September 11, 2010, is the ninth anniversary of the morning in 2001 when a 7th century Arabian warriors' creed struck the heart of the modern world at the dawn of the 21st century.Today we find America in a state of confusion and disunity concerning the meaning and lessons to be drawn from the attacks of 9/11. This article is offered both as a remembrance of those who were killed by an act of war, and a plea for understanding the nature of the ideology that motivated the terrorists. The decision by a sharia promoting imam to build a triumphalist mosque adjacent to the 9/11 site has highlighted a great schism in America. There are those who understand the threat posed by fundamentalist Islamists and those who are unable to. Understanding the threat and confronting it at home and abroad is the greatest challenge America faces todayIn 2005 Christopher Hitchens wrote in the british Mirror newspaper:
"We know very well what the "grievances" of the jihadists are. The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law.