Paul at TvM reviews Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs by Robert Spencer:

A recurring theme is how Islamists target non-Muslims who resist the subversive Islamic supremacist campaign. Chapter Four “The International Jihad Against Free Speech” discusses controversies such as surrounded the 16-minute film “Fitna” by Dutch politician Geert Wilders and America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn (the darkest and most illuminating book that I have read in a while).

To understand how Islamic supremacists subvert US security by exploiting the bureaucratic and legalist mechanics of PC sensitivities, I urge leaping to the final two chapters. The penultimate, Chapter Ten “Compromised” recounts the most prominent US security compromises to accommodate Islamists, epitomized by the philosophical dispute between U.S. Army Reserve Major Stephen Coughlin, a top non-Islamic expert on Islamic law at the Pentagon, and Hesham Islam, special assistant for international affairs for the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Gordon R. England. Coughlin’s contract at the Pentagon was not renewed.

That’s the problem with small-“l” liberal democracy; its enemies turn its freedoms – and, as we’ve seen on American campuses, which would seem to be a vehicle for proving Parker’s thesis, its most closet-authoritarian tendencies – against it.

So what to do?  Well, for starters, continue throwing brickbats at the worst excesses of political correctness in this country. Find the place where it ceases to be a vehicle for positive change – I don’t really care if the “N-word”, “faggot” or “semprini” are ever acceptable in polite company again – and becomes a vehicle for petty authoritarianism and, as Spencer notes, worse.

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