Guilt by association?

Professor Timothy Ash er ikke imponert over hvordan Bruce Bawer og andre høyreradikale "islamkritikere" forsøker å vri seg unna ved å definere ABB som ensom ulv og bare det:

But if it’s ridiculous to suggest there’s no link between Islamist ideology and
Islamist terror, it’s also ridiculous to suggest there’s no link between the
alarmist view of the Islamization of Europe these writers spread, and what Mr.
Breivik understood himself to be doing. ‘No “ideology” here’? You bet there was.

Ash mener slett ikke at fra bullshiten Bawer og det som verre er skal forbys eller stenges ute. Han mener disse skrudde ideene må møtes "in open combat" med fakta og saklig debatt. Doug Saunders sier seg i samme avis enig i at det ikke er noe "guilt by association", men retter likevel pekefingeren mot forfattere som Bruce Bawer og Robert Spencer:

But these writers have created a larger fiction, one with dangerous implications.
(...)
Now we know that the authors of these works are part of a continuum of response that includes violence at its extreme end. Their ideas should never be banned or outlawed. But these figures, like moderates in other such movements, have a responsibility to work to eliminate the threats that have emerged from their ranks. And we all have a responsibility to expose their dangerous fictions.

Mer i Globe and Mails reportasje 25.juli.