Regression to the jihad

Democratization supporter Clifford May gets disillusioned. A moderate Muslim democracy supporter with whom May has been associated is now supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, and he’s doing it, moreover, on the op-ed page of the Washington Post, which kindly bills him as a “democracy activist.”

I told you so, Cliff. As I wrote in “The Search for Moderate Islam”:

When we make a cult out of “moderate” Muslims, we are, in the long run, helping Muslims gain power. Their moderateness will revert, sooner or later, to militancy, but they will still have the power—and the moral sanction—that we gave them.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 24, 2006 05:10 PM | Send