by David Pryce-Jones

About the author: David Pryce-Jones is a senior editor of the National Review and the author of The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs.

The terrorist attack on the United States in September 2001 will have grave repercussions over the whole world for years to come. The purpose behind the attack was to separate America and its allies from everyone else, and the Muslim world in particular. For the past decade or so, Muslim extremists have been on the march, fighting neighbors of other religions wherever they find them: Hindus in Kashmir, Jews in Israel, Orthodox Russians in Chechnya, animists and Christians in Africa. In the perspective of the suicide bombers, Americans are Westerners but also Christians, therefore the principal legitimate objects of...