Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

" Pipes has since admitted in response to the latter statement that "Mubarak got this one right and I got it wrong. " Pipes has proposed a Three state solution to the conflict in which Gaza would be given to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan.

He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and its Campus Watch project and editor of its Middle East Quarterly journal. S. Pipes enjoys a heroic status; among his detractors he is reviled.