Nothing is more dangerous than a civilization that has only just discovered it is dying. The Western world watched horrified as suicide attacks multiplied from a few dozen a year during the 1990s to a peak of more than 350 during 2007. Muslim radicals perpetuated virtually all of these. But there is nothing uniquely Muslim about terrorism in general, or suicide attacks in particular. Men hold their lives cheap when they cease to believe that their culture will endure—because the persistence of our culture makes it possible for our lives to have meaning beyond the brief span of our physical
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