We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.

The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.