On April 28, U.S. soldiers in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, discovered unexplained buried wires running into a new school for girls. The Americans followed the wires and found them connected to detonators attached to propane tanks hidden beneath the floors and artillery shells secreted in the ceilings and walls. The terrorists who constructed this deathtrap hoped that the carnage would discourage other little girls from attending school.

On May 3, in Gujrat, Pakistan, a terror cell linked to the Taliban detonated a bomb at the gate of a girls' school. The wrath of these radical Islamists was aroused by the notion that girls would learn to read and write.

On April 29, Iranian police arrested 31 women for holding a peaceful vigil outside Tehran's Revolutionary Court. Encouraged by advances being made by women in neighboring Iraq, they were protesting Iranian laws that discriminate against women. The police shoved and kicked the women into a curtained minibus and drove them to Evin prison, where they were blindfolded and interrogated. One of the protesters, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, told the Associated Press that the police and prosecutors "insisted that foreign governments were exploiting our cause."

These are but a few of the most recent examples of how women are treated by radical Islam. Nearly all of these events are ignored by the mainstream media -- as are the innumerable ways from the Balkans to the Hindu Kush to the Tigris and Euphrates, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines have become the protectors of Muslim women.

Thanks to young Americans wearing flak jackets and helmets, hundreds of schools have been built for Muslim girls, millions of women have the right to vote, scores of female health care clinics have been opened and hundreds of thousands of women now work, have their own bank accounts, use cell phones -- even serve in elected office. But all of these advances may soon stop if our Congress insists that "the war is lost" and U.S. troops must now come home.

Mothers Day. It's a wonderful occasion for Pelosi and her comrades in Congress to reflect on what will happen to millions of Muslim women if Congress pulls the plug on their protectors.