Diana West is a nationally syndicated writer whose weekly column appears every Sunday in The Washington Examiner. She is also among the most passionate voices in the journalism community on behalf of the First Amendment and freedom of the press.

West has written often and with great insight and courage about the growing threat to freedom of expression here in the U.S. and across the Western world from the spread of Islamic political influences, including especially demands that secular societies be forced to observe sharia law.

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