-Talibani at Yale, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, so I might as well do it now. You can read more about him here.

Hashemi was born into an Afghan family who fled the violence of the Soviet occupation when he was 4. After the family returned from Pakistan, Hashemi took English lessons from the International Rescue Committee, a U.S. charity.

Eventually, he ended up as a translator and “roving ambassador” for the Taliban, the ruling party at the time. In that role, Hashemi traveled in early 2001 to the USA on a hopeless mission to defend the bizarre Taliban regime, which was harboring Osama bin Laden, blowing up priceless archeological treasurers and oppressing women.

All of 22 at the time, Hashemi made a series of naive statements that linger as embarrassments. Most memorably, he appears in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, telling a female anti-Taliban protester, “I’m really sorry for your husband. He might have a very difficult time with you.”

When the United States invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 and toppled the Taliban regime, a funny thing happened to Hashemi. Thanks to a connection made with an American journalist years earlier, he ended up in the USA — cleared by the U.S. Embassy and awarded student status.

After a year in a non-degree program at Yale, Hashemi, now 27, no longer sees the world framed as a religious conflict pitting Muslims against infidels. “You have to be reasonable to live in America,” he told a New York Times reporter. “Everything here is based on reason. Even the essays you write for class. Back home you have to talk about religion and culture, and you can win any argument if you bring up the Islamic argument. You can’t reason against religion.” While he’s critical of some U.S. policies, and more so Israel’s, he also has criticized the excesses of the Taliban and has drawn support on campus. …

… Yale could do a lot for Hashemi, who has a 3.3 GPA and tells friends he hopes to return to the region to promote education, without which, he says, no country can make a transition to democracy. Hashemi could also help Yale students learn about life in a theocracy.

Ever since the New York Times published a long feature story on Hashemi last February, elements of the Right have been campaigning to get him tossed out of Yale.

I remember seeng this guy on television when he was still a Taliban spokesman, and I was not favorably impressed. Given his background I suspect U.S. intelligence is keeping an eye on him, as they should. But all indications are that he’s given up association with the Taliban and his focused on his studies. His friends say he’s no extremist. Instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to promote understanding between the Muslim and western worlds, righties choose bullying and enmity.

Bottom line, hard-core righties don’t want peace. They want war. Peaceful co-existence is outside their comprehension. Anything or anyone different from them must be eliminated.

Update: What’d I say? Raging lefties want investigations! They’re out of control!