The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle I believe the biggest threat to western democracies today comes not only from Islams traditions of intolerance and political violence and anti-Western sentiment, but also from those apologists and pluralists, both religious and political, who are making every effort to convince us that this threatthese egregious customswere never foreign to our North American traditions of tolerance and rule of law; as though Islam, with its ever-present political and religious maelstroms, is applicable to our democratic way of life.