If You Can't Lick Him, Smear Him

Robert Spencer was a guest this morning on the John Oakley Show. Speaking with his customary clarity and sagacity, he elucidated the jihad that, like it or not, lurks like an unlit match at the core of Islam. Not surprisingly his candor elicited more than a few critics--for none of whom, it was abundantly clear, was English their first language--who immediately accused him of taking the words of the Koran "out of context" and of being an unregenerate Islamophobe. Whereupon I imagined some of the faithful breaking into glorious harmony as they assayed a familiar doo wop song:

'Slam, 'Slam, 'Slam,
'Slamophobe, phobe, phobe,
'Slamophobe, phobe, phobe,
'Slamophobe, phobe, phobe...