[chesley]

I don't think they can be awakened. I think they are totally brain dead.

To realize the threat that Islam presents to the modern world would require them to reject the world view they have invested their whole lives in. A conservative might have the intestinal fortitude to do that if he realized his world view (or portions of it)was wrong, but a liberal? I don't think so.

[Drew68]

To realize the threat that Islam presents to the modern world would require them to reject the world view they have invested their whole lives in.

Yes, but they are threatening something that liberals hold dear. Freedom of speech. Liberals don't like being told that they can't say, draw, paint, print or write something and when this happens they become defensive. It has been really interesting watching the liberal press deal with this conflict.