Andrew McCarthy: “Intolerance is not just part of al-Qaeda, it is part of Islam”

Andrew C. McCarthy writing at National Review Online: “Non-Muslims are barred from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina . . . Nor is it an ‘Islamist’ principle. It is Islam, pure and simple . . . Saudi Arabia, the country from which 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers hailed, abides no pluralism or religious freedom . . . the regime prohibits these infidels from polluting the kingdom with their Bibles, crucifixes, and Stars of David . . . In an Islamic country like Saudi Arabia, where they are in a position to impose sharia in full, that is exactly what they do. In other places, the degree of imposition depends on relative Islamic strength, and it increases as that strength increases . . . The President may not have noticed, but the commitment of the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood to religious intolerance is utterly unshakable.”