"When George Washington wrote to the Newport Synagogue. . .he told those Jews that they enjoyed the free exercise of religion in America, not on the basis of mere toleration, but on the basis of natural right--the right to life in the fullest sense. In contrast. . .the Islamic law. . .offers Jews and Christians toleration, not on the basis of the natural right to life, but on the basis of the right to kill. That is, in the status of dhimmitude, non-Muslims may live only on condition of strict subordination, enforceable by death. Exclusion from citizenship is the price of survival. A full life may only be lived if you believe rightly, and not because, as a human being, you are entitled to such a life, regardless of your religious beliefs." 

-Will Morrisey, 
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College
Imprimis, October 2002