Islam and the Left: An Unholy Alliance

At 8:46 a.m. on the morning of September 11^th, 2001 a plane hijacked by Muslim terrorists took down the World Trade Center’s North Tower, killing thousands of civilians and rescue workers, and taking down the entire structure an hour later. The horrors of the first impact were soon followed up with a second; at 9:03 a.m. yet another plane was launched into the South Tower at the hands of Al Qaeda terrorist operatives, killing many more innocent civilians—mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters… New Yorkers. As devastating and significant as the loss of life these terrorist acts incurred was, their symbolic significance was greater yet. The first foreign attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 terrorist attacks constituted a proclamation of Holy War on the Western values of Freedom, Democracy, and separation of Church and State (i.e. secularism). The questions on the minds of all New Yorker’s that morning were “How could they, Why would they?” quickly followed by “They will pay!” With the American Psyche in a state of mourning, and with sentiments of revenge following close on its heels, the U.S—the ‘sleeping giant’—was surely asleep no longer.