There is little doubt in my mind that the New Statesman magazine is suffused with the worst political correctness and abject apologia at the success of Western, liberal, open, capitalistic society. To its great credit, however, it also often gives space to dissenters from that Guardianista orthodoxy.
Those two faces of its personality are well displayed in its issues of 2nd – 8th May.
In the leader column the New Statesman declares "overwhelmingly, most Muslims, whether as a minority in Europe and the United States or in countries where Islam is the dominant faith, are no more or less peaceful than any other people on planet". That may or may not be so.
But how peaceful do the Muslim majorities, let alone the Christian minorities, find it in countries under Muslim majority rule? [The Telegraph] Read more
