Navy,    and     from    the     poetry  of  Dante   to  the     humble
croissant,  the people  of  the West    were    supposed    to  never
forget   that    Islam   was     a   predatory   religion    of  war.    But
following   the attack  on  9/11,   an  attack  by  the religion    of  war
in   the     very    heart   of  the     West,  the  educated    elite   did     not
contradict  George  Bush    and his promotion   of  The Grand
Lie. None    of  the     educated    elite   drew    attention   to  a
thousand    years   of  history which   proved  that    the President
of  the United  States  was blatantly   lying.
This    speech  by  George  Bush    at  the start   of  the twenty-
first   century will    be  seen    as  the crucial point   from    which   the
elite   in  the West    brazenly    lied    to  those   who had delegated
authority    to  this    elite. At   the     very    time    that    the    American
public   needed  to  grasp   what    was     the     cause   of,     and     the
implications    of, this    attack  (the    biggest single  assault on  the
USA  at  least   since   Pearl   Harbor),    a   Republican  President
gave     the     public  not     the     truth,  but     lies.^50 Not    surprisingly,
President   George  Bush    cited   no  chapter and verse   from    the
Koran    to  substantiate    his     claim   that    “Islam  is  peace”.    The
President    did     not     even    tell    his     audience    if  what    he  was
saying   was     taken   from    the     Koran   or  taken   from    some
commentary  on  the Koran.^51 The   world’s only    superpower,
a    country     whose   entire  national    defence     system  failed,
permitting  an  enemy   to  slaughter   thousands   of  people  in
multiple     simultaneous    terrorist   attacks,    was     blatantly
deceived    by  its own Commander   in  Chief.  As   is  obvious
from     the     warning     signs   about   Islam   listed  above,  signs
which    permeate    the     culture     and     institutions    of  so  many
countries    in  the    West,    Bushʼs  Grand   Lie     could   only    work
with     the     complicity  of  the     elite   throughout  politics,
