"The Disbeliever"

Salon.com has this profile of the currently-very-hot author Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith:  Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason" (link), and of the forthcoming "Letter to a Christian Nation" (link).  It's well worth a read.  Among other things, Harris makes clear his view that "religous moderates" are as much -- if not more -- the problem as "fundamentalists":

Well, I think religious moderation is a politically correct discourse about all religions truly being benign in their essence and just being hijacked by people who are psychologically unstable or political megalomaniacs. This is a false view. And it's giving cover to religious extremists. This respect for faith, this taboo against criticizing faith, prevents us from saying the necessary things that we must say against religious fundamentalism.