Friday digest part I

- Apparently, a Christian leader suggesting that the concept of jihad needs to be clarified is akin to "re-opening a holy war" according to the headlines on CTV Newsnet.

Are we in the West expected to dumb down our long-held standards of scholarly discourse and intellectual inquiry now, too, lest we offend Islamists?

I love the line in this article from a Pakistani government spokesperson: "Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence".

So does it go like this?

Infidel to radical Islamist: "You're not tolerant".

Radical Islamist to infidel: "Oh yeah?"

Beheading of infidel by insulted radical Islamist follows, because radical Islamist is hurt by insinuation that he's not tolerant.

Sorta proves the point, doesn't it?