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The moral compromise we’re caught in once we have Muslims among us
Last year “Captain Ed” Morrissey made a whale of an error (he said the Brown decision was famous as an “originalist” decision, when in reality it’s famous, even among its supporters, for ignoring the Constitution), and though I twice wrote to him pointing out the mistake, he never issued a correction. I couldn’t take him seriously after that, and stopped visiting his site, Captain’s Quarters. But a reader has just sent me a Captain Ed piece on the Canadian Muslim who helped stop the recent planned terrorist attacks by 17 Muslims in Canada. The informer is a devout Muslim who advocates sharia law in Canada. This puts Captain Ed in a quandary. Should he approve the guy for defending Canada from terrorists, or disapprove of him for wanting to turn Canada into an Islamic state? What Cap doesn’t grasp is that such dilemmas are inevitable once you allow a large population of Muslims into your country. Since all human groups and belief systems including Islam consist of a spectrum, with some members being more extreme and others more moderate, you are naturally going to be drawn to approve of the relatively “good” Muslims, even though they are still objectively your enemies. There is only one way to avoid this trap: If Canada did not have any seriously believing Muslims within its borders, it would not have needed a sharia-supporting Muslim to protect it from a Muslim terrorist attack in the first place.
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