In Britain, academics are frightened

Nick Cohen describes a public debate over radical Islam at the alma mater of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, better known in the US as the underwear bomber. "When we sat down, they played a video that opened with shots of the Twin Towers after they'd been hit, then moved on to images of mujahideen fighting, firing rockets in Afghanistan," one member of the audience told the New York Times. "It was