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"I don't know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?" These were the words of a young Circuit City store clerk after seeing a video, made by the Fort Dix Six terrorists, of their firearms training.They are indicative of how indoctrinated Americans have become in the thoughts, attitudes, philosophy, and beliefs of politically correct liberalism. That this young man should even have to think twice about reporting possible terrorist activity is astounding – and dangerous. Yet, it is an all too sad fact of American life. Liberals, aided by their political representatives, the leftwing of...

New York Times reporter Alan Feuer, seen last May giving respectable coverage to a convention of "Bush-caused-9-11" conspiracy nuts, went to enormous (and erroneous) pains Monday to soft-pedal the Muslim beliefs of the Fort Dix terrorist plotters in "Two Mosques Are Shaken by Ties to a Terror Plot." "It is unclear what role, if any, religion played in the attack Mr. Shnewer and the five other men are charged with planning. (The sixth suspect, Agron Abdullahu, had no apparent connection with Al-Aqsa or the South Jersey Islamic Center.) The authorities have described the suspects as Islamic extremists, but the lengthy...

Let's see if we have this straight. 1 — Six terrorists right here on U.S. soil plot to kill American soldiers. Those are the charges. 2 — Thankfully, they were nabbed by the FBI in a sting operation. 3 — Three of the alleged terrorists are illegal aliens. Nonetheless, we cannot treat any of the six as enemy combatants. We must go through the criminal justice system, the same system that is available to a masked bandit who knocks off a 7-Eleven.  By any standard, that is nothing short of outrageous. Late Wednesday, this column pointed out that no one...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When hundreds of Muslims gather at the Albanian Islamic Center in Tompkinsville for the Jumu'ah -- the midday service on the holiest of Muslim days -- they expect the imam to teach them history or lessons from the Quran. But Imam Zurkani Vardari interrupted yesterday's afternoon sermon to address what has no doubt weighed heavily on many of their minds. "We are shocked and appalled to receive the news of the possible terror attack on Fort Dix military base in New Jersey," Vardari said during an emotional reading of a statement condemning the alleged plot. That...

'Fort Dix Six' Father: My Pizzeria Is Ruined Since Son's Arrest POSTED: 12:24 pm EDT May 12, 2007 UPDATED: 12:30 pm EDT May 12, 2007 COOKSTOWN, N.J. -- The father of one of the six men described as radical Islamists and charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business he's nurtured for years is all but ruined since his son's arrest. Muslim Tatar, who has owned Super Mario's Pizza for five years, says that his lunchtime crowd from nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix has largely disappeared, replaced by empty tables and nasty words...