Some remarks made against El-Sayed and his family were indeed unacceptable – including Trump's mockery of his name by calling him “Mohammed El-Sayed” – but none of these remarks was made by Stevens. Moreover, this argument reflected a profound failure of moral reasoning, as though such remarks were comparable to the “context” El-Sayed offered for the actions of Ayman Ghazali, a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist who attempted to massacre worshippers at a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan: “Hurt people will hurt people.” Many Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, explicitly sought to shut down scrutiny of El-Sayed’s possible Muslim Brotherhood ties, including...