Leftist Netherlands developing rationale to suppress all speech offensive to Muslims–and to leftists Leftist Netherlands developing rationale to suppress all speech offensive to Muslims–and to leftists

• The Monkey Cage: Very Good Advice Words and phrases to avoid, courtesy of Andrew Gelman:
• Note that
• Interestingly
• Obviously
• It is clear that
• It is interesting to note that
• very
• quite
• of course
• Notice that

Let me add “We see that.”

lgf: Quote of the Day I don’t even notice the color of his skin. I do notice the thinness of it, though. — Dennis Miller, on Barack Obama

Writing is also a bomb: The Moderate Muslim Threat from Planck’s Constant
The average American has no problem with our military bombing Afghanistan back to the stone age (as if it ever left the stone age) in retaliation for sheltering Osama bin Laden, but cannot see clearly to deporting Muslims because of some mistaken notion that Islam is a religion and fear that they would appear intolerant. It is never intolerant to fear and despise those who wish to destroy you. Most Americans cannot see the obvious danger that a small group of seemingly peaceful Muslims presents to our country.