Quality Punditry

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Recently Daniel Pipes offered two important pieces on Muslim Europe and Europe's Threat to the West:

Whence comes the main danger to homeland security in North America and Western Europe?

With the exception of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, notes Al-Qaeda authority Rohan Gunaratna, all major terrorist attacks of the past decade in the West have been carried out by immigrants. A closer look finds that these were not just any immigrants but invariably from a specific background: Of the 212 suspected and convicted terrorist perpetrators during 1993-2003, 86% were Muslim immigrants and the remainder mainly converts to Islam.

And Charles Colson opines on A Sacred Duty: Why Christians Must Vote

This fall Americans will go to the polls and elect a president--one who will influence the direction in which the country's moral compass will point. But according to a recent report, only a third of evangelical Christians--those who ought to be most concerned with moral values--will actually vote.

These are shocking figures. Of all people, we ought to vote, not just as a right, but as a spiritual duty. All it takes is to lose your right to vote, as I did once, to know how precious that is.

If 4 million Evangelicals sit out the upcoming election, as they are estimated to have done in 2000, we can say hello to President Kerry and an administration with the sensiblities of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi.

Feel the fear . . . and take action.