Net Neutrality--Google--Fairness Doctrine.

[Jester]

Yes. The article is telling us that Sharia is not a threat. Don't worry.

It sounds to me like you're giving Muslims a non-choice: if they say extreme things, they're extremists, and if they say moderate things, they're just lulling you into complacency so they can be extreme. What is he supposed to tell you, that his religion is in fact utterly incommensurable with the modern world, and that you should throw him and his co-religionists out of the country?

Or put another way, a Christian, when confronted with "god's law" according to the Bible, filled to the brim with slavery, child abuse, genocide, war crimes, self-flagellation, intolerance, racism, and assaults on innocent fig trees, should tell you that the Bible is a threat? Or should they tell you that context matters, and that these things can be interpreted in a way that makes them not harmful? Because that appears to be what Mr. Rauf is saying.

I don't like any of it. But it's biased to accept the mealymouthed excuses of one religion, but not another.

How can facts be paranoid?

Metaphors. It is the metaphor that is paranoid. Everything is boiling frogs if you look at it the right way. Any compromise, however innocuous, is unacceptable, because "the water is heating up." All moderates are the enemy, because they're just a cover for extremists.

Unless, of course, we're talking about a group we like. Then we can throw out all the untrue Scotsmen.

-Jester