Refreshing Realism on Islam

Paul Nachman, at V-Dare.com, on the growing realism about Islam in some quarters (and the persistence of denial in others):

At a September 30, Washington DC meeting of about 200 immigration-sanity activists, author Janet Levy showed us several brief-but-horrific videos of doings in the Islamic world. The two I recall showed an actual stoning of several miscreants (i.e. violators of Islamic law) and an interview with a three-year-old Arab girl who was well-versed in the Islamic demonization of Jews as “apes and pigs.”

Throughout her presentation, Levy referred always to “radical Islam.” During the next break in the program, I remonstrated, one-on-one, with her that she’d really been talking about mainstream Islam — her subject needn’t and shouldn’t have the word “radical” associated with it.

Levy readily agreed with me, but explained that she’d doubted this audience was prepared to hear a truth as unvarnished as that, so she’d systematically said “radical” before “Islam,” simply to keep the audience with her...

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