How liberals missed the true threat of ISIS

In the rush to self-criticize, liberals have missed the forest for the trees

ISIS is an apocalyptic death cult.
(Image credit: (Illustrated by Lauren Hansen | Image courtesy Xinhua/ZUMA Press/Corbis))

Few things satisfy a liberal more than exposing a double standard on the liberal side of a debate or dispute.

This is what Barack Obama was doing in his controversial Prayer Breakfast comments: pointing out that although we're quick to condemn ISIS for its religiously inspired atrocities, Christians have used religion to justify violence, too — in the Crusades, in the Inquisition, in the Jim Crow South.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.