Comments on: Extremism Thrives on Pusillanimity https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/extremism-thrives-on-pusillanimity/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Marc Pisco https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/extremism-thrives-on-pusillanimity/comment-page-1/#comment-2061018 Marc Pisco Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:02:32 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37189#comment-2061018 Doesn’t Kling know the point is that as long as one Muslim extremist is active, Cole and friends have an excuse to conduct witch hunts for those of their domestic political opponents who are secretly causing his extremism?

But those domestic “extremists” aren’t ever caused by an opposing extremism. In fact they’re emboldened by any lack of rigor in efforts to suppress them. Moderation in that specific case is no virtue.

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