News from the war against Islam

The Bombing of Mali Highlights All the Lessons of Western Intervention

Glenn Greenwald says oh yes we are – we, the West – fighting a war against Islam, dammit.

Well, that’s true, sort of.

But, after all, that was the part the Islamophobes always had right.

There really isn’t any sharp distinction between Islam and Islamism.

They are all Islamists, is one way to put it, varying along a continuum from the less to the more active.

We call the more active “Islamists” and the less active “moderate” or “ordinary” or “peaceable” Muslims.

But they’re really all just Muslims.

Still, spectacular but exceptional terrorism in the Occident aside, Muslim activism remains a problem primarily, worldwide, for Muslims and the non-Muslims unlucky enough to live where there is a significant Muslim population.

And all of that is very far from the US.

In the late 19^th Century America had the wit to let the British chase the Mahdi.

We should imitate that exemplary wisdom with regard to Islamists, Jihadists, terrorists, or any other variant of annoying Islam.

Or the French, as the case may be.

Mali Islamists tougher than France anticipated

Or the governments of majority – or minority! – Muslim states that don’t want to be all that bloody Islamic, thank you.

Some hostages are reported killed in Algerian operation

Greenwald is blind to those governments, when he isn’t slandering them as stooges of the West, and to their own participation, diplomatic and outright military, in the “war against Islam.”

But that’s just Greenwald, the leftist crank.