It Is Important To Realize

Imagine A World In Which Generations Of Human Beings Come To Believe That Certain Films Were Made By God Or That Specific Software Was Coded By Him. Imagine A Future In Which Millions Of Our Descendants Murder Each Other Over Rival Interpretations Of Star Wars Or Windows 98. Could Anything -- Anything -- Be More Ridiculous? And Yet, This Would Be No More Ridiculous Than The World We Are Living In.

We Will See That The Greatest Problem Confronting Civilization Is Not Merely Religious Extremism: Rather, It Is The Larger Set Of Cultural And Intellectual Accommodations We Have Made To Faith Itself.

The Truth That We Must Finally Confront Is That Islam Contains Specific Notions Of Martyrdom And Jihad That Fully Explain The Character Of Muslim Violence.

Our Wills Are Simply Not Of Our Own Making. Thoughts And Intentions Emerge From Background Causes Of Which We Are Unaware And Over Which We Exert No Conscious Control. We Do Not Have The Freedom We Think We Have.

It Is Time We Admitted That We Are Not At War With “terrorism.” We Are At War With Islam.