By Chris Hedges

12/02/08 "TruthDig" -- - Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out at Christian colleges-a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy-to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the Family.

These men are frauds,

They defend the perpetual war unleashed by the Bush administration

McCain frequently reminds listeners that “the greatest danger facing the world is Islamic terrorism,” as does Mike Huckabee, who says that “Islamofascism” is “the greatest threat this country [has] ever faced.” George W. Bush has, in the same vein, assured Americans that terrorists hate us for our freedoms, not, of course, for anything we have done.

they offer a window into a worldview that is destroying the United States.

It has corrupted the Republican Party.

It grossly perverts the Christian religion.

It leaves us threatened