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In an fascinating exercise in selective data use, the Huffington Post has published a remarkable essay suggesting that the vast majority of terrorists have nothing to do with Islam and that Islam itself has nothing to do with encouraging violence. In his article Monday, "Is Islam Really the Religion of Violence? Here Are the Facts," Saudi-born writer Hanzala Bin Aman tiptoes through an FBI study on terrorism to cull the statistics that seem to justify his thesis that Islamic terrorism only makes up a tiny percentage of all terrorist acts, and therefore shouldn't be singled out as a source of...

Last month we discussed the convention that was to be held in Chicago planned by the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HIHZ'-buht-ah-tuh-REER'). It was to be their second Chicago convention, the first held in 2009. The event was supposed to be held on July 11 at the Marriott hotel in Oak Brook but the hotel chain canceled their reservation at the end of June offering no explanation to the Muslim group. It is possible that the hotel got complaints about the upcoming Islamist gathering. Last year's Islamist event in Chicago pulled counter protests and news coverage. Perhaps the hotel did not...

Up to a point, we may be forgiven if we do not grasp the evil around us. Winston Churchill couldn't either. First presented with the utter malice in his own era, he did not believe. He was presented (for example) with the instance of a Nazi who took one women's three children. Utterly distraught, she pleaded for their lives. The Nazi's response: "You may take back one. Choose." Frozen in agony, she did not choose. The three children were slaughtered. She went insane. Churchill's response: "We are in the presence of a crime without a name." Churchill had an advantage...

When Pope Benedict XVI was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger he told Europe to recover its Christian roots “if it truly wants to survive.” Amen from an arch-Protestant whose ancestors included refugees who fled Catholic persecution for freedom in Virginia. The new Pope is a scholar who sees history unfolding into the future. We agree. Europe will be Islamic and subject to Islamist Totalitarianism by 2100, unless Europeans turn to faith and family. If Europe fails to live for faith and family, succumbing further to Socialist Human Secular Totalitarianism, then European culture deserves to die under Islamic culture. Many Europeans hope that...