As with the blond Scandinavian bodyguards who attended the Byzantine emperors, their uprightness was all the more starkly evidenced by the shiftiness of the guy they were protecting.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.

ECONOMIST: Islam and the West