Affleck’s affliction: Liberals mute on Islam’s woes

The New York Post reports:

Maher had zeroed in on one of the more perverse aspects of contemporary politics, which is that self-consciously tolerant liberals often look the other way when confronted with the intolerance of the Muslim world.

For them, saying discouraging things about Islam feels too judgmental. It requires insisting on the superiority of some Western standards. It means jettisoning the comforting fictions of multiculturalism.

It entails resisting the reflex to consider any criticism of the Third World as presumptive racism.

Ouch.