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

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis

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…

- Bernard Lewis