Today is the 10th anniversary of the dastardly attacks on America by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. More people have died in attacks by Islamic militants around the world than Americans since 9/11. It was, therefore, not an attack on America alone, but it was an attack on our collective progressive humanity globally.
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Today is, therefore, an occasion to remember those, who perished in the 9/11 attacks, as well as those who have become victim of Islamic terrorism around the world over these years. It’s also an occasion to assess how we have progressed in battle against Islam’s assault on humanity.
The result-card is not very encouraging. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have lingered longer on than any major war in modern history; The United States alone has spent 4 trillion in those wars, but little real success has been achieved. As far as taming Islamic radicalism is concerned, those wars have achieved little. Arab Springs in the Middle East and North Africa are becoming new springboards for fuelling Islamic radicalism further. In the battle fields, we have achieved nothing except spending colossus sum of money, and wasting thousands of valuable lives.
But we can only measure some success in the battle of ideas, in the front of truth-telling about Islam. The world is much more aware today about where lies the root of Islamic radicalism and terror. Truth-telling about Islam over past years has enlightened large number of Muslims about the troubles with Islam. The number of Muslim apostates are growing at an exponential rate. If we can hold on for another ten years and continue the battle of truth-telling about Islam, we will be standing a very strong ground to fight and bring down Islam.
Humanity’s ultimate salvation in face of Islam’s long-lasting assault doesn’t lie in the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan, not in guns, tanks, drones, bombs or even nuclear weapons. It lies in the battle of enlightening the Muslim mind. And we have made considerable progress. Let us hope that we can press on and let not the sacrifice of victims of the 9/11 attacks, as well as of those who have fallen victim to Islam since its founding, go waste.
