Clifford May, trying hard to make prejudice respectable:

In a new book, “The Flight of the Intellectuals,” Paul Berman, ponders why so many academics and journalists refuse to grapple seriously or honestly with Islam and Islamism. He concludes that multiculturalism and moral relativism, doctrines devoutly embraced by the intellectual elite, render “everything the equal of everything else.” As a consequence, some very smart people have “lost the ability to make the most elementary distinctions.” Except one: They reflexively regard those from the Third World as virtuous and those from the West as steeped in blame, shame and guilt.
Intellectuals won’t face Islam’s sins