'Today we witness the blatant desperation in our culture and media for a “moderate Islam” - an Islam that many non-Muslims vehemently insist exists..'

Front Page have a fascinating article that should be compulsory reading at the BBC.

'In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the question: What psychological impulses and neuroses prevent people from objectively considering whether or not Islam is a religion of peace? In other words: Why the rigid disinclination to even consider the evidence that suggests that someone like Geert Wilders might be right?'

A fascinating idea because the BBC and much other media report the utterances of Geert Wilders and others from the viewpoint that they are wrong and dangerous, no debate is allowed.

Here is the start of the 'symposium', I urge you to read the whole article:

'Today we witness the blatant desperation in our culture and media for a “moderate Islam” — an Islam that many non-Muslims vehemently insist exists, but that mysteriously eludes them. This moderate Islam will make everything better, we are told, once the “extremists,” who are the “minority” in Islam, will be sedated. This sedation will be most easily achieved, the argument continues, when the Islamophobes stop blaming Islam after Islamic terrorists point to Islamic scriptures in explaining what inspired them to perpetrate their terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, in terms of the planet that we happen to be occupying, a “moderate Islam” is nowhere to be found; no school of Islamic jurisprudence exists that counsels Muslims to renounce the Qur’an’s teachings on Islamic supremacism and the obligation of violent jihad. And yet, to suggest the truth of this reality in our culture gets one only the accusation of being a racist and an “Islamophobe.”'

The facts are out there and easy to find so why is so much of our media and our political class wilfully blind about the threat of Islam?