Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is homogenous at all. But they do have things in common.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.