Salman Rushdie is, for whatever reason, the one figure who makes people who otherwise ignore or deny the jihad threat and decry “Islamophobia” think it is acceptable to take a stand against it. Here is Rod Dreher, “Rushdie & Our Permanent Fatwa Culture,” The American Conservative, August 14, 2022: None of the bien-pensants of the […]
Rod Dreher: No need for “anxiety” about Islam in US, for “America will turn Islam into Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”
Rod Dreher of The American Conservative predicts: “This is why I don’t share the anxiety many conservatives have about Islam in America (Islam in Europe is a different matter, for particularly European reasons). For better or for worse, post-Christian America is going to turn Islam into Moralistic Therapeutic Deism too.” Are there secular Muslims in […]
Where are the Protests to Ban Islam’s Black Flag?
Even Southerners are calling for the retiring of the Confederate Flag. Where are the Moderate Muslim protests to ban the Black Flag of Islam? Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher has a really stirring piece in which he grapples with the complexity and pain of the guerre du jour, the movement to finally banish […]
Offer for Rod Dreher of The American Conservative: A Free One-Way Ticket to the Islamic State
Rod Dreher of The American Conservative writes: “I am more concerned today, in 2015, post-Indiana and post-Brendan Eich, with secularist threats to religious liberty and religious tolerance than I am with Islam in America — and if you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that’s a big shift for me.” Indeed it is. […]