EclectEcon

Salim Mansur is a colleague at The University of Western Ontario. He is also a regular attendee of a group, including BenS and others every Saturday morning on the north end of London, Ontario, in which intense discussions rule the day. He is becoming increasingly well-known throughout the world as a lucid speaker and writer who happens to be a moderate Muslim. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Coalition for Democracy, which has circulated his latest column from the Trono Sun. Here are some choice excerpts:

As Islamist terrorism, however despicable, became mundane occurrence in the daily news cycle, the deafening silence of Muslims -- except for lonely voices of feeble opposition -- has given credence to growing numbers of non-Muslims that Islam is as much a religion of peace as the Klanmen's politics is an expression of multiculturalism [emphasis added].

But there is another side to this abject reality. The Muslim majority's silence is greatly compounded by the appeasement mentality in the West of the mainstream liberal-left media, politicians trolling for ethnic votes and bureaucrats running public institutions....

It is as if more diversity training for public officials, more accommodation of demands made by fundamentalist Muslims, greater willingness to self-flagellate for sins long past of western colonialism, more policing of what might be politically incorrect speech and writing about Islamists or Saudi Arabia's official cult (Wahhabism) of bigotry masquerading as a world religion, will somehow mysteriously translate into taming suicide-bombers and their masters to reciprocate kindly to the liberal-left sensibilities of people in the West.

How morally enfeebled... is the West?