Five years after 9/11

Can't believe it's been 5 years since 9/11. I vividly recall that morning. We were living at the Avalon apartments on the Alameda in San Jose. For some reason I was late for work that day; I had just come out of the shower and Sandhya gets off the phone and asks me to turn on the TV. She had been talking to her New York office when she was told that a plane had crashed into the twin towers.

I immediately turned on Fox news and there it was on screen. Both of us watched in complete shock the towers burning and then collapsing. I was speechless. The first thing that came to my mind was Muslim Terrorists. And that was the first thing I told Sandhya. She sort of agreed with me, although she is not the type to stereotype people that way.

This is indeed a war of civilisations. The Muslims want to conquer the world and either convert us to Islam or kill us. I sincerely hope the West wins this war of civilisations.

Interestingly, I came across another event that happened on September 11--the year 1565--to be precise. This is when the Ottoman turks were beaten back from the island of Malta by a ragtag group of knights and inexperienced locals. This was probably the singular event that saved western europe from becoming muslim. Here is the link to the posting that describes this historic event.