The Truthiness of Harry Potter
"In addition to the entertainment value, part of the enormous popularity of fantasy literature such as the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Narnia books of C. S. Lewis is because they provide us with a refuge from the suffocating anti-Western self-loathing of our age. In real life, we are taught that there is no such thing as evil, just different perspectives, which are equally valid as our own. Defending your country against invasion is racism and xenophobia. Terrorists murder people because they have suffered injustice in the past or Islamophobia in the present . . .
J.K. Rowling's enormously successful books about teenage wizard Harry Potter have been belittled as merely silly books for children. But . . . some of the later books, such as Order of the Phoenix, are much darker than its predecessors. It centers on Harry's desperate efforts to convince the Powers That Be that evil once again walks among them. Only with tremendous effort is he able to rally some believers to his side and prepare them for war. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Note to Mr. Blair: There is more wisdom in the tales of Harry Potter than there ever will be in the Koran."
From Superman, Harry Potter and the War Against Jihad at Brussels Journal. Go read the whole thing.