SOME ADVICE TO THE SELF-STYLED PROGRESSIVES.

Peter Oborne pens some lines that I wouldn't expect to see in Common Dreams.

The supposed threat of Islam to the West is a myth.

Millions of Muslims have settled in the West to enjoy the benefits of Western life, and to contribute as workers, entrepreneurs and citizens.

Millions more are campaigning for the best of Western values: freedom of thought and expression, the rule of law, and equality of opportunity, in the face of obscurantism.

Free minds, free markets, emergence, assimilation, anyone?

He continues,

Yet, the latest spectacle of the meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and Orban should act as an important reminder of the monstrous threat posed to Muslims around the world.  If anyone is under threat it’s the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Muslim migrants in Hungary, and the hundreds of thousands of Uighurs still being held in detention camps.

That's a case for limiting the role of government, and dialing back the boutique multiculturalism that's OK with veiling women and other not-exactly-Enlightenment cultural practices in the name of authenticity.