{"id":5220,"date":"2017-09-21T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/why-are-leftists-so-tolerant-of-radical-islam\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:05:46","slug":"why-are-leftists-so-tolerant-of-radical-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/why-are-leftists-so-tolerant-of-radical-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Leftists So Tolerant of Radical Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">William Kilpatrick uncorked a powerful insight in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2017\/submission\">must-read piece<\/a> to which I linked yesterday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Because so many Americans still live mentally in a time when intolerance was considered the greatest evil, they have difficulty understanding that an indiscriminate tolerance can father just as many sins.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">That is part of the explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/05\/why-the-left-will-not-admit-the-threat-of-radical-islam-revised-and-expanded.html\">Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Kilpatrick uncorked a powerful insight in a must-read piece to which I linked yesterday: Because so many Americans still live mentally in a time when intolerance was considered the greatest evil, they have difficulty understanding that an indiscriminate tolerance can father just as many sins. That is part of the explanation. Related: Why the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/why-are-leftists-so-tolerant-of-radical-islam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Are Leftists So Tolerant of Radical Islam?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}