Western world did encounter Islam centuries before September 2001, and resisted it. September 11th attack should have woken the West to the danger. But it did not.
But now the West is ready. Islam will die. Islam will die in the next decade or so.
Islam will die soon. It’s true that there are two billion Muslims. But the moment they realize that it’s Islam that is imprisoning them into poverty, they too will reject Islam.
For now, I pay homage to those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001. I was in Berkeley, San Francisco Bay area that morning, on the other side of the continent from NY city. I realized the implications of Islamic terrorism. Terrorism is almost entirely Islamic. Therefore the adjective Islamic is superfluous: no other ideology promotes terrorism; only Islam does. If you see terrorism, you can safely assume that it is Islamic. It’s not likely that Buddhists or Hindus or Jains have anything do do with the death and destruction. Only Islam motivates people to kill.
Islam is the most dangerous ideology, in competition with socialism. Socialism kills too but not as many as Islam kills. Why? Because Islam has been around for many centuries more than socialism.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley. I was woken up around 6 AM Pacific time. A few days later I posted on my UC Berkeley blog. Here it is, for the record.
9/11: 21 Years Ago – Atanu Dey : Life is a Random Draw
Be well, take good care, and keep in touch.