ISLAM: When we consider the fact that approximately two-thirds of the world's Muslim population is illiterate, this means the majority of Muslims cannot read their religion's most important book. Further, it means that Islam can be interpreted and taught any way its leaders desire. -- Herman Cain, "Know Your Enemy," townhall.com, 6/14/06

EUROPE: Europe is committing demographic suicide, and has been doing so for some time.... Demography is destiny, and Europe's demographics of decline -- which are unparalleled in human history absent wars, plagues, and natural catastrophes -- are creating enormous and unavoidable problems. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

EUROPE: Out-of-control political correctness in Europe is rooted in a deeper malady: a rejection of the belief that human beings, however inadequately or incompletely, can grasp the truth of things -- a belief that has, for almost two millennia, underwritten the European civilization that grew out of the interaction of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

RELATIVISM: In the relativist mindset, it ... turns out, not all religious and moral conviction is bigotry that must be suppressed; only the Judeo-Christian variety is. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

EUROPE: Nihilism rooted in skepticism, issuing in the bad faith of moral relativism andWestern self-loathing, comforting itself with a vacuous humanitarianism ... has contributed to killing Europe demographically, and to paralyzing Europe in the face of an aggressive ideology [i.e. Islam] aimed at the eradication of Western humanism in the name of a lethally distorted understanding of God's will. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006