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Christopher Hitchens: At the same time, he was attracted to the foreign policy ideas of some on the Republicanright that promoted pro-liberalism intervention, especially the neoconservative group that included Paul Wolfowitz.[ That Bleeding Heart Wolfowitz", Slate, 22 March 2005] In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neoconservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues.[ Johann Hari, "In Enemy Territory: An Interview with Christopher Hitchens", The Independent, 23 September 2004.] Hitchens had also been known to refer to his association with "temporary neocon allies".[Christopher Hitchens, "The End of Fukuyama", Slate, 1 March 2006] Christopher Hitchens argued the case for the Iraq War in a 2003 collection of essays entitled A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, and he held numerous public debates on the topic with George Galloway["George Galloway vs Christopher Hitchens (1 of 12)". YouTube 26 April 2011.] and Scott Ritter. [ "Christopher Hitchens versus RitterIraq War debate part 1". YouTube. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2011.] Sam Harris: While Harris is "extremely critical of all religious faiths", he asserts that the doctrines of Islam are uniquely dangerous to civilization,[ ^ a b c "Sam Harris: Bombing Our Illusions". Huffington Post. 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2010.] stating that unlike Jainism, Islam "is not even remotely a religion of peace".[ Don, Katherine (2010). "'The Moral Landscape': Why science should shape morality."Salon (Oct. 17). Retrieved on 2011-12-01] Harris denounced New York mayor Bloomberg's and President Obama's support of allowing the Park51 Islamic center to be built. In an opinion piece to The Washington Post, Harris claims that allowing the Islamic center to be built would be seen as liberal "cowardice", arguing that "Islam simply is different from other faiths" and should be changed "for the better". In the same piece, Harris states that there is no legal basis for stopping the community center from being built, nor should there be one.[ Harris, Sam (August 13, 2010). "What Obama Got Wrong About the Mosque". The Daily Beast. The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC.] Harris said in 2004: "It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam."[ ^ "Major survey challenges Western perceptions of Islam". Agence France-Presse. 2008-02-27.] Suggesting that the Qur'an and the hadith incite Muslims to kill or subjugate infidels, and reward such actions with paradise (including 72 virgins), Harris believes Islam is a religion of violence and political subjugation. He asserts that the liberal argument of stating that the phenomenon of religious extremism is a consequence of fundamentalism in and of itself is false, and that many other religions such as Jainism have not experienced the same trends Islam and Christianity have. Harris considers martyrdom as taking the "sting out of death" and a source of peril. He rejects arguments that suggest such behavior is a result of extremist Muslims, not mainstream ones. He argues that the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons not because the cartoons were derogatory but because "most Muslims believe that it is a sacrilege to depict Muhammad at all".[35] Harris maintains that the West is at war with "precisely the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran, and further elaborated in the literature of the hadith".[ Harris, Sam (2004). The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. W.W. Norton & Company.]pp. 109110. He demands that Muslims "must tolerate, advocate, and even practice ethnic profiling" in the fight against terrorism.[ "Sam Harris: Bombing Our Illusions". Huffington Post. 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2010] Harris has stated that Israel holds the "moral high ground" compared to Muslims and Islamist groups in the PalestinianIsraeli conflict: For instance, [liberals] ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we and the Israelis (as a rule) seek to avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, and this accounts for much of the collateral damage we and the Israelis cause; the political discourse throughout much of the Muslim world, especially with respect to Jews, is explicitly and unabashedly genocidal. ... Given these distinctions, there is no question that the Israelis now hold the moral high ground in their conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah.[The Rational Response Squad. "Head-in-the-Sand Liberals by Sam Harris | The Rational Response Squad". Rationalresponders.com. Retrieved 2012-09-09.]

Ibn Warraq: Anders Behring Breivik is by all accounts an intelligent individual, wealthy and from a privileged background. He believes Europe is under assault, that it is being colonized by the hordes of the evil green menace known as Islam and that Europes leaders are responsible for the onslaught. He believes this despite the fact that there are no Muslim Armies occupying ANY European nation, there are no Muslim Armies that have set up bases in ANY European nation. How did he come to the irrational conclusion that his very way of life was under imminent threat? His inspiration can be gleaned from the words of his manifesto, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. In his own words he was inspired by Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer, Bat Yeor, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, Ibn Warraq, Serge Trifkovic, the so-called Vienna School and a plethora of other Islamophobes and anti-Muslims. 111Many initial news stories hypothesized the attack had been undertaken by Islamic terrorists, such as those who had masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[ Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck. American Terrorist, Harper: New York, 2001 p. 249.] Some responded to these reports by attacking Muslims and people of Arab descent.[ Edward Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 p. 140. ]