So the chief of MI6 says that Russia is a threat to the west.

[Sir C]

Recently I kept hearing how Mike Flynn, Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, was a rabid Islamophobe and had said some truly despicable things about Muslims and Islam. So I looked into what he'd said, and every single word of it was undeniably true.

This confused me.

I don't know why this confused you, to be honest. We live in an age when the Left defines what 'truth' is, and a chap daring to refuse to cosy up to Islam is, in the New Truth, a fascist.