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What Will It Mean for the West if Radical Islam Triumphs? Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq may not worry the average American or European, but could defeat there also mean defeat at home? Could the seemingly inexorable advance of radical Islam in the Middle East be replicated in the West? by Melvin Rhodes The West defeated fascists and communists in World War II and the Cold War. It now faces a foe equally determined, if not more so. Can it defeat radical Islam? Daniel Pipes, author of 11 books on Middle Eastern topics and director of the Philadelphia think tank...

Dr. James Dobson, a well-known and respected national Christian leader in speaking at a rally in front of the Alabama Courthouse containing the disputed monument of the Ten Commandments compared the ongoing struggle with that of the Black equal rights movement of the 1950's. Dr. Dobson described the irony of how in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to "Go to the back of the bus." by racially-driven bigots sparked a national equal rights movment and said that another national "movement" was now underway to protect the rights of Christians. Dr. Dobson declared, "We are not going to the back of...