. . . and finally concede several things that I’ve never ever doubted or denied:
Yes, it’s true that far too many contemporary Muslims are engaging in horrific violence in the name of God.
(You can stop jamming the bamboo splints under my fingernails now.)
Yes, I admit that there are passages in the Qur’an that can be, and have been, interpreted as legitimating such religious violence and other acts of repression.
(Please don’t turn the crank on the rack any further.)
Yes, yes. I acknowledge that there are people out there, including many Muslims, who seek to do us harm.
(Enough! Enough brilliantly cherry-picked quotations from sensationalistic anti-Islamic websites! I can’t take it any more!)
Yes. I surrender. I give in. Under duress, I grudgingly admit what I’ve often said before: We need to carefully vet people who come into our country, and to gain some semblance of control over our borders.
(I hereby promise that I’ll read something about Islam so that I can be as expert as many of my online critics regarding the subject.)
Yes, I recognize, finally, that the Muslim world isn’t a utopia, and that, in fact, there are large elements of severe dysfunctionality in it.
(I will abandon my left-socialist libtard views. I will, if given the chance, endorse Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, as I always did. I will, as usual, praise William F. Buckley Jr. and Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek. I’ll keep my subscriptions to National Review and the Weekly Standard going. I’ll continue, when I can, to speak at the annual libertarian Freedom Fest convention. I’ll keep on voting for Senator Mike Lee. I’ll persist in thinking that Antonin Scalia was a great justice of the Supreme Court and that Neil Gorsuch will be a wonderful replacement for him. I will, in other words, cease and desist from being the Communist-leaning pseudo-intellectual that several of you have perceptively recognized me to be.)
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