New in PJ Media: Most of us outside of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its friends agree that the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie for having a less than fulsomely positive view of Islam’s prophet was wholly unjustified and that violence is never an appropriate response to words one considers offensive. Some analysts, however, […]
The American Conservative denounces Rushdie, complains that his book was ‘deliberately insulting to Islam’
Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, I wrote: “So now, because of the attack on Salman Rushdie, Dreher has at least temporarily abandoned his naive kumbaya irenicism and is acknowledging again that there is a jihad threat.” On Thursday, The American Conservative, where Dreher doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, published this […]
Rod Dreher and The American Conservative suddenly rediscover the jihad threat
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 […]
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. […]