From that Washington Post story Kathryn blogged, re: conservatives’ irritation with President Bush for soft-pedaling Islam’s inherent violence: From the Washington Post: “These right-wingers are trying to set up a civilizational conflict with all their might in the same way as Osama bin Laden,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “We’re trying our darndest to prevent it but every day it’s looking more and more like it’s heading in that direction. . . . It really is getting a bit frightening. At some times I feel like a member of the Jewish community in Germany in the latter stages of the Weimar Republic.”