Conservatives’ inane (i.e., liberal) response to the Islamic challenge

Kevin O. writes from London:

Is it just me, or are “conservative” web sites cracking up under the strain of opposing jihadism with nothing more substantial than cries of “free speech”? I haven’t made a studied listing of sites that prove my point, I just find that I’m turning more and more of them off (to use the analogy of TV channels) out of sheer boredom at the inanity of their commentary.

You mentioned recently that Hugh Fitzgerald had asked the previously unasked question, “What is ‘extreme’about Islamic ‘extremism’?” (I recently asked a similar question of Mohammedan apologists, posting anonymously on this link that you provided a few weeks ago with reference to arguments made there by Undercover Black Man.

A more fundamental challenge than this, however, is surely to question the veracity of the supposed Mohammedan revelation? As a Christian I have no problems in identifying Mohammed as a false prophet because I believe in the truth of the Gospels and the logical principle of non-contradiction tells me that Mohammed’s denials of the divinity of Christ must therefore be wrong. Others may have other ways of testing the truth of Mohammed’s claims, but surely that is key to the whole argument.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 04, 2006 09:49 PM | Send