Leaving the US? Where is there to go?

I personally had my eyes set on Amsterdam as the place to go, but then these two articles got me thinking -- this is a global war on secularism and anti-fundamentalism. First there was this story that Andrew Sullivan has been pointing out. From AP:

Dutch police have arrested eight suspected Muslim radicals as part of the investigation into the killing of an outspoken filmmaker, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The suspects were detained in the 24 hours after Theo van Gogh was killed as he bicycled down an Amsterdam street, according to the spokeswoman for the prosecution, Dop Kruimel. Six of the detainees are Moroccan, one is Algerian and the other has dual Spanish-Moroccan nationality, she said.

The suspected killer -- a 26-year-old Muslim with dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship -- was arrested Tuesday after a shootout with police. He has not been identified.

Van Gogh, 47, a great grandnephew of the painter Vincent van Gogh, had received death threats after his recent film sharply criticized how women are treated under Islam. He was repeatedly shot and stabbed. "Don't do it. Don't do it. Have mercy. Have mercy!" the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted Van Gogh as begging his killer.

Freedom of speech does not always mean that you still won't get killed by some nutjob.

And then there was this from the Chicago Tribune:

Surveying the world beyond the cloistered walls of its Roman enclave, the Vatican sees much to worry about: Terrorism, war, AIDS and poverty are ravaging the lives of many of its constituents around the globe.

But of all the ills afflicting the modern world, none is causing deeper concern than the rising tide of what Vatican officials call "militant secularism" washing over Europe.

Wow, militant secularism. How about militant freedom?

I'm afraid that we're all going to be fighting the Culture Wars for the remainder of our lifetimes. I have no doubt that we'll be winning this war, it's just that there will be casualties along the way. We'll win some, they'll win some. In the end however, what is RIGHT and what is TRUE will win. It just might take a generation to win this war. And if I have to fight this war no matter where I go, I'd rather fight it in a country I know and love, speaking in the language I'm most articulate, and surrounded by the love and affection of my family and friends.