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I'll cut to the chase: Moron Ross forgets that historical European "conservatism" is very, very different from the modern conservatism that has a long history in America and which has, in the past several decades, found a home in at least Britain. American conservative criticism of Political Correctness and subversive elements of radical Islam is completely different from Continental European historical conservative criticisms of non-Europeans.

For heck's sake, read the whole article. He doesn't explicitly make that distinction, but it's implicit. It's why he keeps saying "the continental right" and "Europe’s cultural conservatives."

The problem, though, is that there's no impenetrable wall between Europe and the US, especially now with the Internet. This nut took a lot from some US and English-language websites, and Douthat is only being honest in acknowledging that.

Connections are going to be drawn, as they were in the Gore-Unabomber matter and the response has to be more than just a blanket denial. You can certainly disagree with Douthat. His isn't the last or best word on this case. But in a world where people will tell you that a fanatical anti-Muslim is somehow in spite of everything a "Nazi-Muslim", Ross isn't a moron.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I disagree. “We” as American conservatives, don't need to acknowledge any connection with this murderer. Ross is arguing for that admission as the point of his article — implying that American conservatism produces cultural chauvinism. That is not true.

[beandog]

Why yes he is, a moron that is.