"Only when the 'war on terrorism' becomes 'war on militant Islam' can the war actually be won."

—Daniel Pipes

“Islam—as a religion, culture, and society—most emphatically is not an enemy of the West.”

—Antony T. Sullivan

Karen Armstrong, author of several books on religion, tells the story of trying in the early 1990s to find a publisher for her book A History of God, a study of the theological thought of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. She writes that one American publisher was interested in the book but asked her to shorten or remove all the chapters dealing with Islam because American readers were not interested in “all this Muslim theology.” Americans, Armstrong recounted, “tended to regard the Muslim world as irredeemably religious and therefore barbarous and dangerous, or to dismiss Islam as an archaic irrelevance”—this...