ER, I’m not looking to place blame. But PC has turned into a kind of Linus’ Blanket for a lot of increasingly irrelevant 60s-based folks. Raheel Raza is trying to express an internal Muslim issue in the context of Western confusion. If you take umbrage, then accept Clarion’s invitation to state your case.

Muslims often call simultaneously for tolerance and understanding as well as for violence and aggression. In fact, both options are present in the Qur’an and the sunna. These are two legitimate manners—two distinct ways to interpret, to understand, and to live Islam. It is up to the individual Muslim to decide what he wants Islam to be. This is a kind of freedom, but can we live with it?

It is better to confront the Islamists rather than seek to persuade some Islamists to police others. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed to designate the Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization in legislation filed Nov. 3; this measure would make CAIR’s position untenable given its multiple connections to the Brotherhood and its affiliates. A substantial part of French opinion favors similar toughness, judging by the record 28% vote for her National Front in Sunday’s regional elections.

Muslim community leaders must be persuaded that their interests lie in cooperating with security services rather than in abetting terrorists. In the United States, a few dozen Federal prosecutions and a hundred or so well-publicized deportations of prominent Muslims in the CAIR orbit would turn thousands of Muslim immigrants into willing snitches for the FBI.

An analogue of The Enlightenment, the revolution of science and philosophy in the 18th century, stemming from the progress in individualism and rationality during the Reformation, is what Islam doesn’t share with the West. Islam didn’t go through the equivalent of the 30 Years War and the Peace of Westphalia.

We have to recognize that Muslims , nominal and otherwise, comprise at most 25% of the world’s population. A large minority, but a minority. The pressing requirements of globalization, including the increasing fragility of all society, ecologically, intellectually, demographically, DOESN’T HAVE THE SPACE to tolerate the tantrums of this minority.