1. "Some Muslims may preach nonviolence. But politicians and diplomats must account for the stubborn fact that Muslim radicals have attacked Americans in such diverse locales as Lebanon, Yemen, Kenya, the Philippines, New York City, and Washington, D.C." (p. 95)

2. The question is not whether the percentage of American Muslim leaders who are anti-American is small, but whether it is merely large, or overwhelming:
   Siraj Wahhaj, the Moslem cleric who in 1991 was the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer for the U.S. House, openly calls for a caliphate to replace the U.S. Constitution, served as a character witness for Sheikh Omar in his New York bombing .conspiracy trial, and was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case (p. 112).
   • Zaid Shakir, the Muslim chaplain at Yale, said that Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the secular political system of the United States because it is against the commands of Allah. (p. 113).
   • Mohammed Kabbani of the Islamic Supreme Council of America estimates that "extremists" with the Islamist outlook have "taken over 80 percent of the mosques" in the United States (p. 123).

3. For strong evidence of the leftwing and Islamist bias of Islamic Studies scholars, see the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Pipes says, "The entry on health care, for example, rails against `Eurocentric scholarship' and interprets the advent of European medicine as a `mechanism of social control in colonized Islamic societies.'" (p. 105).

4. Free speech in Western countries is being drastically limited by Islamism. In France, Archbishop Lefebvre was fined about $1,000 for anti-Muslim remarks, and in Canada a Christian activist was sentenced to 340 hours of community service and 6 months of probation for breaking the hate speech laws by passing out leaflets condemning Islamic persecution of Christians (p. 175). (This month 2 men in a Vietnamese youth gang who beat a lone Korean-Canadian teenager to death in British Columbia were sentenced 1 and 2 1/2 years in youth custody, and 4 others got 2 years house arrest (with an exception for going to work) and 240 hours of community service. See the Vancouver Sun.)

   Free speech is also suppressed by government failure to stop private suppression. Steven Emerson has had to go underground after producing an anti-Moslem TV documentary (p. 175). Three translators of Rushdie's book were stabbed, one to death (p. 174). Etcetera.

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