Sen. Durbin's "Defend a Muslim Day" Hearing Already a Disaster

Sen. Dick Turban Durbin decided to hold a hearing in the Senate defending Muslims.  This was a response to Rep. Peter King's hearing on Muslim terrorism a few weeks ago in the House.  Durbin has already blown it:

The number two Senate Democrat, Richard Durbin, has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to highlight claims of anti-Muslim discrimination, but his primary Muslim witness has publicly excused a U.S. imam for revealing an FBI investigation to a Muslim suspected-terrorist.

Durbin’s bungled choice for lead witness is another in a series of Democratic flubs that have paired top Democrats with anti-democratic, terror-excusing Islamists in the United States. According to a report released today by the non-profit Investigative Project on Terrorism, Durbin has already added to the flubs this year by visiting a mosque in Bridgeview, Ill., and posing for a photo with two Islamists who were named as unindicted conspirators in an Islamist project to smuggle funds to the Hamas Muslim terror group.

Hamas is an orthodox and militant Muslim terror group that controls the Gaza strip. Since it seized control in 2007, it has allowed numerous missile attacks on Israeli civilian targets and it has established an apartheid-like system of laws that cite Koranic texts to justify formal and informal discrimination and abuse against women, gays and Christians.

There's more at the link. You'll remember that Durbin once famously compared our troops to Hitler. He seems to have a problem understanding who his friends and who his enemies are.

As I've said before, Durbin is kissing up to terrorists in the hopes they'll kill him last.