The first step towards winning the clash of civilizations is to understand how the other side is waging it, and to rid ourselves of the One World illusion.

Muslims are using Europe's liberal democratic apparatus to roll back our hard-fought freedoms.

The London bombings and the anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, the Bosnian town where nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered, were two seemingly unrelated stories that occurred within five days of each other this month. Though separated by 10 years and 1,000 miles, the two are actually rather closely linked.

The conditional offer to negotiate with a large Muslim nation on E.U. membership is already stirring political debate in Europe. It is a debate that can be extraordinarily dangerous or extraordinarily useful -- for Europeans and Americans alike -- depending on how it is managed and whether it is integrated into a more productive transatlantic approach to the global campaign against Islamic terrorist networks.

For those who haven't encountered her name yet, suffice it to say that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a European of African descent with an almost American rags-to-riches life story.

The 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has received only muted celebrations in the English-speaking world.

Scratch European anxiety about the coming invasion of Iraq and you usually discover a foreboding about repercussions among Europe's large and expanding Muslim population.

What has it come towhen an activist for women's rights in America needs bodyguards?