The latest survey of American Muslims won't reassure their fellow citizens.

At a certain point in reading God is not Great, Christopher Hitchens broadside against religion as a false, immoral, man-made construction, I half-expected Hitchens to write that if God were real and omnipotent, and consequently Hitchens so wrong, then God should have arranged things so as to prevent him from writing his book.

Sixty years ago, the Brooklyn Dodgers new first baseman went 0-3, grounding out to third, flying out to left and hitting into a double play.

It remains to be seen what was accomplished at the Fatah-Hamas summit held earlier this month. Yet one thing was made abundantly clear by the very fact of the meeting Palestinian Christians have new cause to worry about their religious liberty.

Canada's ideological left, confident of its control of academe, the Supreme Court and the federal Liberal Party, appeared this month ready to declare war on its most formidable enemy of all, namely conservative Christian churches that refuse to make their teachings conform to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as defined by the Supreme Court.

The Israel-Palestine conflict presented its contorted face to Canada with a steaming, hysterical anger last week.

When the same-sex marriage issue was being debated before parliament and the courts, many of us argued that the entire issue had ceased being about toleration long ago but was now about affirmation.

The Soviet Union was never comfortable living in the same world with the Vatican. The most recent disclosures document that the Kremlin was prepared to go to any lengths to counter the Catholic Churchs strong anti-Communism.

Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, the Second World War-era Swedish diplomat whom the United Nations has called "The greatest humanitarian of the 20th century."

The timing could not be more apposite. After the humorless banalities of the CBCs Little Mosque on the Prairie come the grotesque realities of Channel 4s Undercover Mosque in the U.K.