We used to get these articles a lot. They aren't as popular now, but they are still around. Marvin Olasky's latest, "Beyond Wishful Thinking About Islam," is a good example of the type.
Mr. Olasky doesn't want to appear bigoted, of course, so he does admit to there being a debate within Islam between moderates and militants. He does not acknowledge, of course, that our invasion of Iraq has given the militant side of equation a huge rhetorical advantage.
He makes it clear that the Militant Islamists have at least parts of the Koran on their side, and that Muhammad himself approved beheadings. He doesn't mention how various Christians who lived in Muhammad's time executed their prisoners and criminals, but presumably that's irrelevent.
And he closes his article with this bizarre formulation. "It's certainly time to enter into discussions with Muslims without offering either appeasement or shotgun-blast aggression." How have we appeased the Islamic World? Not at all as far as I know. As for shotgun-blast aggression, one might think that was a reflection of our invasion of Iraq. But I doubt that is an interpretation Mr. Olasky would support.
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