In what was apparently supposed to be in part an ironic commentary on the failed NAACP bombing currently under investigation, leftist blogger Zaid Jilani—who has written for Slate, ThinkProgress, and a pro-Elizabeth Warren group—took to Twitter Wednesday to praise Muslim extremists, writing, "say what u want about muslim terrorists but at least they get the job done":
After the incendiary post was highlighted by FrontPageMag's Daniel Greenfield, Jilani deleted it, saying it was not a reference to the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Following the attack Wednesday, Jilani blasted out scores of tweets defending Muslims and charging many with anti-Islamic bias and hypocrisy concerning the freedom of speech. He also condemned those media outlets which chose to reprint the Charlie Hebdo images for the sake of the freedom of the press, at one point trying to draw a parallel between the satiric cartoons and Holocaust denial:
Greenfield provides the following bio of Jilani, which notes that his "excessive anti-Semitism" was even too much for Think Progress.
Zaid Jilani has many credentials as an activist of the left. He was a blogger at the Center for American Progress’ Think Progress site, the unofficially official spin project for Obama Inc,until he was fired for excessive anti-semitism, even by the standards of a site run by a man who had helped fundraise for Hamas before going to work for Nancy Pelosi.
Jilani went on to blog for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, also known as Bold Progressives, which is behind the Draft Elizabeth Warren campaign. He currently writes for Salon.
Democrats.org, the site of the Democratic Party, had also featured him as their youth activist.
