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The real question is, “How do we live with our deepest differences” when those differences are stronger and deeper than ever before? The answer, I believe, is to recover a principled vision of religious freedom for all and forge a civil public square in which it can flourish.

One of the greatest questions of the 21st century is: “Will Islam modernize peacefully?” That prospect is not inconceivable, but at the moment there are few indications to encourage such a positive outcome. As countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan show, Islam is in the throes of titanic convulsions that we must pay careful attention to as they work their way out. Unquestionably, Islamism at the moment has joined aggressive secularism to represent the two greatest threats to religious freedom around the world. But our own greatest danger does not come from the outside. It comes from within, from the fact that we in the West have forgotten who we are, and are unsure how we conduct our public lives when Muslims and other immigrants come into “our tent.”