The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mist….

One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a ….

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one does….

I see encouraging signs of democracy developing in other places in the Middle East. In Tunisia, in Iraq, and now in Egypt. Tunisia is the one Muslim ….

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support..

They call themselves Sephardic Jews, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that some come from the Muslim world and some come fr….

In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say that Islam is backwar….

I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and….

In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need….

In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the realit….

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has neve….

Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to aut….

In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same thing. But what we do m….

What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over every….

If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about th….

In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is….

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear wea….

You see Christians and Muslims have one thing in common which they do not share with their other religions as far as I know. They claim to be the for….

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give t….

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents….

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press,….