Around the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda officials typically cannot resist invading the consciousness of decent people with reminders of their past misdeeds, along with the fact that they still lurk menacingly in the shadows. This year, though, for the first time in a long while, terrorism financier Osama bin Laden himself apparently has [...]

The most encouraging news of the last week — the results of the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey showing a decline in Muslim support for violence against civilians — failed to grab many prominent headlines. But it contributes to evidence that a substantial number of the largely silent majority of Islamic moderates may have [...]