I’m an ardent admirer of the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens, but Bret, and the Journal in general, go a bit too la vie en rose for my taste when it comes to perceiving signs of reform and liberalization in the Islamic world. The Stephens column today, deliriously entitled “Religion of Peace” (and flagged in NRO’s web digest), is case in point. The column is the subject of a devastating deconstruction by my friend Diana West at her blog, The Death of the Grown-Up.