Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.