For the second time in a week, Dobson suggested the loss of U.S. cities to an Islamic terror attack

On the May 16 edition of his Focus on the Family radio show, Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson broadcast an interview with evangelical pastor Michael Youssef, founder of The Church of The Apostles and host of the syndicated radio and TV program Leading the Way, from an earlier event held in Naples, Florida, in which the two discussed "Insights on Radical Islam." During the broadcast, Dobson said that "it's a matter of time" before a terror attack destroys "a city or two or three or four." Two days earlier, Dobson had cited the "danger" posed by Iran and the possibility of subsequent "pile on" attacks by "North Korea and Russia and China."

Youssef cast the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a vindication of his critique of radical Islam, describing the attacks as the moment when "the lights came on." He continued, "Now, finally, what I've been trying to do since the early '80's is gonna happen. People are gonna wake up." continued →