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 Something very important is happening in Denmark -- a showdown over freedom, tolerance, and their wolfish menaces in religious clothing. So, please, turn off "American Idol," put down the Game Boy for a moment, and pay attention. This does affect you.Last October, a Danish newspaper called the Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. The illustrations included various depictions of the prophet Muhammad, some innocuous (Muhammad walking in a pasture) and a few with provocative references to radical Islamic terrorism. One showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban; another had Muhammad wielding a sword in front of...

On the eve of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, Muslim terrorists belonging to Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiah conducted suicide bombings on the island of Bali. Then, on the first day of Ramadan, a Sunni Muslim suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi town of Hilla... "Some call this Islamic radicalism; others, militant jihadism; still others Islamo-fascism," ... what many of us Muslims know by our experience and the history of our faith tradition -- that is, how greatly Muslims themselves have been terrorized through centuries by the same people who are now waging their indiscriminate war...

The borders remain unguarded. Federal spending is going through the roof. And Harriet Miers in the president's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. But I do have some good news for you – and it's not that I saved a ton of money on my car insurance. The good news is that President Bush has finally figured out who the enemy is in our so-called "war on terrorism." In a speech last week to the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, he explicitly identified the ideology of "evil Islamic radicalism," "militant jihadism" and "Islamo-fascism" as the driving force of radical...