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Another year. Another Sept. 11 anniversary. Another opportunity for grievance-mongering Muslim agitators to decry the imagined "epidemic" of "Islamophobia." South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) convened with Mad Maxine Waters and other House Democrats in Washington, D.C., to mark a somber occasion this week. No, not the coordinated jihadi mass murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people of all races, nationalities and religions on 9/11. Instead, they lamented Sept. 12 -- "the 16-year anniversary of the day that South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, and Middle Eastern Americans woke up to a new political reality in which the safety of our...

THE shape of the world changed five years ago, on September 11, 2001. It changed fundamentally, and perhaps forever. Every geo-strategic, economic, political, developmental equation changed because of the war on terror. Whether 9/11 caused it or merely revealed it, we are now alive in the age of terror. You think that an exaggeration? Perhaps economics will dwarf terrorism, and overcome it. But economics itself has changed. For much of the past year, oil was priced at $US70 ($91) a barrel or more, in part as a result of the war on terror. That changes every economic equation. What about...

8:45am (all times are US eastern time): American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. 9:03 am: United Airlines Flight 175 out of Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center. 9:43 am: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. 10:05 am: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.