Even many Conservatives have gone Politically Correct on Islam

Ironically, the most popular event at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend was not one of the official, from the main stage speeches, but rather an "unofficial" side panel discussion, featuring libertarian anti-Islamo-Fascist "rock star" Pamela Geller and Islamic Jihad expert Robert Spencer.

From reporter Kelley Beaucar Vlahos FoxNews.com:

The speakers participating in "Jihad: America's Third Rail," an "unofficial" panel at today's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) wanted their standing-room only audience to know that there's more to fear than jihad -- it's Islam itself that is the threat.

Sentiments like that are what has made this panel -- which just ended here at the Marriott Wardman Hotel in D.C -- one of the more controversial at the three-day conservative confab.

"Everyone knows Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority," said Robert Spencer, sarcastically and to a great amount of applause and guffaws. Spencer, executive director of Jihad Watch and associate director of the Freedom Defense Initiative, which he recently founded with Atlas Shrugged blogger Pamela Geller, told his audience everyone believes that "like they believe in Santa Claus though no one has ever seen it."

He declared that "conservative media leaders even parrot this line" that Islam is a peaceful religion at its core.

But it was the female participants who stole the show. Continuing:

the group's message, that political correctness was preventing the American people -- elected officials and the government included -- from acknowledging -- in Geller's words -- that Islamists "have infiltrated at every level of society and all levels of government."

Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates, argued that Islam is a tryannical religion and was roundly applauded when she was introduced as a "former Muslim."

Islam is "the very same teaching that drove 19 terrorists to fly planes into the World Trade Center," she said.

Even Politico reports:

An event devoted to opposing Islam drew an overflow crowd.

And over at The Other McCain, Smitty reports that Geller and Spencer launched their Freedom Defense Initiative to the crowd:

In the Rock Star Blogger pantheon, few exceed Pamela and Robert for lasting impact.