“Hamza Walker Lindh has come to embody the challenge of Islam to America, and the challenge is simply this: In response to what America has done to him, Hamza has become more Islamic—-more himself, and a better Muslim. And in response to what Hamza has done to it, America has become less properly Christian, and ever less democratic, and ever so much less than itself.” Tom Junod explores the relationship between America and Islam in his excellent profile of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh in this month’s Esquire. A necessary and long overdue piece.