"Our decent desire to be polite, combined with our indecent concessions to fear, make reform of Islam less likely"

"I have known Maajid Nawaz since he came out of prison in Egypt a decade ago and we’ve both travelled a long way since, sometimes together, sometimes on opposite sides."

The Ground Zero mosque debate shows America, like Britain, pursuing the chimera of attempting to reform Islam

Islam isn't Islamism — but Muslims are too quick to defend extremists