How was 9.11 a turning point in history?

Answer 1

That was the day that the world finally came to the full realization that the Islamic Fundamentalists were really only the tip of the iceberg of religious fanaticism. The world is still awakening to the fact that not everyone believes in religious freedom as an enlightened concept to be embraced, and that the concept of "live and let live" that all nations of the west espouse is not universal.

The average man on the street is finally beginning to get a sense that these, indeed, are scary people whose belief set is still entrenched in the 12th century.