Islam and Intolerance

by Conor Friedersdorf

Andy McCarthy's latest asserts that "intolerance is not just part of al-Qaeda, it is part of Islam." It's a piece that gets right to the point:

Non-Muslims are barred from entering the cities
of Mecca and Medina — not merely barred from building synagogues or
churches, but barred, period, because their infidel feet are deemed
unfit to touch the ground. This is not an al-Qaeda principle. Nor is it
an "Islamist" principle. It is Islam, pure and simple.

Of course...