From Mark Krikorian of the National Review Corner says:
Rod Dreher gives an account of a meeting with Dallas Muslim leaders, whose evasiveness and attempts at intimidation nicely butress my comparison a while back (see here and here) between the patriotism of mainstream Japanese American opinion during WWII and the ambivalence (at best) of mainstream Muslim American opinion today.
Me: Read the Dreher account. It's exactly as I expected. After a most useful and insightful report of the Dallas newspaper's meeting with the Muslim delegation, Dreher offers some straightforward conclusions:
What I keep seeing from these meetings is an attempt -- a sincere attempt -- to mau-mau the media into ignoring disturbing things going on
in the American Muslim community. By all means we should cover the good stuff. The group the other day kept making the point, "You focus on the few bad things, and ignore all the good things." But charitable works don't somehow make it okay to include hate literature against Christians and Jews in your mosque, and certainly don't make it un-newsworthy. Being kind to others doesn't obviate concerns over what kind of fanatical jihad literature you're teaching to your teenagers. I do believe that most of the American media are unwilling to give this kind of thing the scrutiny it deserves. I'm pleased that my editorial board does not give them a free pass, and is not willing to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing -- even though it does cast into doubt the idea that Islam can be assimilated into American life.
It would help the case made by men and women like those of the delegation if instead of engaging in denial and trying to make journalists feel like heels for even raising questions, they would deal with them straight on. But to do that, I suspect, would amount to conceding that Islam, as they understand it, is incommensurate with basic American values.