You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.