Deep-rooted conspiracy of giving Islam a bad name

Deep-rooted conspiracy of giving Islam a bad name

There is an old rule in politics and an older one in propaganda: if you want to weaken an idea, don’t argue against it—degrade it. Make it sound coarse. Make it look angry. Make it appear incapable of self-restraint. Over time, people will recoil not because the idea is wrong, but because it has been made unappealing. That is precisely what appears to be happening to Islam today, not only through the work of its external critics, but—far more da…