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I had typed up the following off line earlier this morning.This is as good a place as any to put it for your later reading and consideration.

I didn't see it posted but did anyone catch Bret Stephens oped in WSJ entitled The Liberal's War? on September 13?

Stephens quoted from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the "Somali-born, former Dutch parliamentarian whose outspoken opposition to Islamism and to Islam itself forced her repeatedly into hiding and now into exile in the United States"

Ali says (although it pertains to Europeans, certainly translates here, as well)

"They think that by appeasing them, allowing them their own ghettoes, their own Muslim schools, they will win with friendship."

"A second factor, she says, is the superficial confluence between the bugaboos of the Chomskyite left and modern-day Islamism... but the really 'lethal mistake', she says, is "the confusion of Islam, which is a body of ideas, with ethnicity.' ...

"Liberals especially are reluctant to criticize the content of Islam because they fear that it is tantamount to criticizing Muslims as a group, and is therefore almost a species of racism. [Stephens]"