So did leftists running to the defense of Huma Weiner insisting she does come from a family of Islamist sympathizers extend similar support to Pat Buchanan and Larry Pratt years ago when Pratt allegedly spoke at a conference attended by a White separatist? If the family of a prominent aide to the Secretary of the Department of Housing And Urban Development or the Chairman of the Equal Employment & Opportunity Commission had ties to the Ku Klux Klan, would leftists extend the same benefit of the doubt?