This NYT Op-Ed Writer Apparently

…didn’t get the memo.

Islam and the West at War

After a Danish movie director at a seminar on “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression” and a Danish Jew guarding a synagogue were shot dead in Copenhagen, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the prime minister of Denmark, uttered a familiar trope:

“We are not in the middle of a battle between Islam and the West. It’s not a battle between Muslims and non-Muslims. It’s a battle between values based on the freedom of the individual and a dark ideology.”

This statement — with its echoes of President Obama’s vague references to “violent extremists” uncoupled from the fundamentalist Islam to which said throat-cutting extremists pledge allegiance — scarcely stands up to scrutiny.

It is empty talk.

3 Responses to “This NYT Op-Ed Writer Apparently”

1. leelu says:

   February 16, 2015 at 12:02 pm

   It’s an effing religious war.

   Period.

2. aelfheld says:

   February 16, 2015 at 5:37 pm

   77 years on and the appeasers are more numerous than ever.

3. Syd B. says:

   February 17, 2015 at 10:54 am

   The right believe what they see.

   The left see what they believe.