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On Inauguration Day, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, in a New York Times ad ("An Invitation to a New Partnership"), told "Dear President OBAMA" that Muslims "have compelling strategic and moral reasons to cooperate and peacefully co-exist with the United States in particular, and with the West in general." Many Muslims here and elsewhere want that partnership; but some, jihadists in the name of Islam, disagree violently. In its address to our new president, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (which has permanent status at the United Nations) made no mention of its own strategic skills that resulted, on...

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun. As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own. But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune. Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished...

On July 4, Sunni Muslim terrorists attacked Shiites performing prayers in a Quetta, Pakistan mosque. About 60 people were killed -- roughly triple the number of civilians who died in last year's Jenin "massacre." The next day, two female suicide bombers dispatched by Chechen Islamists activated their "Martyr's belts" at the gates to a Moscow rock concert, killing 14. Two days after that, a terrorist apparently connected to Palestinian Islamic Jihad blew himself up in an Israeli home, murdering a 65-year-old woman. Four days; three countries; three attacks in the name of Allah; more than 70 dead. The attack in...