[liberallarry]

I think she underestimates Muslims fear and envy of the West as motivation for their hatred. I also thinks she overestimates the decline of the West. Remember that America was held in contempt by the tyrants of the '30s for exactly the same reasons Ms. Phillips enumerates. Remember that our society united and acted in a way others have found to be surprisingly forceful as a result of 9-11. It is our strength that we are so contentious, that our babble of political, religious, and moral dispute is so loud. Not our weakness. The Muslims fear it because their culture cannot survive it.

[Blake#1]

I hope you are correct. However, Islam is not going away. It is growing in population faster than the population growth in the West. The future is a greater Islam and a less influential Christian world with a much smaller population than it has today.