Drinking Wine And Wearing Trousers Were Nothing

By Declaring Our Prophet Infallible And Not Permitting Ourselves To Question Him, We Muslims Had Set Up A Static Tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad Attempted To Legislate Every Aspect Of Life. By Adhering To His Rules Of What Is Permitted And What Is Forbidden, We Muslims Supressed The Freedom To Think For Ourselves And To Act As We Chose. We Froze The Moral Outlook Of Billions Of People Into The Mindset Of The Arab Desert In The Seventh Century. We Were Not Just Servants Of Allah, We Were Slaves.

You'll Be Pleased To Hear, Christopher, That I Am No Longer A Muslim Liberal But An Atheist [....] I Find That It Obviates The Necessity For Any Cognitive Dissonance.

The Mistake That The Bush Administration Should Admit To Is Not So Much That They Made The Wrong Choices. They Made The Right Analysis; They Made The Right Choices. But What They Did Wrong Was The Execution Of Those Choices. That Was Wrong.

Liberal Capitalism Is Not Perfect, But Compared To The Other 'isms,' It's Far Superior.

In Holland I Have Seen Well-meaning, Principled People Blinded By Multiculturalism, Overwhelmed By The Imperative To Be Sensitive And Respectful Of Immigrant Culture, While Ignoring Criminal Abuse Of Women And Girls.