There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel financial institutions that reinforce the idea that they are unique, not subject to the laws and norms to which the rest of us are subject-a privileged class. At the same time, sharia finance initiatives are giving Islamic interests increased control over Western economic life.

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone.

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.