MARTIN PERETZ: “Kerry asserted that ‘the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics.’ My God, what bullshit politicians feel obliged to utter! Or maybe the bullshit is already second nature, or even first. But since Kerry raised it, let me ask: What hadith of the Prophet influenced him the most, and why?”