I think this is a fair argument and I think if I had to do it over again I might put it a bit more like this:

I think Jonah Goldberg and, by extension, Shelby Steele, are half-right with thinking that the relationship that the West has with Muslims is akin to the “white guilt” whites suffer from in dealing with blacks…
It’s not that whites deep down think they’re racists… it’s that whites feel they have no defense against being called racists… and, as such, avoid like the dickens doing anything that would give the other ‘side’ the opportunity to label them as such.