Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their nationalism. In the 20th century, ideology came to the fore, largely, but not exclusively, as a result of the Russian Revolution and we have fascism, communism and liberal democracy competing with each other. Well that's pretty much over.