This time last year I told the story of the other September 11th.
On this day in 1683 King Jan III Sobieski of Poland arrived at Vienna to break the siege of the Turks and rescue the Christian West from the Hosts of Mohammed. The rout of the Ottoman troops before the gates of Vienna by the Polish hussars gave us a little breathing room, a coffee-and-croissants break that lasted for the next
three hundred and eighteen years.
It has been suggested that the reason that the attacks happened on Sept. 11th, was to send the message that Islam has returned from its defeat a little over 300 years ago. If the Islamic army had not been defeated in 1683, would western culture have existed today?
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