The founders of America said our rights come from God. That is what we have celebrated recently with America at 250.

But there is a very different understanding of who God is between Christianity, the worldview held by the founding fathers, and radical Islam. As the whole world saw 25 years ago, when nearly 3,000 people were killed.

By way of review, on September 11, 2001, 19 Muslim men hijacked four airplanes filled with passengers. They managed to fly two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City – bringing down those magnificent towers. A third plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C.

And the fourth hijacked plane was also on its way to Washington, but because the flight was providentially delayed, and because passengers aboard heard about the other three hijackings, they decided to fight back. This caused the plane to crash into an empty field in Pennsylvania.

Scholars note that the motivation of the 19 hijackers was what they understood to be rewards in the next life. They died as jihadist “martyrs” to their cause.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright, observes, “Martyrdom promised such young men an ideal alternative to a life that was so sparing in its rewards. A glorious death beckoned........

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