"Politically correct" DUers want to ban criticism of Islam

[Beet]

Why would liberals love a radicalized religious ideology that was started out of disgust for liberalism? The man who started Islamist fundamentalism, Sayyed Qutb (one of whose disciples was Ayman Al-Zawahiri, one of bin Laden's mentors) developed his ideology because he came to America and was disgusted at its secular liberalism. When he went back to Egypt he wrote a few books, became influential in the religious Muslim Brotherhood, and martyred himself opposing his country's secular regime, which he had supported until Nasser refused to adopt sharia law. After Nasser's defeat in the Six Day War, millions of disillusioned Arabs were fertile ground for the religious extremists to start spreading their views.

Qutb has a lot more in common with neoconservative godfather Leo Strauss, while his Pakistani counterpart Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (of Jamat-e-Islami), the man who first proposed the modern version of "jihad" was the most prominent muslim opponent of modernization, pluralism, and feminism.

Liberals will be the first, not the last, to criticize the underlying ideology behind radical Islamism.

[Beet]

Hey, I never said it made sense, ask dazzleman about his logic to that claim.

I think he was probably thinking about liberal support for multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the existence of different cultures within a broader liberal context. It does not mean cultures that do not accept things such as freedom of speech, or who accept violence as a political tool. What it does mean is tolerance of non-traditional cultures that are capable of coexisting with one another.