The rehabilitation of terrorist sympathizer Cat Stevens has now hit the mainstream.
What we’re seeing is something akin to the Cold War-era phenomenon of anti-anti-Communism. The anti-anti-Communist left, comprising large sections of the press, academy, and even federal bureaucracies, was simply incapable of understanding that the defense of American civil liberties did not depend on the uncritical defense of the rights of Communists.
Call this latest manifestation of liberal illogic anti-anti-Islamism. [Read up on Islamism]