The quest for sanity

reflections on September 11 and the aftermath

Ross, who had lost his royal patron, observed: "And indeed if Christians will but
diligently read and observe the Laws and Histories of the Mahometans, they may
blush to see how zealous they are in the works of devotion, piety and charity, how
devout, cleanly and reverend in their Mosques, how obedient to their Priests, that
even the Great Turk himself will attempt nothing without consulting his Mufti." The
revolutionaries, according to their critics, followed their own self-declared ...