Indiana Columnist Scolds Anti-Sharia Lieutenant Governor for Stoking ‘Hate’ Against ‘His Fellow Hoosiers’

Don Knebel, a hail-fellow-well-met feelgood columnist for the Indiana Citizen, is peeved at Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. It seems that Beckwith “recently said that we should give people ‘permission to hate again’ so they, like he, can hate Islam. He then wished Muslims, the practitioners of Islam, ‘the best,’ but only if they become Christians.”

Strong stuff indeed. Christians living in Nigerian villages might indignantly upbraid Beckwith, if they could get a breather from the more or less daily jihad massacres to which their loving Nigerian neighbors subject them. Knebel, however, is indignant enough for all of them. He is angry that Beckwith “calls Islam a ‘demonic death cult.’” He adds primly that “it is at least odd to describe as a ‘cult’ a