(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - When it comes to building bridges between the Islamic world and the West, no amount of Western policy concessions is going to mollify Islamists. The real Islamist complaint is against Western culture itself. Yet that's a lesson that still hasn't been learned. Since 9/11, the West's approach to Islamism has been one long pre-emptive cringe. It's how we have come to handle the Quran with white gloves and shy away from reprinting the Danish cartoons. It's why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is now being represented in court by a military attorney wearing a hijab. It's why the phrase "Islamic terrorism" has become taboo.
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