The liberal love affair with Islam is perplexing. While liberals tend to hate traditional Christianity for its more socially conservative worldview, they insist on vigorously defending Islam and its adherents. From Jon Stewart’s moralizing, to Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s outrage at Bill O’Reilly, to President Obama’s recent droning about the “spirit of tolerance” in the Indonesian Constitution (in spite of Indonesia’s laws prohibiting speech offensive to Islam), we are forever sermonized that there is a gulf between Islamist extremism and the “vast majority” of normal Muslims, whom we would apparently love to have as neighbors and run into at Whole Foods.
via dailycaller.com
As they say, "Read the WHOLE thing." Very well done article that points out many of the similarities between Islam and Christianity that liberals refuse to acknowledge. It ALSO highlights some very important differences - and not to Islam's credit.
Well worth the read!
UPDATE: My friend Beth Cleaver (who used to blog at BamaPachyderm) recommended these two books on the topic: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left and United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. They both look like very informative reads, and I'm considering getting them on my Kindle...
The liberal love affair with Islam is perplexing.
After reading The Grand Jihad (highly recommended), I would disagree. It is a case of the left and Islam having many goals in common. Or at least I would argue such when it comes to the movers and shakers on the left. People that are more-or-less ignorant dupes--well, they're more-or-less ignorant dupes.
Posted by: Man of the West | November 16, 2010 at 10:12 PM
It all coincides well with the left's dalliance with Jew-hatred. Such wonderful "liberals," don't you think?
Posted by: Isophorone | November 20, 2010 at 10:46 PM