In most sci fi movies involving alien invasion, the visitors fall into two groups: ruthless creatures bent on our destruction, or highly evolved sentient beings here to save us from our own ruin.

Fareed Zakaria is both. In the most recent Newsweek, the CNN talking head/madcap theorist has come down from planet Patchouli to inform humanity that radical Islam is here to stay. More important – E.T. Fareed claims that we need to divorce extremist religion nutbags from the violence we see them cause.

Okay Fareed: so instead of radical Islam divorcing itself from its own extreme acts of violence, we have to divorce the link in our minds – a psychological exercise that asks us to forget about 9/11 and the idea that the Taliban had any role in it – an exercise, mind you that defies logic while offering no help to the world whatsoever.

But it is an interesting strategy that Zakara is pushing: it`s called "Screw you." And it`s directed at those who have to live with these fundamentalist bastards - something Fareed can suggest because the odd of his own kids getting acid thrown in their faces by the Taliban is nil –he lives here, after all. But the poor unfortunate girls who want an education in Afghanistan don`t have that luxury.

But at least Fareed is being honest. Basically, he`s saying you can continue killing innocent Christians in Somalia, mutilate the faces of your girls in Afghanistan, hang homosexuals in Iran – just don`t bother me while I`m texting on 6th avenue. Now that`s a compassionate liberal at his best.