For this (actually, fairly good article), Tom Friedman might never be allowed to speak on a college campus again. Not kidding. He just took a pay cut.
Step 1: Admit that radical Islam is a death cult, which is mutually exclusive with freedom
STEP 2: Admit that Islam is at its heart radical. Violence is not a perversion of its teachings, but rather a manifestation of them
Well, that’s pretty amazing, thank for posting it. And it’s not just the Left that is infected with this “speak no Muslim” stupidity, it seems to have infested the Establishment on all sides.
So, good for Friedman for speaking the truth, because so far he is one of very few.
What gets me is that everyone on earth “gets” a joking reference to violent Christianity the basis of which is the knights of the crusades....THE CRUSADES A RESPONSE TO VIOLENT, ENCROACHING ISLAM!
His suggestion would be well and good, IF the goal of muslim immigration to Europe was absorption in to European societies and culture.
However, that is NOT their goal. Their goal is the complete takeover of all of Europe (and later the world) by islamists. And that means no efforts to "demarginalize" muslim immigrants will ever be successful.
It was amazing enough that they printed the piece by Marine LePen, but now one of their own is echoing her in an op-ed on the same topic: “When you don’t call things by their real name, you always get in trouble,” is Friedman’s reworking of the Camus quotation with which LePen opened, “To misname things is to add to the world’s unhappiness.”
(Yes, it might be spurious, but LePen noted that in her attribution to Camus.)
This is a good article but I still had to chuckle at:
“... I am all for restraint on the issue, and would never hold every Muslim accountable for the acts of a few....”
No, Mr. Friedman reserves that activity for times when a Republican says something stupid and he uses that statement to pain all Republicans with the same stupid brush.
I am SHOCKED . . . SHOCKED!
Did the NYT editors forget to eat their stupid cereal for breakfast? Not to worry, they be mindlessly munching on stupid cereal before long and will be back to normal.
Better double the guard at the Slimes HQ lobby.
But they’ll oppose any actual solutions.