You say that like it’s a bad thing

Jonah Goldberg gets mail from an ex-Muslim, who buries the lede:

But if somehow we could inculcate the French-pantywaistism in Muslim lands, maybe they would be too busy complaining about the cloudiness of the wine or runiness of the hummus to consider murderous Jihad.

I am of course being flippant, but honestly, short of turning the whole place into glowing radioactive glass, I don’t see any other cure which preserve the life of our own citizenry in the short- to medium-term.