This is really silly. A crime is rare, so it shouldn't be punished. Cannabilism is too, so why were we so harsh on Jeffrey Dahmer?
Crimes are punished because they are crimes, not to "make an example."
Maybe he felt closer to God in Islam than in liberal Catholicism. And maybe he was right. The Taliban is pretty far from God, but perhaps not as far as lukewarm Christianity.
Baloney. "Lukewarm Christians" don't crash hijacked aircraft into office buildings.
Is secularism rampant because people were pulled away by our unprecedented material prosperity (as Mr. Sobran, and many of his admirers on FR, seem to think), or pushed away by churches more concerned with their own earthly sovereignty than with the doing of the Lord's will? I don't know, but the instinct among people like Mr. Sobran to refuse to look inward is all too common these days, and all too unfortunate.
Physician, heal thyself.
"Liberal Catholicism" to Joe Sobran is anything that has manifested itself since 1962.
In Joe's mind, vernacular Masses, married deacons, women reading scripture at Mass, and priests in shirt sleeves are worse than an ideology which leads to flying planes into buildings full of innocent people.
Sobran, like Charley Reese, has completely lost any relevance since 9/11.