Thanks to (once again), David Galbraith for the tip to this article.
A large tranche of the once-secular liberal left has disqualified itself by making excuses for jihad and treating Osama bin Laden as if he were advocating liberation theology. The need of the hour is for some senior members of the party of Lincoln to disown and condemn the creeping and creepy movement to impose orthodoxy on a free and pluralist and secular Republic.
I don’t know much of Christopher Hitchens’ work; I think I need to brush up. Great Op-Ed.