Historical nazism and present
time hate incidents were used to give them a free ticket, and the totalitarian communists, who had become unpopular even among leftist groups, could come up and disguise their goals and methods as «antifascism».
Valarie Kaur, a legal advocate and
hate crimes specialist, says proponents of anti-Sharia bills are battling an imaginary threat, and blames tough economic
times and an amplification of hateful speech for
incidents like the temple shooting and the momentum behind the anti-Sharia campaign.