January 21, 2008
Source: International Herald Tribune
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/opinion/21iht-edcarroll.1.9374931.html?searchResultPosition=1
The unfolding U.S. presidential elections are laying bare what the real dangers are in the new American condition. They come not from our political divisiveness, economic uncertainty or military insecurity - but from our religious character as a people, which, in this case, is not positive. Religious intolerance marks one candidate debate after another - a sweeping denigration of Islam. And it is going to backfire.