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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

The Real Threat

By Matthew Yglesias
May 5 2008, 9:46 AM ET Comment

Professional crazy person Daniel Pipes explains that the real threat's not from terrorists, it's from peaceful Muslim moderates:

“It is hard to see how violence, how terrorism will lead to the implementation of sharia,” Mr. Pipes said. “It is much easier to see how, working through the system — the school system, the media, the religious organizations, the government, businesses and the like — you can promote radical Islam.”


You see, first Harvard starts trying to accommodate Muslim students who want a gender-segregated exercise space. From there, it's just a hop skip and a jump to taking over the school system and -- bam -- dhimmitude! All while Chamberlain-esque liberals were distracted by the mirage of violent radicals who kill people and wasted our time trying to build bridges with other Muslims to isolate and eliminate the hardest-core jihadis. Silly us.

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