London " Graham recounts how Mohamed Atta, a leader of the World Trade Center attack, was for years before 9/11 a ferocious critic of high-rises. A holder of degrees in both architecture and urban planning, he regarded such buildings as destructive of cities’ ancient virtues – as do many conservationists and urban activists, and as, in some ways, does Graham himself."
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51