Yesterday was the twenty first anniversary of the Islamic terror attacks on the United States of America. It was a day, as Ambush Predator most accurately put it, when ‘the world stopped turning’.

I remember looking on at the horror that Islamic extremism had brought to the United States and which was being displayed on the the screens in the office where I was working at the time. I knew the world would be different after September 11^th 2001.

I knew that whatever hopes and dreams that we as individuals might have had for the new century that had not long begun were gone and that civilised people and civilised nations were instead going to have to fight back, in what way I didn’t know at the time, against what was obviously medieval savagery. That day was also when the Islamic mass casualty extremist savagery that had up until mostly, but not always, afflicted countries with Islamic or Jewish majorities, such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel, alighted like a malignant and malformed bird of prey on both America and the wider West.

We should never forget the September 11^th attacks or those who died in them. But we should also not forget which ideology was firmly and squarely behind them and remind those who cower behind the dishonest phrase ‘religion of peace’, just what this ideology has shown that it capable of and why some of us believe that it should be looked on with at least some suspicion.