NR: To Him It's All Bigotry

The editors of National Review have written about the administration's failure to identify Islamic terrorism as relatively mainstream.They explain Obama's unwillingness to so describe it in an interesting way.

The worst thing that one can be in Barack Obama’s world is a bigot. Racism is the original sin, and other forms of discrimination, from the genuine to the superficially similar, are corralled into the same moral category.

To Obama’s mind, the frank acknowledgment that the world has a problem with savagery rooted in a particular religion is an invitation to invidious discrimination — an invitation to becoming something even lower than al-Qaeda. And so the endless cheerleading for Islam and the search for comparable acts of barbarism by Christians or others, the purpose of which is to make sensitive people feel that we aren’t singling out Islam for criticism and scrutiny.

They appear to see it as an unfortunate unanticipated consequence of electing an African-American as president.