The meaning of it all - almost
I've noticed a disturbing and quite annoying trend. Some people - such as the President of the United States - say Islam is "a religion of peace", then other people - such as the justifiably angry people at littlegreenfootballs - make fun of the term, then the cycle repeats. What's annoying is that last part, where nobody confronts the disconnect and we just repeat the process of not finding where the problem is.
Larry Elder has finally given us a glimse into this void by posting an interview with journalist Robert Spencer at WorldNetDaily. Spencer fills in the gap by describing where it is that we find the differences between the radical Islam we're at war with and the more moderate strain that occupies the mosques of the West, including many of those in the United States. He still doesn't address the core theology that would explain how the moderates have the justification to igore the more violent parts of the Quran (essential if any of us is ever going to have an intelligent argument with those poor muslims who aren't predisposed to violence but don't know better), but at least we now have a context that non-muslims can use to ask the right questions.
