He is now AFRAID OF LIBERALISM.........he views Liberals as dangerously naive about Muslim jihadism.

 

He received letters "from people young and old who occupy every point on the spectrum of belief and nonbelief.

 

This has offered me a special opportunity to see how people of all creeds and political persuasions react when religion is criticized. I am here to report that liberals and conservatives respond very differently to the notion that religion can be a direct cause of human conflict.

 

This difference does not bode well for the future of liberalism.

......my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.

 

On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.

 

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.

 

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.

 

This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy."

 

'Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.

 

"Given the degree to which religious ideas are still sheltered from criticism in every society, it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb — and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.

 

"....they offer an unusually clear view of the debilitating dogma that lurks at the heart of liberalism: Western power is utterly malevolent, while the powerless people of the Earth can be counted on to embrace reason and tolerance, if only given sufficient economic opportunities."

 

MORE AT:

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-harris18sep18,0,1897169.stor y?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

this is such a crock of shh.....

Yes anything you dont believe in is shit.