Written by Yoram Ettinger

Sept. 11, 2001 represented a horrific awakening from the post-Cold War delusions of "peace dividends" and a "new world order" to the reality of a "new world disorder" and a worldwide surge of Islamic terrorism.

The 9/11 reality has exposed Islamic terrorism as a clear, present and lethal danger to the free world, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel's existence, U.S. pressure on Israel, generous U.S. foreign aid to Muslim countries and U.S. military support of Muslim national aspirations in Afghanistan (against a Moscow-backed regime), in Bosnia and in Kosovo (against Serbia). Autocratic Islamic regimes consider Western-style religious, political, educational and economic liberties to be fatal threats. Islamic terrorists consider Western democracies to be infidel societies and geopolitical obstacles to be subjugated via terrorism and holy wars (jihad), as has been the practice of Islam – confronting "infidels" and "apostates' -- since the 7th century.

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