“As this sorry record suggests, the Washington Post has, in the years since 9/11, taken an unequivocal stand on Islam: in the name of liberalism and tolerance, it has chosen to minimize or overlook entirely the many extremely illiberal and intolerant aspects of the faith of Muhammed.”
I’m not sure I understand the basis of your fevered rant, Bawer. Are you suggesting that when a world leader speaks about a religion, he must also include all of the horrendous acts committed in the past and present by people who claimed to be acting in the name of the religion? There wouldn’t be very many religions that would look good in such an analysis. I suppose you also believe that Christianity had a role to play in the invasion of Iraq, since GW Bush claimed to be doing the work of his god. And also that whenever we talk about Christianity, we must also hurriedly and in the same breath recount not only all of the acts of terrorism committed in the name of the religion, but also all the crimes it has been associated with in the past.
This kind of two-dimensional thinking is too silly for words, and indeed, only organs like Pajamas Media would be so stupid as to post such intellectually indefensible crap.
