[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The commonly misunderstood Crusades were used as a cudgel against Catholicism here until 9/11.

Then they disappeared, to be replaced by the commonly misunderstood Galileo affair.

This is progress.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I know this may sound strange but I think of 9/11 as a positive. There were two major events that stopped Islam cold.

It was 9/11/1683 at the gates of Vienna that the polish army shown up at the point everyone knew Ottoman Empire was going to be stopped.

The other was October of 732 the Battle of Tours
Charles Martel (the Hammer)

These two events should be similar to our 4 of July for all of western civilization