I had conversation with another FReeper a while ago... wondering what we could do to wake people up. Islam can not stand criticism, because the it will reveal the ugly truth about its founder, and his vile intolerant ideology.
It's like a darkness that can not stand the light.
I ask myself what proportion of the general population know what words like dhimmi, darul harb or bidah mean, and how we may make real progress in the WOT if folks were more informed.
The enemy knows this too, and this is precisely what they fear.
The west survived convulsions based on religion and race during the Nazi and Shinto military cult regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s. We thought we were protecting the human race by inoculating ourselves against cultural prejudice. This, and I believe America's recovery from its own, bitter Civil War, were the historic seeds planted that produced Political Correctness. Don't have any strong opinions; don't categorize people by their culture; don't hold strong opinions unless they are against people who do have strong opinions.
And so on.
Islamists are using this very fear of strong dislike for savage cultures against us.