There's a lot of hate and bigotry and "evil" in this world. It's all over the place, coming at us from all directions.
The least we can do is acknowledge facts without spinning away from them and attacking the messenger, in a transparent effort to change the subject.
Doing that pretty much makes it look like we're forgiving and enabling that particular evil.
Here's the guy who coined the term "Regressive Left" - a devout Muslim liberal Brit who is risking his life fighting for an Islamic Reformation, expressing his frustrations over this terribly counterproductive behavior.