Free speech doesn't mean free trust

You have the right to say nearly anything you want to in a political context, but what does it do to your credibility when you compare your opponents to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the kind of inflammatory invective that leads to violence. The action of Congress in the Schiavo case is certainly questionable on a number of grounds, but this statement seems to have the analogy reversed:

The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats . . . the tactics of Muslim fundamentalists and theocrats in places like Egypt and Pakistan. These tactics involve a disturbing tendency to make private, intimate decisions matters of public interest and then to bring the courts and the legislature to bear on them. President George W. Bush and Republican congressional leaders like Tom Delay have taken us one step closer to theocracy on the Muslim Brotherhood model."

If you want to incite violence, you have to first dehumanize your foes.