re: #27 Charles

I’ll never understand why this kind of rhetoric appeals to some leftists. By any objective measure, political Islam is diametrically opposed to what we think of as “Western” liberalism. No freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, brutal repression of women, the list goes on and on. This has always been the ideological reason why I worked to oppose militant Islam.

It’s insane (or at least, incredibly naive) to say we shouldn’t be worried about an Islamic theocracy in Egypt. Theocracy is a bad thing, period.

It’s a sad but true fact that a lot of what passes for emancipating thought in leftist circles is merely a romantic yearning for a somehow, maybe magically, just and benevolent tribalism or feudalism to replace the inavoidable contradictions of a free society.