Were Islam as peaceful as liberals assert, why would they need to purge our government of Christians critical of Islam?Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister of Malaysia, is "about as forward-looking a Muslim leader as we're likely to find," writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. Is this the same Mohamad who commented that the "Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy"? Yes, says Krugman, who calls the remark "inexcusable," then proceeds to excuse it as "rhetorical red meat" thrown to a "Muslim majority" in his country appropriately angry...