The Islamists are driving us relentlessly toward the point where the world will ultimately have no choice but to suppress, delegitimize and outlaw Islam as a whole, the same way we have Nazism.

LMG, with all due respect, if the actions of a few thousand zealots was enough to do this, Christianity wouldn’t have survived the 10th century.

Sadly, the historical fact is that this kind of thing is very common; we like to think we’re above it now, but the last century of political progress can’t overwhelm millions of years of evolution.

Nor does it seem likely that exterminating a couple billion people, or putting them to “conversion or the sword”, is at all practical.

We’ll just have to come up with something else.