Radical

Another September 11 looms in a few more weeks. We Americans may have grown weary of war against our Islamic radical jihadist enemies. They will never grow weary of war against us as Sunday, July 11's massacre in Kampala, Uganda shows once again Our Islamic radical jihadist enemies and their forefathers have been fighting since 622 of the Common Era to conquer the world for Islam. Only as complete and devastating a defeat as our recent forefathers inflicted on Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during the Second World War will compel our Islamic radical jihadist enemies to cease their aggression against us. The Islamic Republic of Iran is still our most dangerous enemy.

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century By Kevin Phillips A former Republican strategist looks broadly and historically at the political world the conservative coalition has constructed over the last several decades, identifying three trends. One is the role of oil in defining American foreign and domestic policy. The second is the intrusion of radical Christianity into politics and government. The third is the levels of debt that both the government and the American people have been accumulating.

WILL THEY or won't they? Will delegates to that tribute to excessive verbiage - the United Nations-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, which opened in Durban, South Africa, on Friday - take up the gauntlet thrown down by the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights? There was talk early on about delegates at this conference adopting language that would equate Zionism with racism. That's been toned down after the United States objected.

Nikki Giovanni, who emerged from the 1960s as one of the leading black poets of revolution, says she remains as radical as ever. Single motherhood, a bout with lung cancer, showers of literary awards and an academic career have enriched but not blunted her edge, as demonstrated in some of the poems from her latest collection, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea. "I'm still anti-war," Giovanni says from her office at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., where she's...

BERLIN -- Paul's day begins at 6 a.m. with a two-mile run. Even in the big city it is quiet in the woods, with only the crunching of the dry leaves to disturb his thoughts of fighting for Iraq."

Long home to millions of Muslims, Great Britain has struggled to balance fundamental democratic rights of free speech and free assembly with calls by a small number of prayer leaders for radical versions of Islam. British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday implicated Islamic extremists in the four bomb blasts that struck London, but cautioned that the people he believed were responsible speak for only a small percentage of Muslims. "We know that these people act in the name of Islam," Blair said, "but we also know that the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims here and abroad are decent and law-abiding people who abhor this act of terrorism every bit as much as we do."

Vanity Fair dubbed him "The Most Hated Lawyer in America." He may also be the most legendary lawyer in America. In a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals requesting William Kunstler as his counsel, Mohammed Saleh, one of the four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center, wrote: "There is no need to say, 'Who is Mr. Kunstler?' He is as a mountain on the ground. I think all of the lawyers are kids compared to him."Indeed, many lawyers in practice today were kids when Mr. Kunstler, then 50, became a star after his unforgettable performance as one of the defense attorneys for the Chicago Seven.

ISLAM, one of the world's great religions, is under attack from within. The nations with the firmest tradition for the protection of religious liberty and a free press -- Britain and the U.S. -- have become the bases for extremists seeking to turn Islam into an aggressive political movement.In Washington last week Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told President Clinton that fundamentalists incited by Iran were infiltrating Muslim institutions in the West.The Israeli informed journalists last Wednesday that "the intelligence community here is showing a growing awareness of the threat."

MOSCOW -- More than 30,000 Muscovites marched in a chilly drizzle from Gorky Park to the Kremlin yesterday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov and the formation of a multiparty "government of trust."Though the public temper in this capital has been frayed by back-to-back shortages of cigarettes and bread, the demonstrators never got more violent than booming chants of "Resign! Resign!" The march was backed by Moscow's radical leadership, elected last March, and the regular uniformed police who lined the two-mile route did not interfere.