• O chauvinismo islâmico e os cartoons de Maomé

These Muslims think of themselves as dutifully promulgating and defending their faith. What has been the West?s defense of its own sacred principles? Many editors and politicians, like Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have rightly been defiant. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, on the other hand, chose to reprove the European media: "There is freedom of speech, we all respect that, but there is not any obligation to insult or to be gratuitously inflammatory." "Free Speech Go To Hell," said a London placard carried by a covered protester, suggesting Mr. Straw has some thinking to do. And it was precisely to call attention to this dangerous state of affairs that the cartoons were printed and reprinted in Europe?and now in America.

• A armadilha do multiculturalismo

The multiculturalists of the West have encouraged radical Muslims to preserve their culture in Western nations. Now we are re-learning that tremulous appeasement cannot purchase the goodwill of those intent on crushing "infidels" ? as evidenced by the deadly arsons and riots that erupted all over France last November, when angry Muslims turned their wrath on the land that had made multiculturalism its highest ideal. We are not engaged in a cultural dialogue in which we may seek to try to "understand" our would-be murderers; we are engaged in a protracted struggle for the survival of our way of life. The Islamists and the appeasenik leftists are on the wrong side.