David's Daily Diversions

Contempt in the Press

Mark Steyn is his usualy brilliant self in the Daily Telegraph today, focusing on how the a supposedly secular press find intolerable anyone whose views are framed in any way by Christianity, but has all the time in the world for any issues raised by any Muslims.

Toward the end of the article, Steyn says:
Why is George W. Bush's utterly unremarkable evangelical Christianity so self-evidently risible but complaints from British Muslims hung up over the 11th century are perfectly reasonable and something we should seek to accommodate? Where is the secular Left's "insensitivity" when you need it? No doubt the bien pensants will still be hooting at born-again Texans on the day the House of Lords gives a second reading to the Sharia Bill.