Why Moderate Muslims Are Like Fairies - And Tory Eurosceptics

Via the comments on a post over at A Tangled Web, we find this wonderful essay by one Andrew McCarthy, dissecting and demolishing the myth of 'Moderate Islam'. Moderate Muslims are, I would suggest along with Mr McCarthy, mythical beasts rather like 'Good Conservative Eurosceptics' as my father once put it - like fairies appearing at the bottom of the garden, they are only seen at certain very specific times (when their friends have bombed their host country and right before British Elections respectively).

I'd been meaning to write something like this for a while - what an obliging chap he is to have not only saved me the trouble but also to have nailed it far better than I would have. He doesnt swear at all, either.

Read it all.