Michelle Malkin points to the Washington Times report that Harry Potter is one of the most requested books from the Gitmo prisoners.

I have often said that America's strength has always been its plurality and that the biggest weapon we have is the English language and American culture which, like a cancer, seeks to turn everything into itself, to fold its arms around the things that seem most alien at first.

In order to defeat radical Islam, we must ingest its tenets, digest them for any truth or meaning, and then excrete the fallacies and inconsistencies to move on to the next thing.

Now, here comes the hard part for a lot of conservatives...we must do the same thing with fundamentalist Christianity. Any belief system which seeks to set itself above the sanctity of individual freedom must be ingested, digested, excreted and destroyed if any new world is to be reached.

Fundamentalist Christians have a reason to be scared of Harry Potter--it's a better story than the one they're selling. It is a story that has captured the minds of millions of children and adults all around the world in a way that Christian missionaries never can--through osmotic cultural hegemony that appeals to the individual through art instead of dogma.

I say good riddance to the End-of the World philosophy. We can use a little magic in our lives.

We should be sending more copies of the Potter books and movies to Gitmo, the Vatican, and Jerusalem.