Spectacular-lack-of-insight alert

You can’t make this stuff up.  With regard to the Muslim outrage at Pope Benedict’s comments about aspects of Islam’s inhumanity, we get this:

“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.

I think that statement — from the most moderate of Islamist countries, yet — pretty much sums up why the liberal dream of negotiating peace with jihadists, rather than fighting them, is always going to remain a dream.  Rational discourse is not possible with a group that (a) holds ridiculously illogical views and (b) takes no responsibility for its failings and negative behaviors.

Hat tip:  Best of the Web Today