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

Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.

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

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

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.