9/11 Exposed The Weakness Of A Post-Christian West

Article author: 
John Daniel Davidson
Article publisher: 
The Federalist
Article date: 
12 September 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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... The West failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict [with Islam] because it was committed to a secular liberal account of the world that dismissed the role of religion and religious claims in shaping cultures and societies...

Specifically, it indulged the delusion that the difference between the Muslim world and the West could be chalked up to material causes like lack of economic opportunity, U.S. support for Israel, and so on. Instead of grappling with the very real differences between the Muslim world and the West, our leaders acted as if those differences were superficial, and their response to 9/11 was the opposite of what it should have been...

Instead of shutting down immigration from Muslim-majority countries, they increased Muslim immigration to prove that America wasn’t racist and was multicultural. Instead of recognizing that not all cultures and religions are compatible with American society, they doubled down on multiculturalism and a conception of America as an idea, rather than a people with a shared culture, shaped by Christian civilization moral norms...

At the heart of all this was a belief on the part of our leaders that America was nothing more than a set of propositions about how society should be governed. It was free markets, rule of law, and individual freedom, nothing more...

The tolerance and neutrality we took for granted, it turned out, was a unique feature of the Christianity that created western civilization. It simply didn't exist in the Islamic world...

It doesn't work to import Muslims to the West. They do not assimilate...

We have to go back to understanding America not as a blank slate, not as an mish-mash of all the world’s cultures and religions, but as a specifically Christian nation that orders itself around Christian moral claims...

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