A large segment of the West's population is in denial as to the danger that radical Islam poses to the World as we know it. The seemingly ridiculous claim that the Bush administration orchestrated the fall of the world trade center towers is taken seriously by many on the Left.
Self-proclaimed liberal Sam Harris took to task the conspiratorial left in a recent Los Angeles Times article. He states:
"A nationwide poll conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that more than a third of Americans suspect that the federal government "assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East;" 16% believe that the twin towers collapsed not because fully-fueled passenger jets smashed into them but because agents of the Bush administration had secretly rigged them to explode.
"Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization.
He states that what liberals fail to understand about certain Muslims is"...it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb — and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.
And regarding the hatred of Bush"... liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are.
"Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies.
As to European liberals..."The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
"To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization."