From Maher to Geller and Frum, pundits want to fight back hard against Islam. This kind of talk always ends badly. Jeffrey Tayler, a contributing editor to the Atlantic, has joined the Atlantic’s David Frum and Jeffrey Goldberg to warn Western liberals against quieting, solely at their own discretion, the kind of “free speech” that shocks and offends Muslim immigrants. Liberals who warn against “Islamophobia” need to acknowledge that Islam is more absolutist and brutal than its Abrahamic cousins, Judaism and Christianity, Tayler tells us in a Salon piece.Not only that, Goldberg decides that Islam’s adherents …read more
Source: AlterNet
