David Pryce-Jones notes that
"The mindset ... spreads throughout the Muslim world that the West has a deliberate policy to wipe out Islam. In the five years since 9/11, Islamists everywhere have made great progress in establishing another of the great simplistic, indeed absolutely false, Us-and-Them divides."
The West has no policy whatsoever to "wipe out Islam." Political correctness, in fact, has given Islam an exalted, protected "space" in the West. But what does truth count in a world of propaganda and lies?
While the West has no desire to "wipe out Islam", there should be a strong resistance to ourselves being wiped out by radical Islamic jihadists. Michelle Malkin commemorates 9/11 with a series of important posts. She praises those writers who have done so much to expose the radical vision of said jihadists. I share her gratitude. She writes:
We owe these and many other outspoken dissidents our thanks. I personally owe Robert [Spencer], Daniel [Pipes] , Steve [Emerson[ , Diana West, and Andy Bostom deepest gratitude for helping educate me about a threat I shrugged my shoulders at before 9/11. More: Bat Ye'or. Oriana Fallaci. Wafa Sultan. Aayan Hirsi Ali. Irshad Manji. Ibn Warraq. Bruce Bawer. MEMRI. Bloggers: Charles Johnson, The Jawa Report, Laura Mansfield, Gates of Vienna, The Counterterrorism Blog, Zombie, Honest Reporting, Paul Belien and The Brussels Journal. So many more.
Not all of them agree on every aspect of the Islamic terrorist threat to the West or how best to defend ourselves against it. And I don't agree with everything they've written. But all of these men and women are inspirations who share a common intellectual defiance against submission to jihad.
Michelle Malkin points readers of her blog to Robert Spencer's special Hot Air video which provides historical context for the 9/11 attacks.