Green should not have dropped out. His doing so only validates the Left’s claim that his statements are beyond the pale. But are they really?

“Also in September, he said a stand needed to be taken against ‘the indoctrination of Islam’ in public schools.”

Hysterical, paranoid Islamophobia, right? Wrong. Some headlines from the last few years:

Sharia law promoted in Indiana public schools

Texas high school opens Muslim prayer room and follow-up: Texas public high school defends its Islamic prayer room after warning from state deputy attorney general

Tennessee: Christian mom wants history textbook removed from schools for promoting Islamic propaganda

Tennessee openly promotes Islam: 7th graders made to recite Islamic statement of faith

Tennessee elementary school bans pork to avoid offending Muslims

North Carolina public high school proselytizing for Islam in vocabulary lessons

Today is Hijab Day at NP3 High School, a public charter school in Sacramento, California

California school district bans drawing Muhammad

Wisconsin: Public school students must “pretend you’re a Muslim”

Virginia School District closes, blaming ‘tone and content’ of parents’ protest over Islamic indoctrination assignment

Maryland: Marine dad banned from school after complaining about Islam assignment

Minnesota: Parents question public high school’s choice to sing “Allahu akbar” at holiday concert

Green compounded his “Islamophobia”: “he also referred to the ‘Muslim horde’ that invaded Constantinople centuries ago.”

Why, how racist and bigoted! The conquerors of Constantinople were tolerant, pluralistic multiculturalists with big hearts full of love! Historian Steven Runciman notes that the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. But soon the lust for slaughter was assuaged. The soldiers realized that captives and precious objects would bring them greater profit.” (The Fall of Constantinople 1453, Cambridge University Press, 1965, p. 145.)

Some jihadists “made for the small but splendid churches by the walls, Saint George by the Charisian Gate, Saint John in Petra, and the lovely church of the monastery of the Holy Saviour in Chora, to strip them of their stores of plate and their vestments and everything else that could be torn from them. In the Chora they left the mosaics and frescoes, but they destroyed the icon of the Mother of God, the Hodigitria, the holiest picture in all Byzantium, painted, so men said, by Saint Luke himself. It had been taken there from its own church beside the Palace at the beginning of the siege, that its beneficient presence might be at hand to inspire the defenders on the walls. It was taken from its setting and hacked into four pieces.” (P. 146.)

But don’t call them a “horde”!

“Trump’s pick for Army secretary drops out amid criticism of LGBT, Islam remarks,” Fox News, May 5, 2017: