[stands2reason]

Just another example of how sexual immorality isn't a "victimless" sin. There are all sorts of consequences to it, none of them good.

[steve-b]

This silly notion that the West is to blame for being attacked is dissected, much better than I can, by Eric S. Raymond's Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto, discussed on this thread.

A particularly apropos point is made in the latest revision:

3.THAT the terrorists have declared and are pursuing a war not against the vices of Western civilization but against its core virtues; against the freedom of thought and speech and conscience, against the life of reason; against the equality of women, against pluralism and tolerance; against, indeed, all the qualities which separate civilized human beings from bestiality, slavery, and fanaticism;