Never Forget

Even as we reel from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, let us remember the date that changed our lives. Twenty-four years have passed, but it isn't over.

Prager U Video: What Happened on 9/11

Excerpt: 9/11 shocked America and changed the course of modern history. Everyone knows what happened on that day…right? The truth is, many young people don’t, but they need to. Please watch and listen.

What They STILL Won't Tell You About 9/11

Doc Washburn interviews Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and the Left Column:

 

Oh, yes! Where I was when I heard and watched what happened on 9/11, just as where I was when I heard the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, is seared into my memory.

NEVER FORGET!

Twenty-one years ago today. 

New York City:

Photo by Dr. Emil Chynn

Many more photos of Ground Zero HERE.

The Pentagon:

Photo from the Department of Defense

What did America learn that day?

What did the world learn that day?

Has the West learned the right lessons?

Have we moved on so far that we have forgotten those attacks?

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes (attributed to Mark Twain).

Please take a few moments to reflect on the terrorist attacks of 9/11: to honor those who lost their lives and to remember the many more who lost their beloveds:

Never Forget

For some of us, at least, the images and sounds of that day are seared into our memories. 

A few of us, at least, recognize that the soldiers of Allah in the name of Allah, according to the teachings of the Quran, committed those murders.

And a few of us, at least, also recognize that our enemies remain ready to attack again.  For example: Taliban Commander vows jihad against the whole world.

Perpetual Islamic "holy war" against the infidel (any non-Muslims).  Weep for the West.

Never Forget

Eighteen years ago today....


It will never be distant history for me.

For me, it is as yesterday.  And my anger still burns.

All those hours waiting to hear if two of my homeschool fathers were still alive. Phone services of all types were in a knot, and the wait seemed endless. Both of these men were unharmed, but one had a very close call: he was supposed to be in one of the Pentagon rooms directly hit that horrible morning. Thank God that he was called away to Capitol Hill a mere fifteen minutes before American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.

And who can forget watching live the collapse of the Twin Towers after being struck by American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175?

And there were those long minutes awaiting the location of United Airlines Flight 93. Thank God for the patriots aboard that flight.

Yes, eighteen years is a long time ago. 

But not for me.

And I will never buy into the whitewash of Islam.

9/11: Never Forget

Image credit: graphic by Stogie

Don't be a dhimmi! Never forget that Quran-thumping Muslims did — and do — all these things in the name of Allah.

The sounds and images from that Tuesday morning seventeen years ago are seared into my memory, and I have zero tolerance for the whitewash of Islam and the fear of offending Muslims.

Islam is as Islam does.

9/11: Never Forget

The flight paths of the 9/11 hijacked planes

Adagio For Strings, Op. 11, sound track from a recording conducted by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990):

From the YouTube blurb:

A slideshow tribute to the events of September 11, 2001. Focus is on people, their connection with the towers, past and present, and not simply a play by play of news footage. Communicating the full range of expression from terror to sacrifice, compassion, and sacrifice...as well as the ways in which people responded as friends, neighbors and as Americans. Set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, which was played at Ground Zero during the memorial service the same week as the tragedy.

Graphic by Stogie:

The Enemies of Western Civilization

1. Defense

August 1990: Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Inadvertently, some of his forces easily took over some territory of Saudi Arabia. Some thought that Hussein would eventually gobble up Arabia as well. The US formed the largest coalition since World War II to repel Hussein.

January 1991: Hussein's Iraq was firing Scud missiles into Saudi Arabia. Many missed their military targets and demolished civilian infrastructure instead. Many in Arabia feared that chemical weapons would be used against them by the madman in Baghdad. Civilians were provided with gas masks.

February 1991: The US air force and later the hundreds of thousands of ground troops liberated Kuwait and saved the Middle East -- especially the Arabs living in the land of Saud.

2. Gratitude

Late 1990s: Many shops in Saudi Arabia had small plastic donation boxes. I asked my dad about their purpose. He told me that the money went to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan. Arabs were freely supporting al-Qaeda.

September 2001: 19 Muslims inflict one of the deadliest assaults on American soil. Almost 3,000 are killed. Ordinary Muslims celebrate.

December 2001: My father worked in Saudi Aramco. I talked to him about the mood at his office right after 9/11. He told me that the Arabs were celebrating like they had won the Football World Cup. Every one was jubilant with one exception. There was one Arab who was not satisfied. My dad went up to him and inquired about his grief. He was looking at the photos and the videos of the collapsing Twin Towers. He said that the towers fell straight down. He was despondent because he hoped that they had fallen on their side. He wished that there had been more death and carnage.

Just a decade after the United States had saved these very people and their families from possible death, slavery and mutilation, they were cheering at, what at the time was thought, the annihilation of 10,000 innocent American civilians.

3. Eternal Enemy

There were reports of certain people celebrating around the US right after 9/11. I met these sorts of people at my university in Canada. I have had conversations with people who openly and proudly supported the Taliban. Wicked glee would be an appropriate term for their reaction to the slaughter of almost 3,000 Americans. What do all of them have in common? Islam.

Muslims are nourished on poison. They are told to hate the unbeliever, the infidel, the kafir. Such has been the case since the evil Muhammad inflicted his cult on the world. That Jew-murdering, slave-owning, paedophile is the role model for over a fifth of humanity. It would be a very confusing world if the Muslims weren't at war with us.

Islam is utterly incompatible with Western Civilization. One simply has to look at the rules and laws of Sunni Arabia and Shia Iran and compare them to the legal books of any Western country. The best thing we can do is to put as much distance as we can between us and them.

Ban Muslim immigration. Burn ISIS. Make it clear to any Islamic organization that even mildly instigates against us: you will be crushed.

4. The Enablers

Why is it that we haven't taken such simple steps to protect ourselves? Islam is the main enemy. But before we get to dealing with it, we have to face the internal foes. The main enablers: the universities, the mainstream media and the leftist politicians.

All of them have a favorite saying about Islam:

Obama thinks that we can absorb another terrorist attack. Obama handed the Islamic terrorist regime of Iran hundreds of millions of dollars. Infidels around the world will pay for that later. He glosses over the slaughter of Christians and imports hundreds of thousands of Muslims into America.

Hillary lets Americans die in Libya. She accepts millions of dollars from the Saudis. The hypocrisy can make one faint.

The very people who're supposed to defend the United States, defend its eternal enemy. They refuse to mention ISIS. They make it deeply unfashionable to call out the evil of Islam. Truth is hate speech.

The moral depravity is not limited to them. Dumb Jews want to be friends with Muslims. Homosexuals march in support of Islam. Feminists are totally cool with the garbage bag burqa.

It was not always so. We had leadership.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy [...] The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

All is not lost.

After the Brussels attack, the head of Poland's largest party announced that "after recent events connected with acts of terror, [Poland] will not accept refugees, because there is no mechanism that would ensure security."

Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, declared that "we do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see...."

Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia, announced that "Islam has no place in Slovakia."

The Czech Republic, which had in the past taken in a few thousand Muslim migrants, regrets even that, to judge by the remark of its President, Milos Zeman, this January, that "it is practically impossible to integrate Islam into Europe," and made clear that the Czechs will not be taking any more.

We are in another battle in the Longest War. As long as we tell the truth about Islam, unmask the enablers and support those who fight -- Trump, the Alt Right and the Nationalists -- we shall win.

(Originally posted at Isaac Schrödinger.)

Never Forget

The class entering high school this year will be the first high school class not to have any firsthand knowledge of 9/11/2001, when jihad came to America.

These students will have only textbook knowledge.

For these young people, taking off their shoes and being run through scanners at airports, and elsewhere, as well as constant monitoring by security cameras — and all the rest of a world altered for the worse by Islamic terrorism — seem normal and ho-hum.

They have never known a world without Islamic terrorism. They do not know the freedoms we once had.

Worse, they consider 9/11 as nothing more than a National Day of Service.

In my view, 9/11 should be a day of solemn remembrance.

Boiling the frog is winning the day right now. Too many are too busy with their electronic devices to care about the future of the ideals of freedom and democracy.

Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints looms large on this fifteenth anniversary of 9/11.

[The novel The Camp of the Saints is online HERE. Read it!]

Won't you feel sorry for the poor Muslims?

Muslim Girl on 9/11:

For many Muslim Americans, its memory is forever etched in our minds, because every day afterwards was a struggle to simultaneously and harmoniously be a practicing Muslim and an American citizen. In the minds of many, it seemed such an identity didn’t exist.

Yup. The real, perpetual, victims of 9/11: American Muslims.

The collection of memories and experiences shared here demonstrate the nuances and challenges of Muslim American women in a post-9/11 America from all over the United States. Every story is uniquely powerful. They will shock you, inspire you, and compel you to reflect on the social and political trajectory of our country.

I was expecting beatings, lynchings, shootings, beheadings, necklacings ... at least a few shivs! But, nothing.

Racisssss and Islamophobes of America: you weak.

All these people whose experiences are provided have left, or have never lived in, Islamic hells. They live in a Western society. They don't mention a single word of negativity to describe the evil responsible for 9/11. They do, however, mock America. They glorify Islam. They blather about intolerance but don't have the sense to realize that they are completely free to do so. According to them, they have been "oppressed" for 15 years.

Oddly enough, they still live here.

(Originally posted at Isaac Schrödinger.)

American Muslims Celebrating 9/11 - UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

MORE UPDATES HAVE BEEN ADDED AND THE POST HAS BEEN BUMPED TO THE TOP FOR NOW

You think Trump lied?

WCBS-TV Reported Muslims in Jersey City Held Pre-Planned 9/11 Celebration on Rooftop

From Kristinn Taylor:

WCBS-TV Reported Muslims in Jersey City Held Pre-Planned 9/11 Celebration on Rooftop 

Video from a September 16, 2001 news broadcast by New York City CBS affiliate WCBS-TV features long-term reporter Pablo Guzman talking about the federal government investigating a Jersey City apartment building over reports residents held a pre-planned rooftop celebration of the 9/11 attacks with binoculars and a model of the Twin Towers targeted by al Qaeda that day. 

The video was posted to YouTube on Monday by “Citizen Video”. (Note: the date of the broadcast is confirmed by the report of President Bush speaking to the nation after returning from Camp David, as also reported by CNN.) September 11 attack view Jersey City 

The 3:04 video of the newscast was filmed by a hand-held recorder pointed at a television screen showing the broadcast and is therefore a little shaky at times. Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come under relentless attack for his claim that he saw “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks. 

The media has taken extraordinary steps to deny that any celebrations at all took place, even though contemporaneous reports like this exist. Numerous people who lived and worked in northern New Jersey on September 11, 2001 have spoken out to state that they too witnessed Muslims publicly celebrating the attack. 

However in that era cellphone videos did not exist hence no videos of the celebrations have surface as of now. This report by WCBS mentions only a small number were reported seen celebrating. 

However the apartment building in Jersey City was notorious for being the home of the Muslims who tried to take down the World Trade Center towers in 1993 with a truck bomb. 

The report begins with Guzman talking about two Muslim men from Jersey City having been arrested on an Amtrak train in Texas after 9/11 and about investigators searching their apartment building in Jersey City on September 15. 

Guzman follows with the information about the ‘celebration’ at a nearby apartment building. 

“…There’s another apartment building (in Jersey City), one that an investigator told me, quote “is swarming with suspects.” 

Suspects whom I’m told were cheering on the roof when they saw the planes slam into the Trade Center. 

“Now police were called to the building by other neighbors and found eight men celebrating–six of them tenants in the building. The FBI and other terrorist task force agencies that arrived and the older investigators on the task force recall that they had been to this building before–eight years ago when the first World Trade Center attack led them to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whose Jersey City mosques lies between the two buildings getting attention today. 

“And the older investigators remembered that suspects who allegedly got convicted for the first Trade Center case– followers of Sheikh Rahman –lived in the building where the same eight men were celebrating the destruction that they saw from the roof. 

“Calling this a ‘hot address’ the task force investigators ordered everyone detained. They saw something else: a model of the Trade Center on the roof along with sets of binoculars. The kind of model used by an architect or engineer for a presentation an investigator told me. 

“They knew,” he said, “that the planes were going to hit and they wanted a ringside seat.” 

“Remember part of what motivates Osama bin Laden against the United States and his cult followers is that the United States put Sheikh Rahman in jail. Bin Laden has said that for that the U.S. must pay.” (Anchor interjection not transcribed.) … 

”The first investigators on the scene, the first police, and even the first FBI agents didn’t realize the scope of what happened. They thought maybe these guys put up a cheering fireworks display. When the other investigators saw the model, saw the binoculars and remembered that address and what it really meant to the first Trade Center bombing that’s when that’s when they said, ‘we’ve got to grab everybody.'” 

The WCBS report is similar to a report by The Washington Post from September 18, 2001. … 

”In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.”

Muslims celebrate 9/11 attack on WTC in Paterson NJ MTV-News 0:03 / 0:52

"In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and

holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river."--Washington Post, September 18, 2001

Rudy Giuliani on 9/11 celebrations ff 1:07 "...and we did have some celebrating, that is true. We had pockets of celebrations, some in Queens, some in Brooklyn, - 10, 12, 30, 40 ...we had one situation in which we had a candy store owned by a muslim family was celebrating that day, right near a housing development. Kids in the housing came in and beat them up. Both facts were corroborated as being true. They were celebrating that the towers had come down and some of the kids in the housing development got really upset about it and they came in and did a pretty good job of beating them up."

Dearbornistan Muslim Arab Students’ Sweatshirts Glorify 9/11

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Houston Press: City E-mail Endorses 9/11 Terrorism

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FrontPageMag: Celebrating 9/11 at the FBI

When linguist Sibel Dinez Edmonds showed up for her first day of work at the FBI, a week after the 9-11 attacks, she expected to find a somber atmosphere. Instead, she was offered cookies filled with dates from party bowls set out in the room where other Middle Eastern linguists with top-secret security clearance translate terror-related communications. 

She knew the dessert is customarily served in the Middle East at weddings, births and other celebrations, and asked what the happy occasion was. To her shock, she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event. 

Right in front of her supervisor, one translator cheered: 

"It's about time they got a taste of what they've been giving the Middle East."

Screen cap shows image of Obama but only need to watch first few seconds to see Chinese broadcast admitting Even some Chinese celebrated 9/11

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I live in Jersey and Trump is right: Muslims DID celebrate on 9/11 in NJ . . . we saw it! 

Donald Trump is telling the truth about Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on September 11, 2001. I drove with family members though Paterson, N.J. that morning, after the planes hit. 

It’s not the kind of thing you forget. 

We witnessed people in traditional Muslim garb dancing, jumping, shouting and celebrating like their team had won the Super Bowl, just as Trump said. 

“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down,” Trump said Saturday. 

“And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.” 

Trump has refused to back off of those comments. He told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday, “it did happen. I saw it.” 

Media outlets and politicians have been quick to call the Republican presidential front-runner a liar but the fact is it happened just like he said. 

I didn’t see thousands of Muslims celebrating but I absolutely saw a pocket, perhaps 100, jumping for joy at the sight of the smoke rising from where the Twin Towers used to be. 

The funny part of the media-made controversy is that until Trump recalled his experience on that day, these events were a commonly accepted fact by Jerseyans. 

Others in N.J. have spoken about witnessing these events. Suddenly we are all being called liars in order for Trump-haters to cast aspersions on him. 

Well, I defy anyone in the media to call me a liar to my face.

Muslims Celebrated the 9/11 Attacks

animated gif of Palestinians celebrating 9/11

Bonus:

NYPost: TRIO WHO CHEERED [Twin Towers] ATTACK FACE BOOT AS ILLEGAL ALIENS

Three men who celebrated as the Twin Towers crumbled are facing deportation, The Post has learned.

The men, described as illegal immigrants from the Middle East, were arrested Tuesday afternoon in a white Chevy van near the Meadowlands based on a tip from witnesses who saw them "cheering" and "jumping up and down" in Liberty State Park after the attack, a source said.

Witnesses took the plate number and the FBI sent out an alert to area cops, reading:

"Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack . . . Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion."

Port Authority cops nabbed the three as they drove along Route 3 in East Rutherford in the van, which had the words "Urban Moving Systems" painted on it.

UPDATE - 

FWIW, Curtis Sliwa (NYC Guardian Angels)and radio host beggers belief by retracting his video recorded comments of 9/11 celebrations and insisting the video was edited because he can only attest to a handful of celebrations. (insert eye roll here)

Strongly advise many copies of these reports be made and kept to resurrect as the msm continues to scrub history to support their false narrative...Here's another:

CBS also reported celebrations in Jersey City reported on "6th night" after 9/11 "as work continued at that crater and all that destruction" 

Fox's Eric Bolling says there were reports that muhammedans had prior knowledge of 9/11. 

NBC, Oct. 12th, A Chilling Tale On Oct. 11, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, an aggressive young reporter for The New York Journal News of Westchester County, N.Y., published an article that tracked the story to New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Shapiro identified a teacher who witnessed a freshman in her class saying the week prior to the World Trade Center attacks: “Do you see those two buildings? They won’t be standing there next week.” 

And another albeit with strange formatting - featuring the voice of Bernie Kerik (police commissioner at the time)- note, video/audio not in sync and does not show actual interviews...

OAN: NYC Officials support Trump's claim of domestic celebrations after 9/11 ff 1:17

"there were celebrations in Brooklyn, around Atlantic Avenue. ...in Queens, Paterson NJ, I think Jersey City as well."

ff 3:30 to hear Kerik continue:

"when you pick the domestic stuff that was going on and tie it into the national coverage, there were tens of thousands of people around the world celebrating and some of them were in NY and NJ."

And let's not forget the first sermon of 9/11 given by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ff 2:10 mark which illustrates an entire church celebrating his infamous 'chickens coming home to roost' sermon.

MORE:

DID NEW JERSEY MUSLIMS CELEBRATE 911?


New Jersey radio station 101.5 quotes some of these accounts here.

A sampling:
Tom Penicaro: “I worked for PSEG in Clifton on the Paterson boarder and I witnessed it firsthand. They were celebrating in the streets cheering and stomping on the flag. I am a Marine and I remember very very clearly because I was so pissed I wanted to engage them with a bat I had in my van.”

William Hugelmeyer: “I was working in the jail when the attacks occurred. Once it was clear it was a terrorist attack, we had inmates celebrating. This instantly caused a lockdown. As you could imagine, many other inmates and officers didn’t share their jubilation.”

John Pezzino: “They were in the streets banging on the cars trying to drive through the crowd in the street. The Muslims were shouting death to Americans and Allah is great other crap I didn’t understand. We were amused until a car with 3 young women mistakenly turned on to main st. The muslims were banging on their windows and screaming, thats when we came out of our car and pushed the muslims off their car helped them back out and get back to the Parkway.”

Walter Emiliantsev: “I lived in NJ at the time on Demott Ave., Clifton! When I tried to go to Paterson to my brother in laws shop, I usually took Main Ave. There were so many people dancing on Main, I couldn’t get through! I KNOW what I saw!”

Palestinians make up a large percentage of Paterson’s Muslim population, so much so that the neighborhood where the 9-11 celebration is alleged to have taken place is sometimes nicknamed “Little Ramallah.” Local businesses are often named for Palestinian landmarks, for example the Al-Quds restaurant, Al-Quds Halal meat and the Al-Quds bakery.

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Finally, we know that six of the 9-11 hijackers lived in Paterson, NJ, and they used the computers of a nearby campus in planning their attacks.”

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‘high five’ incident at the Ford plant on 9/11 Ford wins suit by former Arab muhammedan employee, Saleem Shariff. who cheered the 9/11 attacks and high-fived fellow Arab muhammedan employees on day of attacks, including khalid ali Alward, Abdul Mohamed, and Saleh Mohamed Omar


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New York Post in September of 2011, Fred Siegel wrote,

Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they received word of the murderous attack in New York and Washington. But Mayor Giuliani (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) rightly warned New Yorker-ers that is would be wrong to take their anger our on the city’s Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.

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“New Day” co-anchor Chris Cuomo also admitted, “Were people celebrating on 9/11? Yes.”

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Dr. Andy Bostom's tweet confirming NYPD Comm Kerik statements
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The following incident as described by none other than Dan Rather was reported in many news outlets including NYT, CNN and European news outlet BBC,, but those links cannot be retrieved at Internet archive (HTTP 302 response at crawl time). They were however discussed online here, at FreeRepublic on 9/13/2001 Here is the Letterman video segment:
Dan Rather on Letterman show ff 12:30
Dan Rather: "Some evil cannot be explained."
Letterman: "Are these people happy, are they joyous now, are they celebrating?"
Dan Rather: "Oh, absolutely, they are celebrating. There is one report, this has not been confirmed, there are several verifiable reports that there was a cell, one of these cells across the Hudson River and they got on the, this is in the report, I don't know this for a fact, that there's several witnesses that say this happened. They got on the roof of the building to look across. They knew what was going to happen. They were waiting for it to happen and when it happened, they celebrated. They jumped for joy to see this happen. This was a great triumph. It's inconceivable to you, but David, this is what we as a country have to understand. We're not dealing with the kind of thing we dealt with in any war we've fought before because we've never dealt with these kinds of hateful, to the core, evil people."

(I beg to differ. The US dealt with this evil and won the Barbary wars and gained free access to trade across the Mediterranean as a result.Unfortunately, due to the narrative "islam is a religion of peace" falsehood, such trade is in jeopardy yet again, today).

Blackfive: Muslims Celebrated The Sep 11 Attacks dated 9/10/2012

The politically correct version of the September 11 attacks holds that the Muslim world rejected such violence as un-Islamic and condemned the attacks. This is not true. The Muslim world celebrated the attacks.

In Germany, Muslims celebrated with rockets

Elisabetta Burba of the Wall St Journal documents the reaction in Beirut

The reaction in the Egyptian newspapers

A poll of Egyptians, reaction in Saudi Arabia,


From the suburbs of Washington, DC, a former tenant witnesses the reaction in the Skyline Towers, Pentagon-area apartments popular with Saudi diplomats and Muslim immigrants

MEMRI: Arab & Iranian reactions to 9/11 (43 minutes) 5 years later

Education Fail!

George Mason University is in Fairfax, Virginia, a few scant miles from one of the branches of the Islamic Saudi Academy, and is certainly not one of the easiest schools with regard to admission requirements.

GMU also partners with "the Arab nations."

Not a day goes by that people like Pastorius and Always On Watch and Epaminondas and WC and Avi Green And Pam Geller and Robert Spencer and Geert Wilders and myself and so many others don't think about these images

And thousands of others like them

They are not just seared into our mind

We've allowed ourselves to be branded with them

It wasn't fanatics that did this

It wasn't radicals that did this

ISLAM did this

And so many other stories and images we read and see every day these last 14 years

My God it doesn't seem that long

Not to us

To us it seems like yesterday

Like just yesterday when we thought there'd be no tomorrow

Images of beheadings and immolations and acid attacks and genital mutilations

Women and children sold into slavery

Sexual and otherwise

It isn't fanatics that do this

It isn't radicals that do this

ISLAM does this

Images we see and stories we read so often that, I'm almost ashamed to say, at times we seem almost inured to them

But we then write about them and bring you the stories and the pictures and the videos

Even though so many say not to.

There is no reason to.

I beg to differ  No, I DEMAND to differ

Too many people still don't believe. Still don't understand. Still don't get it.

ISLAM DOES THIS

We spend long hours writing and researching and screaming and preaching

Often neglecting our family and friends because we are caught up in the latest atrocities. Attacks. Threats. In trying to explain to people, until we're blue and out of breath. Driving loved ones crazy with our rants

If that sounds like me trumpeting myself and my counter jihadists, playing a martyr enslaved to the counter jihad

too bad

tough shit

SOMEONE has to do it.

Because too many have forgotten the final desperation and utter despair of a falling man

How they felt when they first heard two planes struck the towers

an explosion at the Pentagon

a plane was headed for Camp David

another to The Capitol

the sinking in their stomachs waiting for news of a missing loved one

the constricting of their throats with each new suspected threat

the dry mouth nervous twitch

trying to explain it to their kids

the long hours and days and weeks glued to the news for any and all information they could get

about what had happened

or what the pundits and pols and talking heads thought would happen next

about a possible attack on a bridge

or maybe a nuke or dirty bomb smuggled into a city

any day now

the sheer horror and terror they felt that day when confronted face to face by pure unadulterated unfettered black hearted evil

the pride they felt when a handful of people, 40 strangers to each other, chose to confront that pure unadulterated unfettered black hearted evil not face to face, but hand to hand

knowing nearly

to a certainty

that they would probably die

but in doing so others would live

SOMEONE has to do it because too many have chosen not to

have chosen to make apologies for it

have chosen to think it was an anomaly and get back to their busy little lives of soccer and little league and lattes and macchiatos and keeping up with the Caitlyn Kardashians

have chosen willful ignorance

have forgotten what it was like that day to all rally as Americans

forgotten

the astounding surprise that we were caught off guard

the anger that they dared do this TO US

the pain of 3,000 lost souls

the sorrow of their loved ones

the absolute fire for

not revenge

no, not mere revenge

but a reckoning

have forgotten that it was 14 years ago

or maybe just yesterday

when we all thought there would be no tomorrow

fanatics didn't bring us to this

radicals didn't bring us to this

ISLAM brought us to this

SOMEONE has to do it because no one else wants to

And so this post is a memorial to those who died that day

a tribute and thank you to the REAL WARRIORS in uniform who confront it hand to hand every day in faraway places

like Kabul and Kandahar and Maziri Sharif and Tora Bora

and the London or New York or Madrid subways

and to my brothers and sisters who sit alone in their family rooms and living rooms writing and researching and seeing absolutely the worst humanity has to offer

to make sure no one, no matter how willfully ignorant, ever again has to feel like there will be no tomorrow

I am proud of you

stand in awe of all of you

and am humbled to be counted among you

reminding people every day

of what happened yesterday

or maybe it was just 14 years ago

I returned,

and saw under the sun,

that the race is not to the swift,

nor the battle to the strong,

neither yet bread to the wise,

nor yet riches to men of understanding,

nor yet favour to men of skill;

but time and chance happeneth

to them all.

For man also knoweth not his time:

as the fishes that are taken in an evil net,
and as the birds that are caught in the snare;
so are the sons of men snared in an evil time,

when it falleth suddenly upon them.

The Boatlift Of 500,000 On 9/11

With a hat tip to Bunkerville:

It took 9 hours to rescue the 500,000 people trapped in lower Manhattan that day. It was the largest sea evacuation in history, larger than the 339,000 British and French soldiers rescued at Dunkirk in 1940.

Fourteen Years Later

Instead of this, except for the most cursory of mentions,

we have the 9/11 Good Deed Challenge, feel-good stuff allowing the vast majority of people in the West to neglect addressing the root cause of 9/11/01: ISLAM DOES THIS.

As a result of the deliberate distraction of the 9/11 Good Deed Challenge and of academia's circling the drain with Colleges brainwash students into believing 9/11 was our fault, we have this, already in the gates of Europe and in ours as well:

And the mindless Westerners chant, "Nothing to do with Islam!

George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

IMPORTANT UPDATES AT BOTTOM OF POST --- Chapel Hill Murder Victim’s Anti-Semitic, Anti-Zionist, Pro-Terrorist Tweets

Moderate Muslims

From Got News:

Editor’s note: We obviously don’t support the taking of any life but we also don’t support the lionization of the dead. 

While many of the obituaries of Dean Bhakarat have focused on his alleged charitable endeavors, we thought we’d give you a deeper dive. 

The official motive of the shooting of three Muslim-Americans in North Carolina was a dispute over a parking spot but the left-wing and Arab media are calling the killings a hate crime. 

We really have no idea what actually happened between the suspect and the three Muslim-Americans. 

It’s equally possible that Deah Barakat’s hatred of whites could have provoked the incident as Craig Stephen Hicks avowed dislike of religion. One of the Chapel Hill shooting victim’s tweets reveal anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionist views.  

Deah Barakat tweeted over 8,000 times. Some of them are about sports. Many of them are hateful.

He retweeted and backed 9-11 conspiracy theories and compared the treatment of the Palestinians to that of Jews during the Holocaust.

AND THIS:

GO READ THE REST.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Killer of 3 NC Muslim Students Was Hardcore Anti-Religion Atheist Progressive 

UPDATES ---

The women who were killed were the daughters of a man who was a leader in a mosque that had members arrested for planning to murder Marines: link

&amp ABOUT THEIR "CHARITY";

I've read numerous articles mentioning the charitable acts of the couple shot but none that mentioned exactly where their free services and free dental supplies came from or went to until this local article:

According to a page on YouCaring.com, a free online fundraising website, Barakat was one of the organizers of an effort to raise money to provide free dental care to students of the Salaam School in Turkey. Barakat and others were scheduled to travel to Turkey in the summer of 2015 to treat children who have become refugees due to the ongoing Syrian civil war.

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Shoebat says they were part of a MB front group [members of the Muslim Brotherhood associated MSA at Chapel Hill]

9/11/13 In Washington, D.C.

From the Washington Post (emphases mine):

9/11 anniversary: Prayers and discord mark D.C. area’s commemorations on sweltering day

Moments of silence, prayer and discord mingled with the roar of motorcycles, the echo of taps and a recording of Jimi Hendrix playing the national anthem on Wednesday as Washington marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

On a sweltering summer day, perspiring Muslims and Christians argued on the Mall, bands of flag-bearing bikers cruised the city, and President Obama told relatives of Sept. 11 victims that “our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been.”

As the commemorations unfolded, the flags around the Washington Monument flew at half-staff, stirring in the southerly breeze.

A former Marine, Tobiath Steinmetz, clad in biblical garb, carried a full-size wooden cross on the Mall.

[...]

On the Mall in Washington, before a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, a small group that included Muslim Americans bickered with a small group of Christian activists over the role and merits of Islam.

A phalanx of park police on motorcycles were on hand to keep the groups separated.

“We’re just regular, God-fearing, Bible-believing, patriotic, red-blooded Americans,” said Ruben Israel, 52, of Los Angeles, who spoke for a group carrying banners that read, “You Need Jesus” and “Repent of Your Wicked Heart of Unbelief.”

“I think every Christian should be offended that they want to have a rally on 9/11,” he said, referring to the Muslims. “We’re here to promote Jesus Christ as the answer to that bloody religion.”

Isa Hodge, 39, of the American Muslim Political Action Committee, said his group had a permit from the National Park Service for the rally.

“Since the day of 9/11, that horrible event that happened . . . there’s been a fear campaign that’s been promoted over the last 12 years to make the word ‘Muslim’ synonymous with ‘terrorist,’ ” he said.

“The rhetoric has been so deeply ingrained in the American citizen that we’re the problem, Muslims are the problem,” he added. “We, as Muslims . . . are for the Constitution, the preservation of the Constitution, and the freedoms and the civil liberties.”

Hodge and Israel got into a face-to-face dialogue, which seemed to go beyond the sentiments of the day.

Discussions were refereed by Capt. P.J. Beck of the U.S. Park Police.

“They just want to be here to evangelize what they’re going to do,” he said of Israel’s group. “They want to do what they want to do,” he said of Hodge’s group.

“We’re here to make sure it all happens,” he said.

Scholar Cornel West appeared for the Muslim rally.

“We need to keep the focus on priceless and precious human beings, no matter who they are,” he said. “They could be in Syria. They could be in Somalia. They could be in Tel Aviv. They could be on the West Bank.”

“They could be U.S. drones doing it,” he said. “They could be gangsters who did it 12 years ago.”

In the background, loudspeakers blared Vivaldi and Hendrix, and a woman shouted, “Blessed are the peacemakers!”

Bystanders carried placards protesting drone strikes and an attack on Syria.

Retired Episcopal bishop George E. Packard of New York, a former Army platoon leader in Vietnam, gave a blessing at the rally: “May we give to America back a certain kind of peaceful presence on this day.”

Packard said afterward that he had been among the clergy summoned to the ground-zero field morgue in New York 12 years ago.

“I stood with the Muslim chaplain, and the Jewish chaplain, and the Catholic chaplain,” he said. “And we would say prayers over the small body parts we’d find, and there was a kind of brotherhood there.”

He lamented that Wednesday’s remembrances were so “strident.”

Meanwhile, motorcyclists who had been denied a permit to parade downtown en masse instead rode about in smaller, colorful groups to commemorate the day and protest their permit denial.

Roger W. Snuffer of Somerset, Pa., had ridden to Washington on a pristine motorcycle decked out in an American-style flag with the number 93 in the blue canton, in honor of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville.

Snuffer said he was in the National Guard on Sept. 11, 2001.

“I actually had to go out to the site and recover pieces,” he said as he stood by his motorcycle on Constitution Avenue in a red, white and blue head bandanna. “So it means a lot to me about 9/11.”

“My opinion is, some of the people in the country have forgotten,” he said. “It’s something to remember and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Damn. I wish that I had had to work yesterday!

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