All the wrong 9/11 lessons
All the wrong 9/11 lessons
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
“Know your enemy, name your enemy” is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders. Our military leaders refuse to expunge them from uniformed ranks until it’s too late (see: Fort Hood massacre). The j-word is discouraged in Obama intelligence circles, and the term “Islamic extremism” was removed from the U.S. national security strategy document last year.
Similarly, too many teachers refuse to show and tell who the perpetrators of 9/11 were and who their heirs are today. My own daughter was one year old when the Twin Towers collapsed, the Pentagon went up in flames and Shanksville, Pa., became hallowed ground for the brave passengers of United Flight 93. In second grade, her teachers read touchy-feely stories about peace and diversity to honor the 9/11 dead. They whitewashed Osama bin Laden, militant Islam and centuries-old jihad out of the curriculum. Apparently, the youngsters weren’t ready to learn even the most basic information about the evil masterminds of Islamic terrorism.
Mary Beth Hicks, author of the new book “Don’t Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid,” points to a recent review of 10 widely used textbooks in which the concepts of jihad and sharia were either watered down or absent. These childhood experts have determined that grade school is too early to delve into the specifics of the homicidal clash of Allah’s sharia-avenging soldiers with the freedom-loving Western world.
Yet, many of the same protectors of fragile elementary-school pupils can’t wait to teach them all the ins and outs of condoms, cross-dressers and crack addictions.
We pulled our daughter out of a cesspool of academic and moral relativism and found a reality-grounded, rigorous charter school where no-nonsense teachers refuse to sugarcoat inconvenient facts and history. Many of the students are children of soldiers and servicemen and women who — inspired by the heroes of 9/11 — have voluntarily deployed time and time again to kill the American Dream destroyers abroad before they kill us over here.
There’s no better way to hammer home the message that “freedom is not free” than to have your kids go to school with other kids whose dads and moms are gone for years at a time — missing births and birthday parties, recitals and soccer practice, Christmas pageants and Independence Day fireworks.
But instead of unfettered pride in our armed forces, social justice educators in high schools and colleges across the country indoctrinate American students into viewing our volunteer armed forces as victims, monsters and pawns in a leftist “social struggle.”
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Blame America-ism still permeates classrooms and the culture. A special 9/11 curriculum distributed in New Jersey schools advises teachers to “avoid graphic details or dramatizing the destruction” wrought by the 9/11 hijackers, and instead focus elementary school students’ attention on broadly defined “intolerance” and “hurtful words.”
No surprise: Jihadist utterances such as “Kill the Jews,” “Allahu Akbar” and “Behead all those who insult Islam” are not among the “hurtful words” studied.
Middle-schoolers are directed to “analyze diversity and prejudice in U.S. history.” And high-school students are taught “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” – pop-psychology claptrap used to excuse jihadists’ behavior based on their purported low self-esteem and oppressed status caused by “European colonialism.”
It is no wonder that a new poll released this week showed that Americans today “are generally more willing to believe that U.S. policies in the Middle East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon,” according to Reuters.
To make matters worse, we have an appeaser-in-chief who wrote shortly after the jihadist attacks a decade ago that the “essence of this tragedy” derives “from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others.” A “climate of poverty and ignorance” caused the attacks, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama preached. Never mind the Ivy League and Oxford educations, the oil wealth and the middle-class status of legions of al-Qaida plotters and operatives.
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us no matter how much we try to appease them.
The post-9/11 problem isn’t whether we’ll forget. The problem is: Will we ever learn?
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*Always remember to never forget this as well:
**The truth hurts, but political correctness kills; The powers that be seem intent on the killing to continue; I’ll stick with the Beck’s and Malkin’s of the world, for the truth shall indeed, set you free.
**We are dealing with a 7th century invented religion of death cult savages; Islam is incompatible with western culture; We are already, at present, at war with fundamental Islam across the globe; Their one and only prophet was a pedophile, a rapist, a mass murderer, a slave master, and through his words he commands more of the same; I reject this completely, and follow the one and only Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.
Or better yet, will they ever learn. If Jihadi’s never change their ways, this will be a long war indeed. The don’t appear to be getting the message. They think they are winning in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Democrat leaders like Harry Reid, and Joe Biden told them so.
I like that. It captures the essence perfectly. “Moderate” Muslims around the world claim they don’t support terrorism and violent jihad but to be a real Muslim following the teachings of Muhammed, you must be struggling your whole life to implement Sharia law and a global Islamic caliphate. There is only one way to do that and that is to convert non believers to Islam. There are only 3 total choices per Muhammed.
1. Convert non believers to Islam
2. Subjugate non believers (slaves)
3. Kill them
If you are truly a Muslim, you subscribe to this belief and goal. While you may interpret the Koran, Hadith and associated writings differently, you can’t pick and choose which parts to follow and the convert or die is written very plainly in the Koran.
A true Muslim has the same goal. They can’t reconcile that by claiming they don’t support terrorisim or violence. They probably just figure to convert or subjugate you. Death would be your choice, not theirs so they don’t suport violence but they will stand by silently while others do. The end goal is the same.
Bin-laden has more money and assests than 99% of Americans. I’d hardly call that impoverished.
He made it no secret that his beef with the US was because female foreign soldiers had to defend Saudi Arabia in the Gulf War.
Everything else is secondary.
Probably not. Maybe when all of our enemies have surrounded and beseiged us.
It’s been happening for the last 10,000 years of humanity. Civilizations die from within, not from outside forces. This time around, it will be worse. In the past, at least they had had the excuse of ignorance. But as for the Japan and the West—every think tank worth their salt can see it coming decacdes away.
Given the Islamist immigration, anti-capitalist youth movements and the rise of Nazi nationalism in North Africa and Europe, were I commander in chief, I’d be making long-term defense deals with Canada, Ireland, Portugal, Greenland, Mexico, Brazil and Iceland against a backlash from the EU in the coming decades.
We even have problems with refugee crime rates in Jamestown, ND. To say nothing of disappearing Somalis in Minnesota and Ohio and their DNA fragments being found in the horn of Africa at the center of bomb craters. Even in Sioux Falls, a nun had her windown stoned, presumably by Muslims or peacenik lib activsts, for showing a public screening of Iranium.
Even right-wing radio doesn’t seem to get the upcoming demographic change. Sometimes I wonder if Mark Steyn, Jason Lewis and Tom Sullivan are the people on the air who even have a clue what that is.
Given that most blow-hards who whine and complain about all the immigration in the USA, Australia, Japan, Canada and Europe are the very same people who are divorced/married multiple times with one kid—or just want to screw around and party all their life— and say we better not touch Medicare or social security because the clueless, aging baby boomers and even some senile WWII vets will get mad and not vote for their favorite people, well, you have to wonder why the TEA PARTY even bothers.
If we are so stuck up and arrogant, then we deserve to fail and fail BIG.
The only people who seem to talk about birth rates or even criticize the American people about their entitlements (this includes rural conservatives and the US military) are true blue libertarians and people like me who don’t give a rip if they bring an awkward atmosphere to the Thanksgiving Day dinner table or to the PTA or school board meeting.
And what happens when someone dares tells the truth, like Rick Perry did during the debate when he called social security a ponzi scheme?
He gets beat down by the left, of course, and all the compassionate, big-government conservatives. You know, the same morons who brought us into this place.
It continues to amaze me at how so many on the right, left and center don’t understand the simple idea that if you don’t replace your population, your way of life and economic system—along with all the entitlements—go bye-bye.
But of course that means living what used to be a normal life. As in settling down and having a family. That’s how its done. Not by shoving off responsibility to married gays or immigrants to pick up the slack and some of whom think free-market capitalism and liberty are shams.
Telling people to just grow up isn’t enough anymore.
An excerpt in this article ticks me off.
A Muslim muscian, and other religions are represented, but not Christians. The people of this nation need to get on their knees and pray. Dear Father, please show those who don’t believe that You and Your son Jesus are real. Please help them see that true freedom only comes from following you. Amen.
Michelle,
Have to say this is the best article I’ve ever read on your site – thanks for expressing the truth in such a wonderful way!
Just after 9/11 it was common to see a lot of American flags flying; don’t know what happened to them all but I would encourage everyone reading this that if they own a flag to fly it each and every day! Ours has never come down, and even if some Islamic extremist takes it down it will be put it right back up!
Thank you also to any service men and women that may be reading this! It’s because of YOU and your sacrifice that we don’t have rampant 9/11 evil on American soil!
God bless America!
Well, sure, but all religions say silly things like that.
For instance, Jesus told us to:
1. Convert nonbelievers to Christianity (to follow him).
See? See Islam and Christianity are pretty much just the same with only some minor differences that aren’t really important, like killing people who don’t submit.
It ticks me off as well to see the kow-towing to religions that do not comprise the majority of our countrymen’s faiths.
I would like to see what the mainline denominations are.
Perhaps ‘Christ‘ is indeed welcome at the service, but not ‘JEEEEEE-uh-zus’. Something subdued.
Wow. No, Christianity does not say that. Islam doesn’t just say it, they do it.
If you knew anything about either religion ….
Christianity doesn’t say you should try to bring people to Christ?
The Taliban burn music stores and cut off the heads of the owners. Muslim Musician is like Salmon Rushdie. Watch your neck.
Roland is showing that while most religions try to convert non believers, they don’t kill them if they refuse to convert or subjugate themselves. At least not nowadays. That is not only a fundamental difference, its a glaring difference.
You were referring to convert, enslave, or kill. Christianity does not do that.
I was reading you were equating them. Missed the sarcasm tag.
Reread what I wrote. T-Bone got it.
I was pointing how the moral equivalency, multi-culti cultists use superficial similarities to claim religions are all ‘just the same.’
The only thing on the planet I despise more than the Islam death cult is the moral relativism, cultural suicide cult of the multi-cultis.
Though I often use sarcasm, I rarely use the tag. It seems to me to take away some of the bite of the sarcasm.
Now you know …. I’m an ‘extreme’ anti-islamophile.
Concerned mom and happyscrapper were discussing profiling a while ago. Thought I’d add to their comments.
I’ve worked in jails in my career and early on, found that I could not trust anybody of any age, any sex, any Nationality, to not be the smuggler of contraband into the facility.I’ve removed cash, drugs, small weapons, notes, porn and untold other things from infants diapers, old ladies handbags, women’s bras (with female officers doing the work)and even food and liquor. When someone really wants to smuggle something, they will go to extremes to find a way to do it.
The Israeli model is truly the best, but they have a small fraction of the people to have to worry about in their airports, compared to us. Nobody wants to wait for hours to get through the gate and we cannot afford tens of thousands more TSA people to manage it in a reasonable time period, in all of our major airports, let alone the smaller airports.
Our answer has to be a combination of profiling and highly trained observers among our existing TSA staff, which is the direction we should be heading, if we put a realist in the White House in 2013.
Otherwise, maybe not!
Or the best solution. Fly naked.
I haven’t posted in a long while … please note the graphic used for this story is copyrighted. Did you get permission to use this image? Do you always steal others work?
The sarcasm comment was for me. To really understand the ROP is come to that extreme. It is frustrating when people apologize for it.
Accused, tried, and convicted in one shot. What’s the sentence ____ ?
If you are asking the question about permission, that implies you do not know the answer. To then make accusations of theft is not really appropriate if you don’t know if permission was obtained or not.
Very strange and not exactly a shining example of the civil discourse that Obama advocates. Or perhaps this is an example of the type of discourse Obama approves.
It’s right there behind your goblet and leg of mutton.
Uhhh T-Bone have ya got anybody in mind for that naked flying?
On a serious note. B minor.
I fly some and I’ve been pulled aside for the pat down everytime but once. Old white and not very tall, but I do fall into the category of being a veteran so maybe that’s what it is.
Well, maybe they need to pass out some robes for some people. For the common good and all.
And maybe they could add a hot tub on every plane.
Or we could tatoo every Muslim with a number on their forehead so we would know who they are. I am thinking 91101 or 666.
I personally don’t see a problem with flying naked, for myself…you understand. But, I gotta say, there ARE some people you just don’t wanna see nekid. I refuse to let any of Ineptitano’s henchmen touch me…I’d rather be zapped in the machine than have a TSA Agent feeling me up. I wore my vet hat to the airport and ended up having my carry-on thoroughly searched, my lotion and toothpaste absconded, and my ID checked 5 times.
Hmmmmm.
Not really sure what elementary school children should learn. I am certainly uncomfortable with whitewashing the truth. However, there are lines to be drawn.
The science of how babies are born. I am uncomfortable with educating elementary school children about the exact process.
Ever hear Rush Limbaugh’s conversation about Thanksgiving? Absolutely true, though I suspect it would be too deep for a second grader.
Should elementary school age children learn about the Holocaust in detail? Should elementary school children learn about and study the Federalist Papers that led to and provied the foundation for the Constitution?
Could be that tolerence is the wrong lesson, but going into detail about Islam, Jihadism, etc. might also be too deep for elementary school children.
I’d like the truth to be taught. I’d like it to be age appropriate. For every issue.
Absolutely, there are lessons to be taught and learned. Absolutely, sugar coating should be avoided.
The exitensial question is when?
I guess nobody ever tried to mention the truth, that World War II was not finished. We may have annihilated all the Nazis in Germany, but we didn’t kill all the Hitlerlites in the Middle east.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816232/posts
It would suck to be live in NYC right now. Today at lunch I caught the dragnet they have laid around the city. It’s at a stand still.
I’LL NEVER FORGET !!!
My bars and stars will never come down… EVER !!!
Vigilance, insists that I keep a few Potbelly Pigs next to the trebuchet just in case.
zyzzyg: Not that it matters so much, coming from me, but that’s really the best thing I’ve heard you say here.
That is the question when do you choose to teach the importance of the Constitution, the Founders, Federalist Papers,et al.
Pictures are great showing the Founding Fathers, and telling simply that they came up with the ideas for our country. Keep it simple I suppose.
Explain the flag the colors etc. They won’t remember much but they will have been exposed.
A difficult question but an important one.
College demands 9/11 tribute include flags from other countries — or face cancellation
The divisive developments surrounding planned 9/11 commemoratives continue to disappoint. Administrators at Marietta College in Ohio, for example, created a controversy over one student’s planned display of 2,977 American flags — one for each person who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Blaze reports:
When Snow visited the student life office, administrators told her they didn’t want a negative reaction from international students at the school — but Snow hadn’t received any complaints from international students, anyway.
At the very least, the PC police at Marietta College lack even a sense of the artistry of 2,977 flags of the same stars and stripes, the aesthetics of uniformity. Sheerly as a display, 2,977 U.S. flags make a far more striking statement than would a mixture of flags.
But at the most, Marietta’s administrators miss the poignancy of the post-9/11 patriotism that flourished across the country — and the poignancy of the opportunity to recall that period of a national consciousness, a renewed awareness that such a person as an “American” does, in fact, exist — and stands, as ever, for the ideals enshrined in our founding documents (the equality of persons before the law, inalienable rights, a government which derives its power from the consent of the governed, etc.) and for the practices historically embodied in our culture, including the capitalistic practices that led to our profound prosperity. It’s also to miss that America has always existed as an invitation to those who want to try freedom over the high-priced security of a nanny state or dictatorship — and that its flag is internationally recognized as a symbol of that freedom. To place flags in such a way as to count citizens of other countries among Americans is not to diminish their citizenship in their home countries but rather to express that they fell on the side of America in a visible, tangible, horrific clash between the Islamist terrorist’s worldview and the American’s worldview.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/09/college-demands-911-tribute-include-flags-from-other-countries-or-face-cancellation/
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Marietta College Cabinet
Jean Scott
President
740-376-4701
scottj@marietta.edu
jean.scott@marietta.edu
Office: Irvine
Degrees: A.B. (Westhampton College, University of Richmond), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Great story, GL.
I hesitate to contact the University in question since I see that the president has a Ph.D. from Harvard.
Harvard Ph.D.’s do not listen to mere mortals.
Not until we remember that Islam has been at war with the West since it was founded and will remain at war with us until we submit. The Koran commands it.
There is no moderate Islam. Read the Koran for yourself. Unless you can get muslims to repudiate Mo-ham-head and his evil book, there can be no peace.
You forgot your battlecry…
BACON AKBAR !!!
Saw a guy on Fox News yesterday talking about how we should “know our enemy” and then going on with the usual platitudes about “muslim extremists” and so on. He sounded pretty aware of the subject until he commented that the reason we were attacked on 9/11 was because we were over there.
No, jackobama, the reason we were attacked was because we exist. We don’t submit to islam. We aren’t subject to sharia. We are a free people.
We actually do need to be honest about islam. and saying that we were attacked on 9/11 because we were/are over there isn’t honest and will only serve to get more people killed over here.
Bloomberg has banned God and his agents from his ceremony and it will be impossible to derive any comfort, relief or closure from the slab of cold concrete he will use to memorialize the 9/ll murders.
God bless those who have died and their suffering families.
Good story. No surprise such imbecility comes out of yet another academic institution; the indoctrination grounds for our American youth. The amazing thing about the “offended” in all cases of liberal nonsense of this sort, is that they wouldn’t even dream of being offended until some liberal idiot complains that it’s offensive. Then the entitlement mentality kicks in: hey how dare they do that and offend me! I’m entitled to not be offended by anybody at any time for any reason”. It is part of the crippling mental disorder of liberals.
So should we kowtow to the sensibilities of international students? Excuse me, but are they not guests in this Country? If they are offended by a patriotic display, then why are they here? My response would be, “take your sensibilities, pack them in your luggage, stick it all up your ***, and leave immediately. Until then, you are a guest in the US, so STFU while we honor our brave and our dead”.
Bloomberg is your typical liberal. Hiding behind profound principles, without an iota of understanding what those principles mean: in this case in his own words: “separation of church and state”. That issue is apples and oranges to the clergy at the memorial service issue. But given that liberals are simply incapable of analyzing of distinguising, he tries to put a square peg in a round hole, and sound wise and smart. All he does is offend the vast majority of people that want religious figures at this memorial because they believe in God, and God is part of the healing process. Instead he sounds like your typical liberal single digit IQ moron. So many libs are soulless, Godless people. Add this idiot to that list. Id love to see them exclude Bloomberg, and bring in Guiliani in his place. I guarantee that most would favor that.
There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution. We MUST stop letting them get away with saying that! It is actually the opposite! FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION is in there! Separation of Church and State is NOT! In case you hadn’t noticed…this really pisses me off!
Michelle. I must say I think this is the best lead story I have ever seen on your website. Amen and Amen. If only every American read this and it was repetitively taught in our schools. I’m sick of my hometown newspaper having front-page stories of local muslims celebrating rahmadam with their head scarfed women. Oh isn’t diversity wonderful and nice. NO it isn’t. Not when muslim women have either clitorectomies when they’re 12 years-old or have their vaginas sewn shut. (where are the American feminists??) Women aren’t allowed to sit in the front seat of an automobile. If you are suspected of being gay then you must be murdered. How about teaching reality in our schools!
There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution. We MUST stop letting them get away with saying that! It is actually the opposite! FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION is in there! Separation of Church and State is NOT! In case you hadn’t noticed…this really pisses me off!
There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution. We MUST stop letting them get away with saying that! It is actually the opposite! FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION is in there! Separation of Church and State is NOT! In case you hadn’t noticed…this really pisses me off!
Sorry for the double post. We seem to be having problems with posting again today. Too frustrating. I probably won’t bother any more until it is fixed.
Last week our family went through the 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian. It was somber. Attendants repeatedly warned visitors not to touch and to be quiet. Pieces of melted items and twisted steel were displayed on cloth covered tables. It prompted many questions. My girls did not remember what happened but sure knew what it meant when I told them this is why your brother went to Iraq, to war.
To ignore the source of all the destruction is intellectually dishonest. To exclude non main line denomination representatives from the NYC memorial service and from the National Cathedral service is incomprehensible. Evidently the blind way of political correctness is very exclusive, not inclusive as they would have the general populace believe.
Generally, there will be 2 results. A continuing loss of American liberties such as freedom of speech. Secondly, fear and hatred will be driven deep into the hearts and minds of people to fester and destory. Neither is a good thing for America regardless of ethnicity or religion.
sarcastic end to the post aside, the above is not true.
Perfect.
911 Remembrance – 911 Freedom Rally
Are you in New York City? Live Near New York City?
Join up with the 911 Freedom Rally hosted by Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.
Info on the rally:
http://resistance.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2600775%3ATopic%3A5462108&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
Ten Years Later: A Nation Remembers 9/11
(An AFA Special) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBGJptI-kww
September 11, 2001 is a day that will stand out in American history, a day that 3,000 Americans lost their lives. This Sunday is a reminder of the sorrow and grief for the tragedy that occurred ten years ago.
Please take time to watch 10 Years Later: A Nation Remembers 9/11, and be sure to forward it to your friends.
Christians are not supposed to help bring people to Christ?
I’ll bet I’m not the only one here who thinks seems odd, Spacey. Could you add a bit of explanation to your disagreement? Is your disagreement semantic (as in: what is it to “convert” someone)?
Drat. I hit submit when I meant to hit preview. I was going to add something more about hairsplitting about what Jesus specifically said to his followers.
Since the name “Christianity” didn’t exist before he was crucified, Jesus obviously couldn’t have explicitly told his followers to convert people to it, but he certainly could tell people it was important to follow him, and that you should care about your neighbors, so the implication that you should ‘make people aware’ of the message seems apparent.
when it comes to what Jesus said & did not say, it is only about, in your words, ‘hairsplitting’.
Thank you for the explanation, Spacey, if you truly regard it as such.
It sounds like you are arguing the meaning of the word ‘convert,’ not the meaning of anything Jesus said.
Sad … this morning the graphic disappeared. Now it is back without attribution, that is copyright infringement. Ms. Malkin, if you really care about right and wrong you will give attribution to the artist of the graphic. It isn’t hard to find information … the Washington Post did an article 5 or 6 years ago. You could even contact Arlington County Police who tracked down the artist to ASK if they could use the graphic as a fundraising tool for the families of September 11, 2001.
Actually would be a good story about honor and patriotism.
In “honor” of the moose limb terrorists who killed my countrymen, I’m eating a pork carnitas burrito. I plan on eating even more pig meat tomorrow on 9/11.
time to wrest our EDUCATION SYSTEM from the lying hands and jaws of the Dark Side( Lucifer’s Kids) – it will take awhile- it took them over 100 years to take it from us!
in the mean time- home-schooling – !!!
or conservative private or – as you say MM- charter schools are the answer-
Carol-CS
remember there are many,many saudi students attending universities in the us. unc had many, i know because my wife took an english course at uncc and almost all her classmates were saudi and i might also add, very rude
Christians are called to share the Good News of Jesus Christ, but as far as converting others, only the Lord can do that. We plant the seed, the Lord does the rest. Sadly, some people are just too hard-hearted to heed the Lord’s call.
Elementary school. It’s never too early to teach the truth.
Yeah, I think all those people can be profiled as part of a single group. They are all visiting friends/family/lovers in jail.
I understand that. I hope you understand that people who are not already bible thumping Christians regard what you call “share the Good News of Jesus Christ” as attempting to convert them.
The point of my original comment on this matter was that, in terms of the philosophies involved, Christian conversion is not about coercion, and Islamic conversion is awash in coercion, and that is a critically important philosophical difference between Christianity and Islam that the multicultis, our elites, the MSM, and so on, all blindly ignore.
Nonbelievers and Hindus and Buddhists who are not multicultis or some other brand of blithering idiots can all understand and agree with what I said without having to convert to Christianity to understand and agree with it.
If I’d said, “Christians don’t try to convert anybody,” the entire point would be lost on anyone but bible thumping Christians, since they would see that part of it as being obviously not true.
Language is about communication. When your group decides to use words in a different way than everyone else uses it, your communication with everyone else will suffer.
None are so blind as those who WILL NOT SEE!