Here is an article by Hirsi Ali about the conflict between Islam and the West. Having been born a Muslim, she has a better perspective than most of us in the west.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Ali-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

This article made me think about the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans. Republican's values of reason are from the age of Enlightenment while Democrat's are from Romanticism. Moral and cultural relativism are the basis for Romanticism. Considering this it is easy to see why most of Hollywood are Democrats. This is the reason that Democrats are ill-suited for the existential conflict we are in now with Islam.