Pass this along to anyone you know who is in one of those "interfaith forums" or "diversity councils"

Andrew McCarthy on what the problem is with the Islamic world: Islam.

A couple of money lines:

"The main lesson of the Arab Spring ought to be that this remaking of Islam has happened only in our own minds, for our own consumption."

"Islam constitutes a distinct civilization. It is not merely an exotic splash on the gorgeous global mosaic with a few embarrassing cultural eccentricities; it is an entirely different way of looking at the world."