WUI (Writing under the influence)

On that day, Polish king, Jan Sobieski, started the battle that would end the Turkish conquest of Europe started 300 years earlier. The battle of Vienna was, like the Christian crusades, a defensive response to Muslim imperialistic advances. September 11, 2001 was not a coincidence and it was not caused by anything US or Israel may have done but by the movement that started shortly after Mohammed died in 632 A.D.

That movement's "accomplishments" since 9/11/2001 are listed by Christopher Hitchens in a WSJ editorial:

(1) The reopening of a restaurant in Bali, where several dozen Australian holidaymakers and many Indonesian civilians had earlier been torn to shreds. (2) The explosion of a bomb at a Tube station in London which is regularly used by two of my children. (3) The murder of a senior Shiite cleric outside his place of worship in Iraq. (4) The attempt to destroy the Danish economy--and to torch Danish embassies and civilians--as a consequence of the publication of a few caricatures in the Danish press. (5) The murder of the U.N. envoy to Baghdad: a heroic Brazilian named Sergio Vieira de Mello, as vengeance (according to his murderers) for his role in shepherding East Timor to independence. (6) The near-successful attempt to blow up the Indian parliament in New Delhi, and two successful attempts to disrupt the commerce and society of Mumbai. (7) The destruction of the Golden Dome in Samara: a place of aesthetic as well as devotional importance. (8) The bombing of ancient synagogues in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. (9) The evisceration in the street of a Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh, and the lethal threats that drove his Somali-born colleague, a duly elected member of the Dutch parliament, into hiding and then exile. (10) The ritual slaughter on video of a Jewish reporter for this newspaper.

As Hitchens himself says, "This list is not exhaustive or in any special order, and it does not include any of the depredations undertaken by the votaries of the Iranian version of Islamic fundamentalism."

The movement will be stopped not by compromising and diplomacy but by a final victory. I'm very afraid that the victor may not be us.