They used to burn churches

A typically incisive post by Juan Cole.

People who would burn down a church to which George Washington had made a donation don’t care anything about American values.And people who would burn a mosque might as well buy a copy of the constitution and light it up.In the real United States it doesn’t matter what your religion is, and you can build your house of worship where you please, and you don’t have to be born here to be a citizen. Nativists believed the opposite of all these things. They formed a secret party in the nineteenth century that they called the “Know-Nothings.”They are back.