Who is Being Civil?

In the Wall Street Journal, Bill McGurn has a great piece on the way that liberals seem to get away with describing conservatives using language that should be reserved to describing radical Islamic extremists.  Bill really hits the nail on the head here:

What's interesting about all these usages is that they come without nuance. The liberals who deploy them mean them in their full pejorative sense: with "jihad" shorthand for a brutal war of fanaticism, "mullah" implying a religious fanatic, "Shariah" a synonym for an inhumane system of law, and so on. What's also interesting is that none of these words was invoked to describe an actual mullah, an actual fatwa, or an actual suicide bomber.

Though I think Bill misses something when he says that liberals will continue to do this type of thing because "they know the civility police will never be coming for them."  Well that's because they are the civility police.