"Barista-terrorista, why is this coffee giving me Tourette's-like spasms of political correctness...?"

Not too long ago, Robert Spencer was interviewed by a barbershop quartet of Italian wise guys subbing for Joe Piscopo -- the ambiance, needless to say, was no-nonsense neo-con with a whiff of street-wise Rudy Giuliani conservatism in the studio.  The panel was Frank Morano, Anthony Pope, John Tabacco, and Al Gattullo (what a name -- "John Tabacco"!).

Just 5 minutes or so into it, after trading pleasantries and after Spencer began sketching out the basics of the the alarmingly horribly nature of Islam through the ages into our time now, including passages in the Koran commanding open-ended warfare against unbelievers, one of the three Italian guys just had to have an anxious spasm of double-virtue signalling:

Just to be fair, isn't it true that there are more than a smattering of violent suggestions in the Bible?

And Spencer responded:

Yeah, sure, absolutely. There have been 30,000 jihad attacks around the world since 911.

The Italian goombah went on:

And you say, in the Koran this chapter says kill, this chapter says behead, this chapter... but the truth is, like Frank was saying before, 99% of the people out there are not so zealous --

With which Spencer rejoined:

Yeah, sure.

Italian gumbazzo:

-- that they're following the Koran down to those three citations.

Spencer:

Yes, exactly.

Joey Pants winds his anxious spasm of politically correct multiculturalism to a finish:

Most people who follow Islam, and Muslims, they don't take it to that zealous end.

Spencer's response -- instead of schooling this needless, senseless and recklessly irresponsible spasm -- had to throw a bone to it:

This is the thing about it. There have been 30,000 jihad attacks around the world since 911. All of them by people who point to the Koran to justify what they're doing. How many attacks have there been by people who point to the Bible and say "I'm killing people because the Bible has Joshua going in and clearing out a city"? Absolutely zero. So you've got in the first place a big difference in interpretation, that the Koran teaches these things as open-ended commands of warfare against unbelievers, and the Bible doesn't. And obviously this is how Muslims are taking it. And yes, there are many Muslims who are not doing this,