5 Feet of Fury

Mosque tour clears up misunderstandings about Islam. Except not really.

“It’s very skillfully done, really, and not just in Youngstown, Ohio. Is it ‘promoting tension and hatred’ to point out that Islam has a martial and supremacist tradition going back to the Qur’an and Muhammad, and that jihadists use that tradition today to gain recruits among peaceful Muslims? CAIR and others would have you think so, and have successfully cowed the mainstream media into thinking so too — with both liberal and conservative spokesmen fearing to discuss the connections between Islam and violence, for fear of offending Muslims and being seen as ‘promoting tension and hatred.’

“But the truth is just the truth. It is not bigoted or multicultural or blue or green, it is just reality. The truth does not become false because some people say it is bigoted…”