shows he just doesn't get it.
If he thinks the problem is with the folks admitting the reality of Moslem political ambition and Moslem violence, he is always going to seem dully benign and irrelevant on this topic. In doing so, he furthers the victim crouch of Islamists and not the interests of reformists.
I guess he really does think his role is to demand that people must pretend the problem doesn't exist. And that those who do see it must be animated by hatred rather simply admitting what they see under their noses.
This is not going to impress anyone except those who are determinedly blind. Islam is not the Eastern equal and opposite of modern Christianity. It isn't merely a "faith". It is something more and the violence it generates is not coincidental. To bring it into the twenty first century, Moslems have to give ground on pluralism and apostasy, at a minimum.
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