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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The Left hates the America we grew up in as much as the Jihadists do. They have more kinship with the Jihadists than their own countrymen.
That is the Post 9/11 lesson.
I am lucky enough to live in an area where public schools still function as they did when I was a kid as opposed to a liberal boot camp. My oldest has watched the footage, the movies and made the visits- Central PA is a close road trip to both Ground Zero and Shanksville. All of these have made her cry (as well as myself and Mr. Law) but she would no sooner avoid the facts than she would stop breathing. The little one will get the same education when she is old enough to understand. The scary thing is that when the 12 year old looks at all of these different sites and facts, she wonders out loud why her cousins and long-distance friends don’t know the same stuff she does. And why “all this same stuff keeps happening here by people who all look the same.” My Muslim friends who invited us to a post-Ramadan celebration shared my daughter’s concern…even they don’t understand how and why this government of a country they fled to can be so hamstrung as to ignore the facts that have been staring them down for the last decade.
BINGO!!
As I’ve said for years, our domestic enemies are arguably an even greater threat to us than our foreign enemies.
I wrote something similar the other day, after seeing what they’re doing in Washington DC schools, from the Mayor’s website
http://dc.gov/DC/Mayor/About+the+Mayor/News+Room/District+Commemorates+10th+Anniversary+of+September+11th
I remember on the first anniversary, when we still lived in Marin County, the schools were doing something similar, including saying bin Laden was “suspected” of being behind the attacks. So glad we’ve moved from there, now that my son is school age.
Nothing that a good ‘Crusade’ can’t fix. Now where did I put my sword and tabbard?
If you teach them the liberal politically correct mindless garbage while they are young they will grow up to be willing slaves to the system.
Get rid of God and Government becomes your Master
A local community newspaper runs a page called Kid Scoop (www.kidscoop.com). The recent edition, “Remember September 11, 2001), describes the events as simple hijackings… no mention of terrorism, no mention of radical Muslims.
It also advocates “heroic” exercises for kids: deliver lunch to an elderly neighbor, volunteer as a sports coach, do gardening for church or school, donate canned food to a food bank. How the hell are these acts “heroic”? How do these acts involve courage, self-sacrifice, exceptional valor? It’s nothing but sanitized, liberal pablum.
The federal government has no business in the local schools in the United States. Education is a local and state function. Why the do the feds keep ranting about teachers, schools,content,buildings,etc. in our schools? It is to brainwash them into their socialist agenda and political correctness, In the process they have ruined the quality of education and dumbed down the students, They show up wanting a job, sporting degrees in black history, women’s studies,phony little degrees from community colleges,etc.They are almost illiterate and worthless as employees, yet they are brainwashed to the lies of the politically correct. If I had children in school today,I would never consider sending them to the public schools.The Democrats try every way possible to keep their corrupt hands in the public schools to train future voters.The so called push to diversity and equity has lowered the scholastic level to the lowest common denominator rather than elevate the standards. Sitting idly and passively in a brand new federally built and controlled school will no more educate the student than sitting in a nice garage will turn you into a new car.
My daughter’s school will have a hard time trying to foist the liberal talking points onto their students this year — at least in ONE class anyway. One of my daughter’s classmates is a foster child who lost her mom in WTC 1 and her father in WTC 2.
Hard to argue with that reality when it sits, in the form of a beautiful 12 yr old girl, right in front of you every day.
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Excellent article. Comrade Obama’s statement that “A fundamental lack of empathy”–caused by 1400 years of Islamic Jihadi attacks–not by any actions of their victims–is the money statement.
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Too bad the Good Comrade and his Ilk think that our country’s actions caused these problems. And to tell the truth–the 9/11/2001 attacks have damaged the U.S.A. less in most ways than The Messiah’s actions have. Except for the body count.
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Never forget–give the Jihadis their passports to Hell at every opportunity. Osama Bin Ladin’s death can’t bring back one victim. And it can’t repair the losses to 10,000 victims family members. Remember the Arab “street” doing the high fives on seeing the carnage on their cell phones. They just can’t wait to bring it on again–with nukes next time.
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John Bibb
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Isn’t that the truth!! Hear hear.
I think Michael Savage was the first to state that liberalism was a mental disorder. I think that is so true. In liberals there seems to be a combination of gratuitous contrariness, arrogance (they put themselves above God, IF they even believe in God), lack of an ability to analyze the different “shades” of an issue (leading me to state that most libs have a puddle deep intellect), and stubborn refusal to see the nature of mankind the way it is, not the way they want it to be (delusional in other words).
Facebook is packed FULL of Jihadi scum bags and they naturally hate the United States Constitution.
Very nice article and packed full of Truth!
I learned the intent of Islam while living in Saudi Arabia for six years. My children know.
When we moved back to the US in 1996 we tried to tell people that bin Laden was a real threat. No one wanted to hear it.
ROP. Peace in Arabic is submission to their god.
Those images are seared into my memory. Fair or unfair, when I hear all the statements about how the “peaceful Muslims” abhor terrorism and what happened on 9-11, I think of those images. That, combined with the deafening silence of the Arab street here in America, makes me wonder about how all Muslims really feel about that attack. I am not a bigoted person; never have been. But I will say that from my experience in the past ten years, I now tend to be very wary, instinctively, of any follower of Islam, and the Quoran, because I see them as following rules that are antithetical to every good thing that the Western world stands for.
I have a grand-nephew born a few years after 9/11. He’s 8 now, in 3rd grade, and based on some of the other crud I’ve heard his school spew, I’m sure they present a sugar-coated, antiseptic view of this, too–only I beat them to the punch.
A year ago around 9/11 he got interested in a 9/11 documentary I was watching one day and afterwards went off in search of all the 9/11 documentaries he could find and watched ‘em all. He watched part of Freedom Rising with me on FOX the other night and he’s looking forward to watching whatever’s on this weekend.
He loves watching The Clone Wars cartoons so he knows about the “good guys” and the “bad guys” but we’ve viewed online photos of battle scenes from Afghanistan and Iraq so he gets the reality of war–to the extent that an 8-year-old can. I intend to keep on “correcting” the leftist shpiel the education system spews and I always remind him not to believe everything he sees and hears (not even from me) but to check things out and make up his own mind.
#14, the koran tells them to not be friends with infidels. Kill the unbelievers where ever you find them.
They believe the koran to be the final word of God and that pedophile mohammed his final prophet. When they say they believe in the peaceful parts of the koran but not the violent parts, they are lying. It’s either the word of God or it isn’t. Can’t be part word of God. And unlike the bible, which is a series of events in specific times and places, the koran is an instruction book for everyday living, and not open to reformation or modernization.
A muslim can’t be friends with infidels and profess to believe in the koran. Western civilization and islam are NOT compatible.
I have a grand-nephew born a few years after 9/11. He’s 8 now, in 3rd grade, and based on some of the other crud I’ve heard his school spew, I’m sure they present a sugar-coated, antiseptic view of this, too–only I beat them to the punch.
A year ago around 9/11 he got interested in a 9/11 documentary I was watching one day and afterwards went off in search of all the 9/11 documentaries he could find and watched ‘em all. He watched part of Freedom Rising with me on FOX the other
night and he’s looking forward to watching whatever’s on this weekend.
He loves watching The Clone Wars cartoons so he knows about the “good guys” and the “bad guys” but we’ve viewed online photos of battle scenes from Afghanistan and Iraq so he gets the reality of war–to the extent that an 8-year-old can. I intend to keep on “correcting” the leftist shpiel the education system spews and I always remind him not to believe everything he sees and hears (not even from me) but to check things out and make up his own mind.
Every year on the anniversary of 9/11 my entire family sits down and watches United 93.
I agree, Michelle, that we should teach the correct history surrounding 9/11. Those who committed the horrible acts are guilty as sin. Militant, jihadist Islam is real. But that doesn’t tell the entire story, does it? United States military interventionism in the Middle East is responsible for creating the anti-American atmosphere that prevails throughout much of the Middle East, going all the way back to the CIA-led overthrow of the Iranian government and installation of the puppet Shah. Remember when Osama bin Laden was a “freedom fighter” that received military aid from the United States when it was the Soviets who were the invaders? That’s been whitewashed out of most textbooks too. And what about supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, how the United States gave Hussein weapons — the same ones he ended up using on his own people during Persian Gulf I (an undeclared war). Speaking of Persian Gulf I, remember how the United States promised the people of Iraq they’d get military support from the United States if they rose up to overthrow Hussein? Remember how the United States abandoned them? Additionally, it’s no secret that the United States fought Persian Gulf I to protect its oil interests — the only reason the Saudi royal family is still in power today.
We cannot forget how the United States fostered the current situation over decades of interventionism (especially without declarations of war from Congress). No, I’m not a bleeding heart liberal who seeks to blame the United States for everything. Far from it. I’m just a humble teacher who wants people to learn the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so as not to repeat mistakes of the past. Our empire is unsustainable, crumbling, and far from what our Founders envisioned.
It will be nice when we get a president that plays for our side.
My sentiments exactly! I will never forget how angry I was when I saw them celebrating the deaths of all those people who just went to work one morning and were brutally murdered. None of those people deserved that. And anyone who is evil enough to celebrate the death of others is evil enough to be hated. Yes, I do hate them. I hate the cult of islam and all who follow it. Started by a pedophile who wrote a book advocating the murder of anyone who doesn’t believe as they do, this evil cult has, through the centuries, delivered death and horror everywhere. These are not good people. The best I can say about some of them is that they have been brainwashed and never had a chance to become decent human beings. The children were destroyed as soon as they were old enough to be indoctrinated. OUR children have also been indoctrinated by another idology, just as insideous and just as dangerous.
What we can do…
1. Take out the trash at the WH and in Congress.
2. Eliminate the Dept. of Education, then allow school choice.
3. Teach our children in the home and stop letting strangers tell them what is true and what isn’t.
4. Profile the Arabs and make sure they aren’t plotting to kill us. AND, stop letting any more of them in to this country.
5. Stop with the political correctness crap already! Tell it like it is! We have NO chance to get our country back unless we get the truth out there.
6. Round up the socialists who are trying to destroy this country, jail them for Treason, and throw away the key.
There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim – that should be everyone’s starting point.
As the saying goes…True that.
Liberals won the battle when they took over our schools.
Here’s what MA Gov Deval Patrick thinks about 9/11:
Unreal.
You can’t teach that oh no, but the Dem’s can run ads like this one against Bob Turner in NY.
I hope that at the equivalent of 8:46 a.m. EDT in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, U.S. Forces have a ten minute duration “Mad Minute” directed at every known or suspected target we can find.
Let them know why we are there.
100% spot on.
CC – I think you would do well to look at the “entire story” yourself. Jihad pre-date the US and any international affairs.
History of Jihad
Another History of Jihad
All of those work for me. The only way we get to 2-5 is if we succeed on #1. #6 is a delightful thought, just wont happen.
I will bet that no-nonsense cops in NY are doing some serious profiling this weekend. I’m pretty sure they won’t be frisking babies and grandmothers in wheelchairs.
A hideous, racist, awful display of…..common sense.
Spectre doesn’t need 10 minutes.
Hooah.
Neither does the “grid square removal service” (also known as MLRS)
Absolutely correct. Its a death cult. In covering the anniversary of 9/11, our local LSM paper has been made a point of doing a compassionate human interest series on islam and published interviews with local muslims who “just want to get along” with everyone.
Yeah, get along until islam is strong enough to impose sharia law and put dhimis in their proper place.
Here is a wonderful memorial that is in Israel. Thank you Israel for doing this. God bless America and Israel. The US and Israel are the two main targets the rop type are going after to see to it we are off the face of the earth and kill as many of us as they can.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/209284.php
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Its only bound to get worse as Islam is working to create a new African and Middle East Empire, as we’re seeing in Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc, and as islam continues to grow by population growth in Europe and North America.
There will be worse to come.
I guess he could use this to explain why the violent crime index in Massachusetts keeps climbing upwards.
Well, I agree with that.
It was a failure of the humans in our leadership to understand the existential threat that Islam poses to Western Civilization.
The history of the US and Islam is alot longer than the last 100 years Constitional Conservative. You know that.
That is false. These are the two quotes the George HW Bush stated to the Iraqi people:
On February 15, 1991, President of the United States George H. W. Bush announced on the Voice of America radio saying:
“There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations’ resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations.”
At no time did we promise support, though many Kurds believed that their would be support and it is my personal belief that we should have intervened on behalf of the Kurds.
That is false the weapons used on his own people consisted of Russian and Chinnese made T-72 and T-64 tanks as well as Klashikov rifles. As for the Chemical weapons that were used, they were developed by Saddam and unleashed on the Kurds by a group known as the People’s Mujahdeen Of Iran (PMOI) a terrorist group that has been in Iraq since the 90′s (long before we ever went there) and that we captured in Iraq in 2003 (roughly 3500 members of this group which my unit was in charge of guarding).
As for Bin Laden, yes he waged war as our proxy against the Soviets. We armed them with shoulder fired Stinger missles to take down their gunships. The problem was we left when the Soviets fled which left a power vacuum. The CIA warned of this, but Congress decided it was not worth the time or money to help stablize the country (the same mistake George W. Bush was trying to avoid making).
As for our problems beginning with Islamic Extremists in the 70′s with Iran and being due to our policies, once again you are flat out wrong. Ever hear of the Barbary Coast pirates? They were Muslim extremists that we dealt with way back in the early 1800′s when Thomas Jefferson went after them for piracy using the Marines (which is where the part of the Marine Corps song about The “shores of Tripoli” comes from).
Before you form an opinion on history it is always best to check your sources and know the facts.
The ignorance of Islam in the western world is astonishing – right up there with “global warming and climate change”. This ignorance will eventually lead to another global war in the future because of the complaceny displayed by liberal/progressives worldwide. It is so reminiscent of the 1930′s when Europe ignored and placated a certain German leader. Unfortunately many lives will be sacrificed until the cancer is immobilized.
That’s pretty bad, but look at CA…they are hosting a 9/11 conspiracy movie festival this weekend.
ours did that too with how eid al fitr coincided with the Sept.11 remembrances etc, and how one dude was afraid to wear his traditional costume etc.
Let me be the first to say, um, I don’t give a f#ck.
Great analysis of current popular attitudes towards jihadism Michelle. I find this all very disturbing and think of the famous quote “Those who choose to forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them”. This popular mentality is easy to espouse and teach when one has no personal experience being victimized by jihadism directly or indirectly but I would bet my next paycheck that these fools brainwashing our youth with their politically correct propaganda would be singing a different tune if they had lost a loved one to a radical mooslim terrorist, and probably even more so if they were to lose a limb or limbs in an IED attack.
Your excellent article makes me question why we allow our state and federal governments to set educational agendas in the first place….
Excellent column. As noted, the Left does hate American (and Christianity) as much as the jihadists do. There is also among the left a refusal to confront evil. Instead, they pretend everything is simply misunderstanding between cultures. Utter nonsense
If only spacey would run for office.
*sigh*
Its still a continuing failure of our leadership. It refuses to understand that islam will soon be more than just threatening.
The only problem with that is…radicalized U.S. citizens who look like Norwegians, Asians, Indians, and yes, grandmothers! If we profile to the exclusion of other safeguards, we will be toast. I’m sure they are aware of that. I’m just saying, evil can come in many forms, including innocent-looking, good-looking, non-muslims. Remember that Bundy guy! And Tim McVeigh.
The left considers those conservatives on the right to be one “evil” it is most willing to confront. Real evil, not so much.
Great post, Michelle.
This is why that new 9/11 coloring book from some small publisher in St. Louis is so awesome…it tells you the unvarnished truth and it includes a fun illustration of a SEAL shooting at Bin Laden as he’s cowering behind his wife. Buy ‘em for the kids!
The reason why the left wants you to think puppies and sunshine instead of the appropriate reaction of say, rage, is that they 1) sympathize with the other and not with their “own” and 2) they want you to forget not only the jubiliant Palestinians but also the jubilant leftists who crowed about the “chickens coming home…to rooost” and assorted schadenfreude directed at ordinary working Americans crushed or burned to death.
No pledges to serve my fellow man from me. I saw the black plumes of smoke coming from the Pentagon and felt the terror of not knowing what the hell was happening or what was going to happen next. I remember the godawful headache that wouldn’t go away for three days. I remember the monstrosity of the t.v. images from New York and seeing the big empty sky over lower Manhattan during the summer of 2002 instead of the looming towers that had always been there. And oh yes, the jubilant Palestinians and cheering Arabs.
Just heard the “Unlce Omar” was let out of jail and no one is saying anything (as to his whereabouts, if he posted bond, whether or not they are still seeking his deportation, etc).
So, do you know any radicalized Norwegians, Asians, Indians, and grandmothers?
Bundy was a serial killer. McVeigh was not Islamic and so was not ‘radicalized’.
Progressive don’t care for Muslims so much as they loathe Western Civilization. Muslims are simply one of the mascotized victim-constituencies of western European and American geopolitical influence. 9/11 is a precarious subject for progressives, who are for the most part still afraid to acknowledge openly that they agreed with Reverend Wright on 9/11 all along.
The progressive 9/11 program is to passively blame the victims’ political and cultural milieu, while actively rationalizing that of the murderers. Expanding on General Casey’s now-infamous remarks after Fort Hood, while 9/11 was a tragedy, it would be an even greater tragedy if the common understanding of Muslim victimization within the context of America’s historic geopolitical guilt suffered as a result.
Well said.
You totally missed my point. I merely said that evil, radicalized ideologists can come in many forms. There will be more and more average American citizens who are brainwashed by the mooslum garbage. I don’t know how they do it, but it happens to vulnerable people. And they can look like ANYONE, not just arab.
I totally get the point. I understand you buying into the fear and thereby supporting the anti-profiling supporters, i.e. Muslims. That is where that idea comes from.
Truesoldier has it right. Good job of making history clear for those that are unaware of it. Anyone who believes we can hide from Islamic Jihad is deluding themselves. No matter what we do, Islamists will always be a threat. One of the greatest internal threats that is under the radar, is what’s happening to convert our angry, hostile, anti-establishment prison inmates to Islam.
They are going to be a continuous threat as long as they live, if they have bought in to true Islamism and Jihad.
The education issues mentioned here are only the tip of the iceberg. Indoctrination via the text books in all our schools has been going on for decades. Back in 1988 I was asked by a local school Principal to serve on a text book review committee with three others, by the school Principal. We were provided four books each and asked to rate them and make a recommendation for purchase.
The four of us on the committee were all well educated professionals. We had a week to read them. We all came to the same conclusion after reading them. All were slanted toward political correctness and socialism, some more than others.
All of them left out, or just footnoted major points in American History. All of them diminished the roles of great caucasian Americans and amplified the roles of Black people.
We had to pick the least offensive, as those were the text books the District Superintendant and School Board chose as options. They were cast in stone for that school year. We had “discussions” with the school board and changed things the next year.
Word to the wise….pay attention to what is happening in your schools. Take nothing for granted. Our schools have built-in bias now, that results in a brainwashed population of youngsters.
Had one of your kids come home from school yet and tell you what to believe, or how to live your life, or what they believe you do that’s wrong?
Indeed, we all saw it as it unfolded. That’s what they should be teaching in schools…watch the footage as it was happening (remember watching the news & seeing the 2nd plane fly into the tower before our very eyes?)again and again. Play it in our classrooms so that the children can see how it felt that day.
Remember the film released after the concentration camps were liberated after WWII?
Wow! You obviously don’t know me. I was giving a common sense opinion. And you DID miss my point. I am NOT saying we shouldn’t profile. Just don’t ignore other things. You have insulted my intelligence.
Minimizing 9-11 minimizes more than you think. Years ago I heard in my lot clearing circles that teachers (NYC) are depreciating D-Day (and the “need for war”) by stating as many Americans died in 9-11 as did on D-Day but far more do of famine as though but are casual figures and unremarkable tragedies. I ask you, how many college kids even know what D-Day was??
James Greenidge
Queens NY
So far I can’t detect any watering down of the 9/11 attacks here in Hawaii public schools.
They are still on the “Hawaii was paradise on earth until the white man came and made us wear clothes, stole our land, and gave us all tuberculosis and smallpox” kick.
The turmoil in the Middle East is the result of the Ottoman Empire alliance with Germany during WWI.
Let’s not forget Barack Obama’s infamous column that he wrote for a liberal Chicago newspaper only days after 9/11/2011. Obama wrote that Americans must try to understand the frustrations and anger that Muslims feel and we must think about how we have angered a small number of Muslims to respond so angrily to our behavior. It was a disgraceful piece of work. In the 2008 campaign, no rivals of Obama dared to mention the infamous column out of fear of how the New York Times editorial board would respond. McCain was so cowed by the New York Times editorial board that he would only say cliches like : “Barack Obama loves this country”. Obama loves his own image of the United States, a country which appeases Hugo Chavez, Danny Ortega and Bashar Assad. It was only about two months ago that both Obama and Hillary Clinton referred to Bashar Assad as a “reformer.”
Long ago I learned a fundamental truth: People don’t all want to get along.
They don’t hate us because of who we are, they hate us because of who we are NOT. We are not THEM, so that means we must either be converted to THEM or be eradicated. They don’t just hate America and the west, they hate Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as every single person who doesn’t subscribe to their radical worldview.
Have you seen this view of 9/11?
Astronaut in space during attacks shares unique footage of 9/11
I was hoping insult your fear. Yes. There are other people being converted to Islam. The best recruiting grounds for this is in the prisons.
I have lived in SA and know how the total mindset is developed that would cause someone to blow themselves up.
So I can still ask: do you know any radicalized Norwegians, Asians, Indians, and grandmothers?
+1000
So, what do the leftists say the U.S. was doing to provoke the islamist pirates of the 1700′s into attacking our trade ships?
Well then, you failed. You only succeeded in insulting my intelligence and pissing me off. I have no more fear than anyone else on these blogs. Also… whatever gave you the idea I would be against profiling?
Not yet.
This is why we homeschool.
When I was in school, I kind of thought homeschoolers were crazy. Maybe they were back then, but the crazier the system gets and the more intense the leftists get, the more I’m glad we homeschool.
Didn’t say you were against profiling. However, you are using the arguement used by those very radicals to not do profiling and bought in by the TSA to justify groping everybody.
Interesting. Today, Turkey, losing confidence in its relations with Europe and feeling nostalgic about its lost empire and losing that collapsed in the aftermath of WW I is evidently taking steps on re-establishing it.
Some of its neighbors, such as Greece, have noted its actions and are just a bit uneasy.
Seems around the world, other nations are feeling just as nostalgic for lost empires, making neighbors nervous and everyone scrambling to create new alliances as insurance against future aggression.
In the wake of the USA’s losing prestige and influence in the world, and other nations not viewing us as reliable enough to hold other powers in check, the future is not looking so good. Our current WH occupant has been less than helpful.
I had my adorable little kindergartener come home and explain how we needed to conserve water. She was very adamant about how fresh water could run out if we left the faucets on too long, etc.
I used it as an opportunity to explain to her how we have a well and septic tank, so any water we “waste” goes right back into the ground about 75 feet from where we took it.
We will POLITICALLY CORRECT ourselves right into the GRAVE!!!
That’s a potentially misleading poll result. I, for one, might have answered that poll question the same way: I do not doubt that U.S. policies in the Middle East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks. But that doesn’t mean I think that it follows logically that our policies in the Middle East were wrong, or that our policies in the Middle East excuse or justify the attacks.
Even so, regardless of our policies in the Middle East, the attacks were perpetrated by radical Muslims who have a hatred for Western ideals. It doesn’t matter what our policies in the Middle East are, they still want to kill us, and without any kind of rational reason.
I remember a line by James Garner in one of my favorite old programs, “Rockford Files”: “People kill because they don’t like your zip code!”
I have news for you Peggy, you still are. They’re building a victory mosque at Ground Zero and you and your fellow New Yorkers are lying down in the fetal position and rolling over every time they kick you. GET UP!@! GET UP and fight back! Take it from a “friend” – you’re still crazy and need help, but we’re out here willing to help – but you have to try and get up….
O.K. So what you are saying to me is that we should profile ONLY, and ignore the possibility that the radicals might, just MIGHT use someone who doesn’t look Arab to sneak past security?
Doesn’t it make more sense to profile, but carefully watch everyone else who may look suspicious? I’m NOT talking about children. But a granny could just be made to look like a helpless granny and actually be a terrorist. Is that so far-fetched? If you think so, then you are a fool, and that is just the kind of attitude the terrorists are hoping for.
My initial post was making exactly that point. But somehow, it was made into something I never intended. If you misunderstood my point, I apologize. I will try to be clearer in the future.
I’m sure my comment is going to stir up a hornet’s nest, but here it is.
There are many people who claim to be Christians that are pro-choice and support same-sex marriage, despite what the Bible says. Isn’t it also possible for those claiming to be Muslim to have a different interpretation of the Koran than the radical Muslims?
I have read several of Joel C. Rosenberg’s non-fiction books (Epicenter and Inside the Revolution). He talks of Muslim “reformers” who believe Islam is the answer but jihad is not the way. Both are excellent books.
I am not trying to be “politically correct,” but I don’t think we’re being realistic when we believe all Muslims want to kill us. As an example, not all union members are violent. My brother is part of a union, but he definitely does not agree with using intimidation and violence to get your way. Just something to consider.
The key word there, ConcernedMom is “claim”. The Bible is very clear on those two issues. You can’t pick and choose what you want to believe of God’s Word. Is it open to interpretation? Yes. But some things are pretty clear. I think you could put right-to-life in that category.
10 years later and we have this disgusting dribble going on. The libs have made a total mess of it all. The rebuilding at ground zero has taken too long. The service there will be a joke. The fact that anyone would support a mosque there is pathetic. Sucking up to the enemy will not make anyone safe. We are being made to look foolish. 9/11 was an act of war!
Islam needs a reformation. Until it has one, it can never be perceived as a religion of peace, The fact that all muslims don’t kill other people doesn’t change the call to violence spelled out in the koran. CAIR thinks that we need to move on. NOPE! No moving on until killing infidels stops and muslims face the truth about what their religion is and they chose to change it.
I agree with your statement, happyscrapper, yet I still think there could be Muslims who do not completely agree with the Koran.
rambler said:
So true.
Heretical muslims don’t stop islam/jihadists from murdering.
I would tend to agree with that. And in fact, maybe it is possible to save some of them. If they realize that much of their “holy” book is crap, maybe they will wake up and realize they are being lied to and have been brainwashed into a cult.
Had we profiled Arab Moslems 10 years ago, that might be a valid argument. But, so long as we’re profiling everybody, and looking away from obviously Arabic Moslem people, they don’t have to worry about sneaking some Norwegian in.
And how are they going to get a sympathetic Norwegian? How are they going to get a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian to suicide bomb for them?
Only by converting him to Islam, or indoctrinating him in sympathy to Moslems. Which is what we are doing in our very own schools.
And they’re winning anyway. We are infringing upon fundamental liberties of Americans protected by our Constitution, for the sake of not hurting filthy Moslems who don’t belong in our country anyway. There are other places whose social philosophy is compatible with Islam. Move there, not here.
We can’t be all things to all people. We have to decide who we are and what we are. Socialism and Islam are both incompatible with the society we’ve built here over the past quarter millennium. Sad, but true. It’s hubris to think we could create a society that anyone with any social philosophy could live together in peace, when some social philosophies are at war with the world due to their own intolerance, not ours.
I think we are in agreement. Just avoid the pitfall that everybody is a terrorist. Disguises are another issue, which is why the Iraeli interrogation method is much more effective.
Nor is suicide terrorism an innovation: such operations are a feature of Islamic history: John Paul Jones encountered suicide attacks by Muslim Turks in 1788!
“…for it was the intention of the Turks to attack us and board us, and if we had been only three versts further the attempt would have been made on the 16th [June 1788] (before the vessel of the Captain Pacha ran aground in advancing before the wind with all his forces to attack us,), God only knows what would have been the result…The Turks had a very large force, and we have been informed by our prisoners that they were resolved to destroy us, even by burning themselves, (in setting fire to their own vessels after having grappled with ours.) [note added by Jones: Before their departure from Constantinople, they swore by the beard of the Sultan to execute this horrible plan...if Providence had not caused its failure from two circumstances which no man could forsee."]
We evil Americans have been oppressing the poor, innocent Moslems who only want to live in peace, for at least 223 years!
Winston Churchill is also credited with the variation of George Santayana’s quote (“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.)
Don’t forget. Always remember. Don’t let anyone convince you to “move on” and let the past go. In this case, it is what will keep us alive.
Excellent! You asked and answered your own question. Good job.
Those damn liberals in Washington State.
I couldn’t count on you holding up your end of the argument
It just makes them a target for the haradcore Muslims. Malcom X was assasinated for this reason.
So long as the masses can continue to live off the sacrifices of others without any corresponding sense of responsibility, we as a nation will continue to have a largely forgetful nation. How many thousand lie in graves so that others may focus on the unimportant and trivial?
Yah. Like what Soulja Boy says. Or a tweet by Katy Perry.
How very ILMC of you.
Anddddd….we have a winner!
The only difference between a ‘moderate’ and a radical Muslim is the method used to obtain the same goal.