"Over the past few days in France, at least 17 innocent people have been killed by radical Muslims. It really doesn't matter what group they're affiliated with - these killers are all the same. They murder, torture, rape in the name of their god Allah. They kill their own, they kill infidels, and they think they are going to heaven for doing that. But as Talking Points reported last night, rather than confront the jihad, many people, including President Obama, are doing everything they can to avoid the central issue: how do you defeat Muslim terrorism? Instead we constantly hear this kind of stuff from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof: 'I think we have to be very, very careful not to engage in religious profiling and recognize that one can't blame 1.6 billion adherents of this vast and complex religion.' We asked Mr. Kristof to appear with us, but he will not because he's afraid. He is one of the chief apologists for Islam throughout the world. As soon as the mass murder took place on Wednesday, Kristof turned out a column saying in essence, 'Don't blame Muslims.' At this point everybody knows that blaming all Muslims for terrorism is stupid and wrong, but even more foolish is the world looking away from the continuing threat. Maybe Mr. Kristof and other left-wing media should address this question: Why is there no coordinated strategy to defeat the jihad?"

For the latest on the situation in France, The Factor turned to FNC correspondent Amy Kellogg. "There is a lot of forensics work going on," she reported from Paris, "and we are getting some details about the standoff. Police learned of the links among the terrorists through phone taps - there were hundreds of phone calls in the last year between the woman who is still at large and the wife of one of the Kouachi brothers." Kellogg also elaborated on Paris's "no-go zones," Muslim enclaves where police and outsiders are usually unwelcome. "Some of these neighborhoods have young people who come under the sway of radical preachers. That has been discussed and written about, but this week the police have made numerous arrests in Paris and outside Paris, and they say they have not run into any resistance doing their work."

Congressmen Peter King and Dutch Ruppersberger joined The Factor to analyze the fight against terror. "I don't believe the president has a coherent strategy," the Republican King declared. "The first thing we have to do is identify the enemy, which is Islamist terrorism. We have to put political correctness aside and we need to have surveillance in Muslim communities. You have to go all out." Ruppersberger, a Democrat, defended the administration's efforts. "We've had a plan since 9/11 and we deal with some of the best intelligence people in the world. The best defense against terrorism is intelligence, and we have people working on that around the clock." Nevertheless, The Factor contended that "we are fighting a defensive war while ISIS takes thousands of miles in the Middle East."

How should America fight the war on Islamic terror? Military analysts Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Col. David Hunt gave their prescriptions for victory. "One, you accept that you are in a war," Peters declared. "Two, you name the enemy. Three, you get the lawyers off the battlefield. You accept that there will be collateral damage and you do not apologize for it. You do not nation-build, you go wherever the terrorists are and you kill them, and you leave behind smoking ruins and crying widows!" Hunt added that we should be hitting the terrorists and their enablers in their bank accounts. "I have no issue with killing terrorists and we also have to go after them militarily, but there also has to be economic pressure. You have to get after the states that sponsor this, and the president has to unite the country."

The Factor was joined by moderate Muslim leader Zuhdi Jasser, who has long contended that Islam needs a reformation. "It takes some tough medicine for us to wake up," he said. "I pray there is no violence against Muslims, but we need urgency and there has been denial. The best thing that can happen to Muslims and Islam is to defeat Islamism and all Islamic states. There is a large political movement where the Islamists believe their states are better for secular states." The Factor worried that Jasser and other upstanding Muslim citizens may face a backlash because "people have had enough with the Muslims

For a different take on the terror war, The Factor turned to FNC's Geraldo Rivera. "We are not fighting Muslim extremism," Rivera said, "we are specifically fighting Sunni Muslim extremism. The Shiites are absolutely no threat to the United States - countries like Syria, Iraq, and Iran represent no threat to us. The threat to us comes from Saudi Arabia and Sunni Muslim extremism funded by Saudi Arabia, the people who funded 9/11 and the U.S. embassy bombings. But we hold hands with these people who want to see our civilization destroyed."

The Factor was joined by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who recently left his Fox News show to focus on a possible run for the White House. Huckabee laid out his thinking on global terrorism. "If you don't recognize that the nature of your enemy is religious," he said, "it will be hard to defeat him, and the very word 'jihad' indicates that this is a religiously-motivated war. We have to identify the enemy and cut off their funding. We have to make it clear to Saudi Arabia and others that if they give money to these guys they're done with the United States. I'd also cut off support to the United Nations, which has become a total joke." The Factor stressed the importance of taking the offensive: "Everybody's afraid to confront the jihad and the jihadists know it. They think we're weak and they're plotting at this very moment to kill us. We don't have the political will to defeat this enemy."

Harvey Clarke, Port Hueneme, CA: "Bill, you were very rude to the two Muslim guests. You were just plain bad."

Sharon Roberts, Chicago, IL: "Mr. O'Reilly, you are correct - the world is avoiding the danger of radical Islam so as to not offend Muslims I submit that multiculturalism is a danger."

Cathy Bell, Scottsdale, AZ: "While most Muslims are not extremists, unless they begin to stand up and denounce the jihadists, they will soon be grouped with them. Silence implies consent."

It's a good idea to inform your children and grandchildren that there is evil in the world that must be confronted, and that good nations like America do exactly that. It's also important to let the urchins know that the U.S. military and police are doing a great job protecting us.