Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Another infamous case in point is the recent “Fear Inc.” report released by the Democratic Party’s shadowy Center for American Progress, the brainchild of George Soros and the Clintons. According to this tainted document, it is chiefly Jewish terrorism experts like Frank Gaffney and David Yerushalmi who are to blame for persuading Americans to adopt a negative view of Islam — assuming this is the case to begin with. The left insists, as David Horowitz and Robert Spencer write in their recent pamphlet Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future, “that the problem America and the world face is not Islamic jihad but ‘Islamophobia’.” Such reports are “highly distorted…cooking the data not to enlighten but to propagandize — and ignoring the reality of Islamic jihad activity altogether.” It is almost as if 9/11 were little more than an unfortunate accident or a dust mote on the radar screen. As Daniel Greenfield correctly argues, “the Center for American Progress and the Democratic Party do the work of the jihadists and have also become part of the problem.”
At the same time, these accessories to mayhem are busily warning the nation about right-wing Christian terrorists who apparently pose an imminent threat to the stability of the country and of the West in general. Thus, the killing spree of the Norwegian maniac Anton Breivik was shamefully exploited by the Islamic-appeasing left to prove that we had as much or more to fear from the Christian right than from the jihadists of the Muslim world. As historian Bruce Thornton points out, “The absurdity of these arguments is patent. First, the number of attacks attributable to self-professed Christian terrorists is miniscule compared to the toll of Islamic jihadists — 17,489 since 9/11, as counted and documented by Religion of Peace. More important, though the former terrorists may call themselves Christian, only a tiny handful of Christians would accept that label, contrary to the wide acceptance and approval of jihadist terrorism that can be found throughout the Muslim world.”
Liberal rhetoric always seems to come up short of the facts in its effort to trivialize a tragedy and sugarcoat its perpetrators. This is the case not only for the academic, intellectual, and political class but for much of the literary guild as well. I think in particular of the poets collected in Sam Hamill’s turgid and melodramatic Poets Against the War volume, stuffed with poets of unmerited reputations. Thankfully there are better poets who still exist among us, such as Michael Lind who, though apparently a man of the left, in a poem called “Maragheh and Alamut” from Parallel Lives, cannot forget “smoldering south Manhattan” and “the burning columns”; and Billy Collins’ “The Names,” in my estimation the most moving memorial ever composed for those who died in the collapsing towers.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE NAME OF ISLAM
1) The September 11 2001 massacre was done ‘in the name of Islam.’
By Bin Laden’s open declared “holy war” Jihad against Christians and Jews, as he openly admitted the crime as a jihad. [books.google.com/books?id=fNqdmUnqTJUC&pg=PA70] In fact, Bin Laden denounced US ‘ presence in Saudi Arabia already in 1994 [books.google.com/books?id=kpHaCDAQcgUC&pg=PA301].
2) By ringleader of the 19 Arab-Islamic hijackers: Mohammed Atta, who gave directions to shout “Allah Akbar.” [books.google.com/books?id=c6obAQAAMAAJ&q=atta] [nytimes.com/2002/07/07/books/chapters/0707-1st-dsouz.html?pagewanted=2] [guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/30/terrorism.september113]
2) And as al-Qaeda terrorists bragged on al-Jazeera shouting just that [edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/12/alqaeda.911.claim] when they saw the images of the flying planes into the buildings that butchered 3,000 and injured 6,000 innocent people.
3) Just as the (grandchildren of Arab immigrants who use civilians causing their deaths in order to appear as “victims.” Those that call themselves since 1960s exclusively as) “Palestinians” celebrated the attacks shouting “Allah akbar.” [nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0911.html] [pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel.palestine/campagna.html]
It is unfortunate that we spend so much time and effort countering the inanities of the left, but it is an inescapable feature of life that these people will never completely go away until the human race is a lot smarter than it is now.
And, until that utopia arrives, leftist will not be acknowledging, even if they have a secret inkling that it is true, that Jihad is bound up in the doctrines of Islam. To admit to such a belief means that that they have been fundamentally in error about something that is blindingly obvious to the rest of us. And admitting to a failure of judgment of this magnitude not only seems to be too painful for them, but in some way they understand that to do so might actually be harmful to their mental health.
Julia Gorin clearly demonstrates that the terrorism we have been experiencing in the past two decades is a result of our having aided, abetted, and appeased Muslim terrorists overseas.
The “root cause” of Islamic terrorism is our failure to put a stop to it with firm and uncompromising resolve. Islam is not a religion in the sense of the word that we understand in the West. Rather, Islam is an expansionist, enemy, totalitarian political ideology that seeks to eliminate everything outside of itself. The Qur’an requires Muslims to be the enemy of unbelievers (meaning us), whether they show it on the surface or not. And there are reasons why unobservant Muslims can easily become radicalized at any time.
To me 9/11 was the perfect example of what happens when a super power over reacts. RIP to all those that died, suffered and suffer still.
Gen. Hayden said it best during his CNN interview today, when he said the next terrorist attack will happen, it’s how we react and deal with it that’s important.
Do we use a scapel or another sword? Our next reaction has to be balanced. CT is not the only means to prevent and deter, we need to interact more with others, volunteer in a Mosque, learn Arabic. Love one another.
Enjoy the day and remember.
Thank you for this. Hate only begets Hate. God Bless those that suffer still.
the US should kick out all of its illegals, you guys are also terrorists, in my book!!!
Maria Gonzalez said, “Hate begets hate.” This meme works only if it works. Otherwise, it is naive or stupid or disastrous or suicidal. Sometimes you can only try love or forbearance or tolerance once. If it fails, then you become a victim of the much abhorred “Social Darwinism.” In short, you get eaten for lunch. Now, Maria, if you, your children and grandchildren would like to take up residence as a Christian or a Jewish family in Iraq or Saudi Arabia and then report back to us on your experiences, we will be glad to read your postings.
Enjoy the day ? Volunteer in a mosque ?
Why ?
Do you follow sharia ? If not — Islamists want you dead.
Why do we have to react — react ? — to anything ? How about live and let live ?
I nominate you to fly to – where ? — Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia — to talk your way through this with people bent on your destruction. Make sure your life insurance is paid up.
Claudia Rosett provides a good reason to not volunteer in wahhabist sect mosques: See http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/11/15-of-the-19-hijackers-were-saudi/
“15 of the 19 Hijackers Were Saudi…
… and the wahhabi indoctrination continues today. Here’s the latest report from the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom: Ten Years On, Saudi Arabia’s Textbook Still Promote Religious Violence.
Writing on NRO, the Center’s director, Nina Shea, provides examples of what the Saudis, as of the 10th anniversary of September 11, continue to teach their children. To take just two, of many:
This from a textbook for eight graders: “The apes are the people of the Sabbath, the Jews; and the swine are the infidels of the communion of Jesus, the Christians.”
Willful blindness about sharia is not good for you or your family’s health.
You’ve put the identical post on two different threads, troll. At least change your sentence structure. And quit defaming the memory of a hero for your cheap political purposes.
The leftists are poo-poo heads and the Muslims are doo-doo heads. But I’m a smarty head.
that was profound. Thanks for sharing, Junior
Me no likey likey Muslim and Commies, but me likey Glenn Beck. No likey reading, just me likey listening to scary scary stories. When the sky gonna fall, me no likey likey that.
What ,did the semi-literate trolls punch out for the day and turn over the keyboard to some crackheads and winos who were hanging out outside the library?
Bin Laden intentionally started the war with the US to destroy us as a nation. You have to ask yourself if this country is stronger now or before 9/11. If you think that we are weaker, then you realize that Bin Laden’s intentions are being realized.
We started off with three thoughtful posts, who let the loons out? There is a bumper sticker answer for every point, it is never right but at least once in a while funny. There are also too thought through answers which never lead to decisions. Though shalt not kill sounds good but when facing those who have been taught from birth that the only holy goal is to murder infidels, one may be at a disadvantage. I lean toward more nukes, fewer ambassadors. I know I may be wrong but I still want them to keep thinking that is my belief
“…nonsense that is passionately endorsed by a large segment of North American and European society, attesting to the leverage wielded by an adulterous media and a failed political and intellectual class upon a susceptible public…the academics, the intellectuals, the oligarchs, and the commissars have the neo-socialist, postmodern, university-indoctrinated, anti-American crowd with them. Together, they have put the democratic West at risk…”
If I hear you right, David, you are suggesting that the corruption has sunk into the American bone and marrow and we are long past band-aid solutions. Radical problems require radical solutions. Leftism and secular humanism in our institutions and our society must be torn out root and branch. Comes a time for pitchforks and torches.
HOW TO SOLVE AMERICA’S TERRORISM PROBLEM IN 5 EASY STEPS by Craig Biddle
Here is how America could solve her terrorism problem in 5 easy steps:
1. Stop sacrificing American soldiers to bring “freedom” to savages in Iraq. Pull our soldiers out of that hellhole, and let the savages have their civil war. ( Iraq is not and never was the main source of terrorism against America. Iran and Saudi Arabia are.)
2. Declare war on Iran.
3. Obliterate, from high altitude and long distance, all known Iranian military assets, all Iranian government buildings, all Iranian mosques and madrassahs, and the residences of all Iranian leaders, imams, clerics, and government officials. Hit these targets when they are most likely to be occupied (e.g., mosques during the day and residences at night). Do not send soldiers in on foot, except as necessary to identify targets or gather intelligence. We do not need to send soldiers in on foot to fight, and it would be immoral to do so. We have many big missiles, fast planes, and good bombs, and we should use these liberally while building bigger, faster, and better ones. (As to innocent non-Americans, such as Iranian children, who would be killed in such a campaign, they are not properly the concern of our government. Nor would their deaths be the fault of our government. Such deaths are always the fault of the force-initiating regime—and of those who in any way support or enable it—whose actions necessitate such retaliatory measures.)
4. Airdrop leaflets across the Middle East explaining: “From now on, this is how America will respond to any and all threats to her citizens or allies. We look forward to the time when you decide to civilize yourselves, stop taking religion seriously, renounce the initiation of physical force, recognize the principle of individual rights, establish rule of law, and join the free world. Until then, we will be watching you from way up in the sky—higher even than Allah, by means of technology He cannot fathom—and if we see anything that we so much as feel might conceivably pose even a remote threat either to America or to our allies, we will annihilate it and everything in its proximity without further warning.”
5. Notify the regime in Saudi Arabia that it got lucky and has the option of not being obliterated; that we are prepared instead to seize “its” oil fields and sell them to private industry, in part to pay for the campaign against Iran, and in part to return the fields to private industry where they belong; that it has 24 hours to turn the fields over to our agents; and that if it fails to comply or ignites the fields or does anything to thwart our program, its leaders, like those of Iran, will meet Allah sooner than later.
If we took these (or similar) measures, our terrorism problem would be solved. Sure, there would still be a few isolated instances of terrorism here and there in months and years to come; this much is inevitable given how long we have permitted the Islamists to plan and plot and establish cells. But, so long as we follow through as indicated above and immediately destroy anything that we think looks even remotely threatening, state sponsorship of terrorism against America would be over; the major threat to our lives would be gone.
Of course, we will not take such measures any time soon. Altruism will not let us. We will not take such measures until there is widespread understanding of the moral rightness of doing so—that is, until a substantial number of Americans understand that self-interest is moral and self-sacrifice is evil—and we are a long way from that. But such measures are morally correct—they are what we should do—and everyone who understands that they are should say so loudly and clearly. By placing such actions on the table for discussion, we create an opportunity to explain why they are morally correct—and that is what Americans (and westerners in general) most desperately need to learn.
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/how-to-solve-americas-terrorism-problem-in-5-easy-steps/
Edward Said, isn’t that a favorite of Obama .