In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, practically every American understood and agreed with a powerful two-word sentiment that summed up the nation’s attitude during those traumatic days: “never forget.” Nine years later, it’s clear that great swathes of the populace have indeed forgotten and the leftist media’s coverage of the anniversary this weekend was symptomatic of the Left’s selective memory when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Oh sure, they remembered the victims of al-Qaeda’s barbarous attacks who fell in New York, Washington and Shanksville, but that’s the easy part. There’s nothing controversial or dangerous about mourning the murdered. It’s quite another thing to point out that the murderous ideology that put thousands of Americans in their graves nine years ago is as potent, as dangerous and as evil a force today as it was on that fateful fall morning in 2001. Yet, from the mainstream media’s coverage through President Obama’s remarks, leftists used the 9th anniversary of the attacks as another excuse to try to conceal Islam’s sharp talons beneath cloaks of respectability and even impotence.
Speaking at the Pentagon on Saturday, the president called the Muslim fundamentalists who carried out the attacks nine years ago “a sorry band of men” who had perverted their religion. “We will not give in to their hatred,” Obama said. “As Americans, we will not or ever be at war with Islam.” He called for tolerance of Muslims, seemingly alluding in part to the controversies surrounding the proposed Ground Zero mosque and Florida pastor Terry Jones’ aborted plans to burn copies of the Qur’an. He said that only through tolerance can we keep alive the legacy of the men and women who fell on 9/11.
The speech thus essentially became another other opportunity for Obama to soothe Muslim leaders across the globe, although why any Muslim should need reassurances about this administration’s conciliatory attitude towards the “religion of peace” is anyone’s guess. Citizens of this county, on the other hand, could be forgiven for taking another sort of message away after listening to the president’s remarks. The Obama administration will bend itself into rhetorical knots in order to separate the violent actions of individual Muslims from the political/religious ideology that motivates them. Yet Americans are supposed to assume responsibility for the actions of any fellow citizen that might somehow offend Muslims. In other words, according to the leader of the free world, acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam are mere anomalies that should in no way reflect upon Islam, but it’s our responsibility if hyper-sensitive Muslims are whipped into a frenzy by the mere prospect of an obscure preacher in Florida burning a few books.
But why worry about violent Islam at all any longer? Al-Qaeda and terrorist threats have been vastly overblown, right? That’s the remarkable view that Fareed Zakaria expressed in Newsweek in a bizarre September 4 column in which he asserted: “It’s clear we overreacted to 9/11.” Zakaria took his first steps into fantasyland with this lead paragraph:
“Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single major attack on high-value targets in the United States and Europe. While it has inspired a few much smaller attacks by local jihadis, it has been unable to execute a single one itself. Today, Al Qaeda’s best hope is to find a troubled young man who has been radicalized over the Internet, and teach him to stuff his underwear with explosives.”
Indeed, "Terrorists aren't ignoring the teachings of their religion, they're rather following them – to the letter." It is those who partially ignore these teachings who are called "moderates". Does this justify their immigration into Christian or secular countries?
Let's see. Say a Christian, or a Jew (or an atheist) wants to immigrate somewhere. Would it make any sense for him to move into a predominantly Islamic country and remain what he was – even if it were possible!? (Saudis would shred his Bible right in the airport).
Then why do Moslems move into predominantly Christian or secular countries with intention to remain Moslems? Who else would do it? True, before restoration of Israel also Jews ought to move into host countries, yet remained Jews. However, unlike Moslems, they had no other choice then (no 22 Jewish states anywher). More importantly, they willingly integrated and enriched the host nations rather than demanded the host to accommodate their faith, Sharia and "Jewish Caliphate" in the future.
Then why are "moderate" Moslems here at all?
Really well said. B. Gabriel's "Because They Hate" spells out the doubt about whether "moderate" Moslems really exist. Perry Archer
And the answer is obvious – they, like Christianity are committed to world wide spread of their religion; the difference is that Christians believe in persuasion; moslems believe in overtaking by having children, infiltrating, building mosques and eventually when they reach a plurality, enforcing Islamic law. There may be come westernized moslems who are here to avoid the nasty brutishness of their faith and the living conditions it fosters but the majority, I beieve, are here as an intentional growing presence.
If Moslems were here simply "to to avoid the nasty brutishness of their faith", would they persist in identifying themselves as Moslems further on? After all, people fleeing from Communists regimes do not become members of US Communist Party. (It is American "academics" who become).
Whichever Moslem-"lite" they are, they ought to be rather taken aback by perversions and promiscuity of the Western societies, and never even wish to get here.
Yet they do. Moreover, they persist in wearing the same Moslems garb, performing brutal clitorectomy, "honor" killing and all down the list… They are not here to rid of all their brutishness, but rather to spread it.
Not all of them perhaps are explicitly on proselytizing mission. At the beginning some just take advantages of the opportunity to enter (and get on the dole) never existed before (the 60s). However, as their mass grows, proselytizing and overpowering do take place in certain leaps well described in the literature.
The bigger the lie, the more believable it gets? It seems so in this day of Caliph Obamao.
My Left-wing brother once referred to Iraq and Afghanistan as "neo-colonialism". I was stunned. It was a classically Marxist analysis.
Where are the "colonists" I wondered? No Americans are settling over there. Hell, Chinese and French companies won the contracts to develop new Iraqi oil fields. The USA got ZILCH! Whether one agrees or disagrees with the wisdom of the interventions, describing them as neo-colonialism is hardly accurate.
Meanwhile, Muslim "settlers" (read: colonists?) in the West number close to twenty million…and that number is growing exponentially. They are NOT assimilating, but they ARE imposing their culture and values on the native populations.
Which is the more valid description of neo-colonialism? I think it's obvious….but certainly not to a Left-winger steeped in pseudo-Marxist thinking. For the record, I love my bro, but I despise his politics.
You are so right…that's why India is all white people now.
There seems to be some mental myopia around and about that divides the nation and the Modernist world between Left and Right, between conservatives and "progressives," and between nasty people and the nice. Well, looking at ones shoes might tell much about ones shoes, but it says little about the greater world. There are those neither Left not Right, those who don't fit the usual paradigms of policies and optics and commentaries: there are those who are — not as others.
Welcome, if you will, those who live in the mainstream's Twilight Zone. For those shadowy folks, nothing written, analysed, deciphered, and or decoded, deconstructed, or deemed worthy of discussion is of importance. Some folks just don't take the usual suspects seriously. Those would be ones seen at the edges of visions of shoes as "fringe." Dear reader, let me say that there develops in this world a feeling thing, a mass of emotion that defies the current normative descriptions of good and evil. "Just folk," we call them, and when they come into vision clearly, they will be suddenly seen and recognised as The People. It will be a shock to some, no doubt, who see the world only in that small circle surrounding their shoes.
Yes, within the blinding light of moonbeams, others will seem to be in twilight. Important people are speaking to each other about significant issues, and the sound of the cracking of seeds and the breaking of the earth is faint, the germination, as Zola so sweetly puts in, maybe far away and vaguely buried. Then, suddenly, one might find the earth broken asunder and a whole new world will have grown up over night. And where oh where did all that come from?
Not Left, not Right, not anything ones singular circle knows. Tis not of oneself we speak. It's that other reality few seem to notice, the twilight world all around. Listen. Hush thyself and hear it in the wind. Smell it in the air. Feel it on the skin. Something grows.
"It’s a problem we will never come to grips with until we all can face the fact the terrorists aren’t ignoring the teachings of their religion, they’re rather following them – to the letter."
BINGO! That is all that needs to be said. When the obamessiah and G. W. Bush state we are not at war with islam, they are practicing propaganda and political correctness, or in the case of the obamessiah, protecting his own religion.
That the left won't even read the Quran, yet talk about it like they know of what they speak, is nothing new. They are about propaganda, period.
I strongly believe that America's ugly crimes in the Muslim world, which are often justified in the name of Christianity, give a bad name for Christianity just as the ugly crimes committed by some nominally Muslim terrorists give a bad name for Islam.
In occupied Palestine, when a truly democratic election was organized a few years ago, and Hamas, a truly democratic Islamist movement, won the polls, the US abruptly turned its back to democracy and decided to impose sweeping and draconian sanctions on the occupied territories in order to thwart the newly- elected government simply because Israel and some dictatorial Arab regimes feared the consequences of a successful Islamic experiment.
"Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda City's deputy mayor initiated bonfire of missionary-distributed material, held next to a synagogue in town." http://www.haaretz.com/news/orthodox-jewish-youth…
America, and its ultimate controller, the tiny satanic Israel, may succeed in deceiving the peoples of the world, including their own people, but they won't deceive God.
"I strongly believe that America's ugly crimes in the Muslim world…"
Why do Marxists have to post their diatribes on right-wing channels, when they own virtually all the mainstream media outlets?
"In occupied Palestine,"
That would be "Arab-occupied Palestine," where the Arab settler-colonists illegally occupy lands belonging to the indigenous Palestinians, the Jews.
"when a truly democratic election was organized a few years ago,"
Like in the good ol' 1930s.
Belief in democracy as capable of moderating evil has been the West's undoing, from the 1930's to present-day Afghanistan and Iraq. It actually gives evil ideologies (Nazism and Islam) political power.
"a truly democratic Islamist movement,"
Winner of the 2010 Best Oxymoron Award.
"America, and its ultimate controller, the tiny satanic Israel,…"
Common Dreams is this way, Stormfront is that way. Thank you for your participation.
"a truly democratic election was organized a few years ago, and Hamas, a truly democratic Islamist movement, won the polls, the US abruptly turned its back to democracy and decided to impose sweeping and draconian sanctions on the occupied territories in order to thwart the newly- elected government "
Hamas is "truly democratic"? That would be why they killed or expelled all of Fatah then.
Hamas is a terrorist organisation. The mere fact that it got the backing of the Gazans does not obligate the US (or any Western Country) to recognise it, or trade with it etc.
The Gazans got what they voted for – a terrorist government. Liberal democracies responded rationally by boycotting it in accordance with their pronciples.
The implicit axiom in 2xmax"'s comment is that we should treat all democratically elected governments (no matter how inimical to our own – or the World's – interests) as our "bosom buddies". By like analogy all the Western states should have welcomed Hitler's Germany and never fought it.
Name a single act the US government has undertaken "in the name of Christianity". That is complete rubbish. Even when Bush misused the word "crusade" he got upbraided in a hurry and never made that mistake again.
The lie that America does anything in the name of Christianity must not be tolerated. I've heard the slander from too many left-leaning friends to put up with it any more.
As for New Testament burning by ultra-orthodox Jews, well OK. As a Christian, I don't like that at all. But don't expect me to riot or to expect my political leaders to threaten massive civil violence because of it. I also refuse to damn all Israelis as book-burners, as you seem to be implying.
Keep up the pressure!!! The Islamic "moderates" are apostates and heretics in the eyes of those Muslims who follow the Koran word for word!
The "Moderates" are those who have "hijacked their religion"… NOT the terrorists.
The Left and other appeasers are in effect… asking the Islamic "moderates" to continue to live their religious heresies and don't look back.
In the end, does the Left actually think the moderates will stand up and fight against the Fundamentalists?…. And we wonder why we never hear them denounce the violence
It's remarkable how such as Zakaria and everyone who peddles the notion that the threat of 'Al Queda' was 'overblown', forgets that there have been 16,000 Jihadist attacks by Islam just since 9/11. There are lists or the places and peoples and they are real places and real people, and the reason that nations have had to spend vast billions on 'security' for transportation, is due to the religion of pieces, and the reason that nations have had to bury peoples and body parts by the hundreds of thousands, and have to put up with the 'demands' for an end to 'Islamophobia' while the largest hatred in the world comes from muslims, and Islam across some 30 nations where attacks are to be understood as having nothing to do with Islam, or their Qur'an. I guess Mohammed sitting with his then 12 yo bride, Aisha, and enjoying the beheading of 800-900 men of Jewish belief, who refused to accept Allah and Mohammed as his prophet, as well as all the other subtle hints in the 'holy' book of Islam involving some 61-64% of the entire book, detailing what is to be done to and with 'kaffirs', infidels, as opposed to the rest of the books instructions for how to be a muslim of faith, are just small burps on the way to the religions 'holiness'.
That, and Mohamedd's declaring that Christians and Jews would no longer live in Arabia before he died was some of that astonishing 'beauty' that gives us the present day bill for 'security' that must be maintained by the rest of the 82% of humanity that aren't muslims.
Looking at the photo at the top of this article, most of the protesters in it were, nine years ago, more concerned with what toy they got in their happy meal and wouldn't have a clue of 9/11 and what it felt like for an average American to witness live. At which time, in certain areas, their childhood counterparts in the middle east were undergoing weapons and military training.
Yep, you're right. The fight of the future – hardened infidel-hating Jihadis who grew up with guns and explosives against pampered and airheaded politically-correct lazy Westerners who grew up with Barney toys and are overindulged on a diet of multicultutralist nonsense. Unfortunately it will be no contest. Civilizations come and go, and the vast majority of civilizations have been destroyed by the barbarian outside – and sometimes inside the gate. Ours will be no exception to that rule, until and unless we produce a generation like the World War II generation.
I am not a scholar in Christianity, yet 5:39 and 5:44 prescribe the personal behavior, not that of states (otherwise no Christian state withstood 2000 years). Moreover, 5:39 and 5:44 prescribe the behavior in a situation when resistance and protection of own life is already impossible.
Anyway, it is not prescription for national suicide.
Actually there were only two states that one could call a Christian Nation.
Ethiopia which was over run by the Muslims in 630 AD. Since then it has been in total poverty with a battle over it between Islam and Marxist (Secular/Athiest) Theology. And the United States which was founded on Judeo-Christian Theology. And the paralell is that the more this country turns from those roots as we have witness into a secular theology – the faster we will become like Ethiopia is today.
We should remember the alegorical liberalism that infects much of what the world calls the church is the same allegorical liberalism that sent nations into the dark ages around 450 AD. Allegorical Liberalism is anti Biblical Christianity. And that was noted to happen by Christ and the apostle Paul.
Didn't want to give a lecture on Biblical Christianity.
But you are right that there is a difference between what is expected of the individual and the state biblically.
And you are right about the Matthew 5:39 scripture. A slap in the face means we are not to get angry over insults. Self defense of the individual and the Nation is truly endorsed biblically.
You have to ask yourselves why a bunch of Marxist/Atheists would ride to the rescue of Islam. Well, I think it's because the Marxists believe Isam to be a religion of violence and chaos and they hoping to use that voilence and chaos in America to further undermine things. Don't ever believe their phony little signs "tolerance", because they have absolutely none for people who disagree with their agenda.
Islam is what the Marxists have been clamoring for ever since the fall of Communism in Russia in 1991: an active revolutionary force waging physical war against the hated West. In 1991 the Marxists feared they would be confined to intellectual (I use that word loosely) warfare, but then came the Islamic resurgence and provided them with the opportunity of revolutionary renewal.
Terrorism, tribalism, Islamic expansionism, imported desert warmongers, and their war against democracy, all rely on one single fact: Oil. Our dependence = their expansion. The only way to drain the swamp of petrodollars that is lapping up on Western shorelines is to first stop using it wastefully, and second, find alternatives. Anything that makes Americans pay more for oil will slow our use.
If we want our petrodollars brought back home, we will get terrorism and tribalism along with it. Arab petrodollars = tribal terrorism. Stop sending the $ there and we won't need it sent back. We need a "carbon tax" and a "terrorism tax" added to oil. We're already paying it, i.e. 9/11 & wars, but just haven't made the connection.
Remember the faces of the women in the picture. You may never see them again when Islam takes over and they have to hide under burqas.
A stern warning from President Obama against Pastor Terry Jones or anyone else who would dare to use his "free speech right" too freely !:
"You can't criticize a Muslim or his Bible or they will murder a Christian somewhere or yourself, or a member of your family or religion – so we should never do that, it is irresponsible and evil! Therefore, I will use the immense power of my office, the most powerful in the world, to embarrass you and publicly disgrace you, so that you will never be able to make big bucks again in this country – if you should exercise your so called "right to free expression" or, so called, "free-speech", to criticize in any way, the Muslim Bible called the Koran – or any Muslim who is putting forth the idea that Islam is one of the most peaceful and loving and generous religions on Earth! And I MEAN IT! But, you are free to go ahead and do it – go ahead and see what happens! (here Obama is using his Muslim trained tactic of Threatening Christians, Jews, and Pagans, with extreme punishment if they should rise to tell the truth about The Religion and Science of Revenge!
TO SPIRIT OF 1683
my friend if you believe yourpost is true, then i'm sorry you are so out of touch with the attitude of backwoods america. i grew up with people who can hit a running animal at 200 yards, if you think that all of america is a bunch of mcdonalds eating, dope smoking, don'tgiveadamns, then you are deadly mistaken.
you are evidently are not hearing or seeing the building storm that is coming. my ancestors rose up when the need was called and so shall i and many many more just like me. my greatgrandfather and my grandfather were the builders of this country, the living embodiment of the american way of life. if you think that we will just stand and watch it happen without raising a hand, you are indeed very badly mistaken.
the slow fuse has been ignited, the lantern has been hanged in the belfry arch of the north church tower, one if by land, two if by sea. those words have not been forgotten by all.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Amen, brother!
Hail to thee, fellow citizen!!!
While Obama is President, the US foreign policy will be tilted toward appeasement of radical Islamic regimes and a demand that WE THE PEOPLE tolerate Islam. We tolerate, ENOUGH ALREADY! What has all your consolatory overtures toward radical Islamic regimes gotten? Iran will get the bomb, which means that terrorists will have access to it. Then again, if they move against the Great Satan, you have already stated that a nuclear strike may not necessarily follow. Who the hell’s side are you on Mr. Obama?
But what about moderate Muslims taking care of or exposing the terrorists. They are amazingly silent. Are they sympatric or terrorized? We are suppose to tolerate a mosque at ground zero, but they should not have to understand the sensitivity of the issue???? They should not explain, why the mosque must be built here. They can violate, urinate in the Church of the Nativity, yet they go ballistic when someone threatens to tear up the Koran. WE THE PEOPLE are not the ones that need to get a grip. We are not the ones saying we want to spread Sharia Law across the world under a religious state called the Caliphate.
Leftists call the opposition bigots, racists. Do they really believe that radical Islam will not consume them as well? When they look at 9/11, many Leftists believe it was an inside job (truthers), or believe the US because of its capitalist exploitation, neo-colonialism got what it deserved. Does Obama believe this as well? It would explain many of his unexplained actions as president. I hope that he is not one of those spitting on the memory of 9/11. Truth be told, I think he is.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Sept. 11, 2010
"a date which will live in infamy"
can anyone give me a more appalling example of malpractice of Presidency.
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