“I don’t think there’s a war here, a war front here in the United States at this point. I think if the whole scenario continues the way it has, inevitably the United States is going to be reaching a type of war front. Yeah. But not right now.”

Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland,

in a 1994 interview with Steve Emerson for the television documentary “Jihad in America.”

Beside the obvious conclusion that appeasement of thuggish dictators or mad religious fanatics nearly always proves disastrous, another by-product of our largest one-day loss of U.S. lives since 
the Civil War was a rather tectonic shift in public sentiment, that being the revulsion for the moral and cultural relativism typified by many such as Boston Globe editorialist, Cathy Young. Her essay, “Ecumenical Intolerance” makes her, as good as any, a leading representative of what we can call the N.M.W.A (the non-Muslim western apologists).

Some of that revulsion was displayed by the New York City police and firefighters, who at the concert headlined by the Rolling Stones to benefit the families of their lost colleagues, booed the transparent diversity peddlers, More »