Some candidates appear not to realize that the American Muslim community has a significant number of political conservatives sympathetic to many Republican Party platform issues.
The fact that Gingrich can proudly advertise his conversion to Catholicism as a personal and presidential asset is a sign of how much progress we've made. But it is profoundly un-American to replace one bias with another.
There is a problem underlying Newt Gingrich's warnings about the dangers of sharia: the assumption that, as a religious law grounded in an unchanging divine revelation, the law itself must be fixed and unchanging.
UPDATED Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich last week criticized the United States for not engaging more forcefully with other countries besides...