Mark Steyn:
[...] The president of the United States congratulates himself on his
fearlessness in standing up 
for the right of a woman to choose to wear
a hijab but won't say a word about the young Muslim girls murdered by
their families in America, Canada, Britain, Sweden, Germany, and around
the world for choosing not to wear a hijab. As is now
traditional for the observances of the anniversary, the media offer
their doleful reports on American Muslims' "fears" of a "backlash" against them, even though the post-9/11 period has been an era not of Islamophobia but of weirdly insistent Islamophilia. And in our broader culture, self-loathing, trutherism, and other fin du civilisation poses run rampant, even unto the heart of the government.
9/11 was bad news if you were enjoying the good life in a jihadist
training camp in the Hindu Kush. But, over the long run, it was a
useful lesson in the limits of western will.