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While the motorcades of visiting diplomats and potentates tied up Manhattan's traffic all this week, none of them dared to denounce Islamist Web sites and broadcasts describing the pontiff as "You dog of Rome." While supposedly committed to "freedom of religion" -- another U.N. founding tenet -- none of the "dignitaries" rushing from cocktail parties to press conferences saw fit to comment on the barely veiled threat to the Vatican that the Mujahideen will "shake your thrones and break your crosses in your home. We swear to God to send you people who adore death as much as you adore life."

Because their silence has been bought with petroleum, none of the powerful -- or the slavish media following them around -- expressed any outrage or even concern when a radical Islamist group said that, "We say to the servant of the cross (the pope): Wait for defeat ... We say to infidels and tyrants: Wait for what will afflict you. We will smash the cross ... you will have no choice but Islam or death." Nor did any of these "leaders" express concern that jihadists vowed to attack any "worshippers of the cross," while throngs of enraged Muslims in several countries burned the pope in effigy. It was therefore hardly surprising that no one at the United Nations expressed even regret at the murder of Sister Leonella Sgorbati, an Italian nun, at a children's hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Perhaps the strangest comment in the midst of all this came from outgoing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan who said, in what one may hope is one of his final appearances, "Moreover, just as some who benefit from globalization may feel threatened by it, so, many who are statistically safer from conflict do not feel safe. For that, we have terrorism to thank. It kills or maims relatively few people, compared to other forms of violence." Perhaps that explains why defeating terrorism has never been a priority for the United Nations.

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