Steyn ping!
1. I think some of the media is just beginning to realize how barbaric and uncivilized Islam is. Examples: (1) this week, Brit Hume said something to the effect that the Koran does call for tolerance and freedom of religion, doesn't it? (2) On O'Reilly's radio show yesterday, he basically admitted that he did not know until very recently what Islam is like and now he wonders if we should even be over there. (To which his guest, Cal Thomas, said "they're coming after us anyway".)
2. When Bush calls Islam a "religion of peace", I wonder if he knows what it is really like.
3. Instead of dealing with Islam, to quote Andrew C. McCarthy of the National Review Online, with "polite fictions" and "airy ambiguities", we need to recognize them for what they really are and deal with them that way. The British handling of "suttee" in India sounds like a good approach.
4. The media and the politicians need to lose the "political correctness" with regard to Islam and tell us how it really is.