More on the irony of the Muslim world’s reaction to the Pope’s speech.

More on the irony of the Muslim world’s reaction to the Pope’s speech.

More on the irony of the Muslim world’s reaction to the Pope’s speech.

Lileks condenses all of the foolishness of the multi-culti left on our war of cultures into one neat column:

See, the real problem is the West and its bluenose brigade, its Wal-Marts and Hummers and Big Gulp lifestyles. The Christianists, as some clever equivocators call them, are an impediment to Utopia as great as the terrorists. No less a philosopher than Rosie O’Donnell said so on “The View” recently, proclaiming Christian fundamentalists and Islamicists equal threats to America. They’re both judgmental

Hard to disagree, at least for me:

Culturally and religiously we are on the defensive in this War on Terror. And it makes no sense to me. We accept immoral expressions of outrage by Muslims across the world and yet fail to have any of our own justified moral indignation at their actions. Instead we apologize for causing their reactions. Perhaps I should apologize to my four year old for his little temper tantrum this morning and for the time he slugged his sister in the face with a toy.

We hold the high ground – we believe in individual liberty, we believe in religious tolerance, we believe in women

Michael Totten has an interesting interview with an Israeli about Lebanon and Israeli politics.

Michael Totten has an interesting interview with an Israeli about Lebanon and Israeli politics.

Michael Totten has an interesting interview with an Israeli about Lebanon and Israeli politics.

From Catholic Ed Morrissey:

If Islam is ever to peacefully co-exist with other faiths in the manner that Christendom finally learned how to do, then it has to start abiding questions and criticisms without resorting to violence. Islam has to learn to persuade and to attract people through reason, not through forced conversions and coexistence through violent supremacy. Muslim leaders around the world still believe that our faith can only exist at their sufferance, and any question of their doctrinal beliefs has to be met with violence or demands for apologies, not with rhetoric, facts, and reason.

I’ve heard no denunciations from any Muslim of the forced conversions of the Fox News reporters a couple weeks ago. If anyone is aware of any, please let me know.

Victor Davis Hanson has thoughts on Oriana Fallaci and the Pope.