"[T]he threat to the West is vastly more than bin Laden and Al Qaeda (although that would be bad enough.) The greater danger is the ferment in Islam that is generating radical ideas in an unknown, but growing percentage of grass-roots Muslims around the world—very much including in Europe and, to a currently lesser extent, in the United States. A nation cannot design (and maintain public support for) a rational response to the danger if the nature and extent of the danger is not identified, widely reported and comprehended. What are we dealing with? A few maladjusted 'youth'? Or a larger and growing number of perfectly well-adjusted men and women—who just happen to be adjusted to a different set of cultural, religious (or distorted religious) and political values. And does it matter that those values are inimical to western concepts of tolerance, democracy, equality and religious freedom?... Denying the existence of evil (or refusing to be judgmental about it) has never proved a reliable method for defeating it. Hell is presumably filled with souls who didn't understand that point." —Tony Blankley
