SheLion, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. 9/11 has given Islam and the vile ideology behind it a good "airing" in the west and many people have woken up from thinking we could "live and let live" with Islam, to recognizing its true destructive potential.
I do not believe that Islam can not be turned back. Its just a matter of when the pendulum swings back the other way. Hopefully, we can make others aware of whats really going on here, and Islamic expansion can be stopped ASAP. If we let the cancer spread, the surgery will have to be more radical, and there will be greater losses on both sides. I hope it does not get to that.
My faith is in leaders like President Bush who appoint people who are well aware of the global Jihad, such as Daniel Pipes (and his expose of the ISB) who I linked to at the beginning of this thread.
I'm sure what I'm going to say will sound all wrong.
But in a way we were lucky to take such a big hit on 911.
If it had continued to be this slow subtle immersion sort of conquest, we might never have had a chance.
But when the moslems got impatient and pulled off that attack, enough of us may have awakened from our slumber.