Our progressive political class

Bookworm makes a couple of good points:

Considering that the main victims of Islamic violence are other Muslims, we are exceptionally cruel not to support those who believe in Western pluralism. Of course, this is precisely what our Progressive political class does with blacks too. They throw their weight behind the thugs, while doing the two things that will most hurt the thugs’ black victims: chasing police out of the communities and leaving the victims unarmed. But that’s another post entirely….