“[I]t is a parody of political correctness to argue that a hearing on domestic terrorism cannot focus solely on the Muslim community to be acceptable.” Now there’s a sentence you might expect from Charles Krauthammer. Except he didn’t write it. Rather, these are the sentiments of Washington Post liberal columnist Ruth Marcus. And what she has to say in defense of the upcoming hearings on radical Islam in America is sure to rile her left-leaning colleagues.

“[T]he unavoidable fact is that, however much violent terror reflects a distortion of the tenets of Islam, it is not only practiced by adherents of the religion but practiced in its name,” Marcus explains. “To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. To ignore the homegrown religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb even further.”