If not Islam, then who were we attacked by on 9-11, poverty? Bin Laden claimes the 9-11 attacks and described the hijackers as the “Magnificent 19″ of Islam. Mohammed (note the name) Atta had a Master’s Degree in urban planning. Did he have no employment prospects? Or perhaps you think that the attacks were all part of some dark plot by Dick Cheney? Obviously, you have not read or followed developments in radical Islam in the past 60 years and Sayid Qtub abd Hassan El Banna. As Solzhenitsyn said, Stalinism was “communism done by experts.” In the same way, Salafi Islam is the real Islam. “Moderate” Muslims are auto-wish fulfillment for the declining West. We have been fighting Islam for 1,000 years. We just do not think so because there was a “cease fire” for the past 150 years. Remember the Barbary Pirates? Ireland was raided by Muslims for Christian slaves as recently as 1800. As Bob Wright says, we do not want to engage in self-fulfilling prophesies, but the problem is that we have to deny reality to avoid it.
