He should have called it “radical fascist Islamist extremism caused by poverty, prejudice, despotism, cultural dislocation, sexual frustration, and high birth rates”—then he would have kept his job

Stephen Coughlin, the Defense Department’s specialist on Islamist extremism, has been let go from his job, because, well, because he declined to provide a non-Islam theory of Islamic extremism. His position is that Islam is the source of Islamic extremism. Bill Gertz reports the story in the Washington Times and Andrew Bostom expands on it at his blog.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 05, 2008 05:48 PM | Send