“The dazzling fiction writer and the pedestrian social-democratic politician are for Steyn dual exemplars of his book’s main concern: the general apathy and surrender of the West in the face of a determined assault from a religious ideology, or an ideological religion, afflicted by no sickly doubt about what it wants or by any scruples about how to get it.”

The trouble with Steyn is that he has NOT effectively criticized Islam itself as the ideological religion, he has only criticized the religious ideology (the radicals within Islam). Why is Steyn considered one of our foremost Islam critics? I have yet to see a realistic (or for that matter, any) proposal from him on how to deal with separating and protecting the West from Islam. Or is a “win” on this topic insignificant in his eyes? The Democrats do as much with their lack of a plan.

Islamism, radical Islam, Islamofascists and other selective terminology ad nauseam do not describe the problem, which is Islam.