National Review's Jay Nordlinger,
reacting to the Jeffrey Goldberg
interviews of Obama appearing in
The Atlantic. Obama is quoted about hostile Islamicists:
There is a violent, radical, fanatical, nihilistic interpretation of Islam by a faction — a tiny faction — within the Muslim community that is our enemy, and that has to be defeated.
To which Nordlinger responds:
I grant you that a tiny portion — a teeny-tiny portion — of Muslims carry out atrocities: fly planes into buildings and so on. If that were the extent of our problem, we would have a happily manageable problem. But a huge portion of Muslims either cheer on, defend, excuse, or don’t mind the tiny portion. And that is our problem.
Nordlinger's "huge portion" is a problem of which we need to stop importing more examples.
