Dinesh D’Souza: Liberals Always ‘Coddle’ Radical Islamists

‘They’re willing to suppress free speech on the campus’

"Here is the point: either words are like bullets or they're not. If they're like bullets, then the Muslims are right, that by insulting them, you're in effect verbally shooting them. And they have the right to come back and then actually shoot you. So if you want to defend free speech -- by the way, this is not just a constitutional right under the American Constitution -- it's a right affirmed in all liberal societies and it’s a particular irony of our time that it is we conservatives who have now become the defenders of the liberal tradition while these so-called liberals coddle this Islamic radicalism. They are willing to suppress free speech on the campus, so they are licensing the curtailment of speech and in a sense acceding to the Islamic radicals who say, ‘Listen, you want to outlaw speech on campus, we want to outlaw it by shooting people.'"

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