“Being unable to cause might to obey justice, men have made it just to obey might” --Blaise Pascal
"Progressive man" refuses to recognize the crimes of Islam, not because he is naive, fine-tempered or tolerant. He does it because, unconsciously or subconsciously, he has already accepted Islam as a religion of Salvation. As he accepted Stalinism, Hitlerism, Maoism and the "Khmer Rouge" before it...
Joseph de Maistre, French aristocrat of the early 19th century, argued that man cannot live without religion and not religion as such, but the tyrannical and merciless one. He was damned and hated, they called him an antipode of progress and freedom, even a forerunner of fascism, however progressivists proved him right again and again.