Radical Islamism, Postmodernism, and the Threat of Moral Murkiness
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Not President Obama, who spoke briefly and murkily about what drove Omar Mateen to murder scores of innocents in Orlando earlier this week before speaking at length about the murderer’s tools of choice. Not former State Department official and current Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, who chastised a reporter on Twitter for giving context about ISIS and its ties to similar attacks. And certainly not the New York Times: In his new column for the Paper of Record, unimprovably named The Interpreter (a name lifted, by the way, from an outfit much more deserving of the mantle of clarity), the impeccably idiotic Max Fisher huffed at any rube simple enough to blame Sunday’s attack on “radical Islam.”
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