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Recent Publications by New English Review Authors
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple
In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple
Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq
Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky
Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple
Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq
Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple
What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple
The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq
Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq
Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky
Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq
Sunday, 7 September 2008
9/11 – Islamic Terror Hits America

by Jerry Gordon & Catherine Martin (Sept. 2008)


On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists, well educated young men - Saudi Egyptian, and Yemeni nationals - hijacked and flew four  airliners (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Flight 175 from Boston’s Logan airport, American Airlines Flight 77 from Dulles airport and  United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark Airport), with captive passengers aboard,  into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and one, due to brave actions of the passengers aboard, having been diverted from crashing into the Capital building in Washington, crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania instead.  more...

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11 Sep 2008
Basel Hammoud

While one could say that the perpetrators of the 9/11 crimes hated the west and its values, I believe their main aim was to provoke the kind of reaction that transpired. They want a clash of religions, cultures, in order to promote their fanatic brand of islam. Islam coexisted peacefully with Christianity and Judaism in the Iberian peninsula for centuries and there is no reason why it can't now.



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