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ANDREW BOSTOM: Geert Wilders, Western Sages, and Totalitarian Islam. ?Wilders? assessment not on?

By Glenn Reynolds

ANDREW BOSTOM: Geert Wilders, Western Sages, and Totalitarian Islam. “Wilders? assessment not only comports with scholarly observations made (primarily) before the advent of the postmodern Western scourge of cultural relativism, it is supported by contemporary hard polling data from 2006 -2007, and a more recent follow-up reported February 25, 2009. At present, overwhelming Muslim majorities ? i.e., better than two-thirds (see the weighted average calculated here) of a well-conducted survey of the world?s most significant and populous Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries ? want these immoderate outcomes: ’strict application’ of Shari?a, Islamic law, and a global caliphate.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).