Occupation: Historian Birth: September 9, 1949
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on..
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not..
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict..
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passi….
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to m….
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomize….
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than….
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evo….
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most..
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill..
Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians..
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completel….
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that ….
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all t….
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up..
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot….
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims ….
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standa….
The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be..
There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam..
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the M….