FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS REMEMBERS….READ THEM ALL
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Gadi Adelman
Yes, somehow, the Muslims are always the “victims” now; it probably would be a case where they scream “Islamophobia” such as in the recent case at the Playland Park in NY over a safety rule that prevented Muslim women from going on some of the rides while wearing their religious head scarves. Hello? Do we need to draw you a picture of what can happen if your head scarf gets hung up while on a ride such as a roller coaster? Read more here.
Alex Alexiev
As we’ll undoubtedly be reminded by what calls itself the mainstream media, it has been ten years and with Osama bin Laden dead and the ghastly deeds of a rightwing Norwegian psychopath fresh in our collective memory, it is easy to imagine 9/11 as a now distant, one-off event whose relevance to our present is fading away. It might be understandable, but it is a wrong and perilous temptation. Read more here.
John Bernard
If America wants to know what a real memorial looks like we need not look further back than the few short years following a similar event which occurred on December 7th 1941. That generation had absolutely no problem naming their enemy or delivering them a mortal blow. The devastation that was rained downed on Germany and Japan in answer to the events of that day, were a grand manifestation of the righteous anger, the resolve and the moral courage of not only a focused nation, but true, leadership. Read more here.
James Jay Carafano
The successes in the war on terror weren’t produced by any policies introduced by the current administration. Yes, the U.S. has turned back the tide of terror over the last decade. But this administration’s contribution to that progress is largely confined to areas where it has followed through with initiatives started by the previous administration—e.g., sticking it out in Afghanistan and Iraq, going after al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and continuing to detain and interrogate terrorists. Read more here.
Alan Caruba
The irony is that 9/11 reflects the long memories of many Islamists whose religion demands that all lands formerly conquered in the name of Islam be regained and that all people who follow a faith other than Islam be reduced to dhimmi, second-class citizens ruled by Muslims. The World Trade Center belonged to the world. They were my towers and your towers. They represented a world bound together in trade, a world that set a value on all manner of goods and commodities, a world in which jobs and wealth were being created. Read more here.
Stephen Cheney
We are all brothers,
But some kill the innocent
To null the pain within
Their own tortured souls. Read more here.
But some kill the innocent
To null the pain within
Their own tortured souls. Read more here.
Edward Cline
Everyone can remember the response of everyday, rank-and-file “moderate” Muslims: in Gaza, in Iran, in Cairo, in London, in Paris, in Indonesia, in Patterson, New Jersey, in Brooklyn, New York, in Dearborn, Michigan, celebrated, passed out candy, danced in the streets, and shouted their hatred for the U.S. Their spokesmen and leaders put on pious faces and published solemn-sounding regrets, but did not chastise their collects of celebrants. Read more here.
Patrick Dunleavy
The Commission stated; “the enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism. It is the threat posed by [those] who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.”Have we strayed from that focus by attempting to be “politically correct” or non-offensive to specific groups? Read more here.
Steve Emerson
In 2009, a would-be homegrown terrorist told followers they needed to fight to be good Muslims. It is because Muslims abandoned jihad, Daniel Patrick Boyd said in a recording captured by the FBI, that Muslim blood became cheap and infidels pushed them around. “The American troops even occupy the place of our two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. This isn’t some fantasy, this is a reality. They are there and they are helping the Jews be in our third holy site, Aqsa. That would be our deen [religion]. This was forbidden by the Prophet on his death bed, he forbid that they can be in Mecca and Medina and there they are.” Read more here.
Vito Esposito
The signs for a 9/11 style attack and who would terrorize America were there for years. In 1993 Al-Qaeda, led by Usama Bin Laden, bombed the World Trade Center in an attempt to bring down the symbol of Capitalism. In 1998, two US Embassies were brutally attacked; one in Nairobi, Kenya and one in Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam, 258 dead and 5,000 wounded. The USS Cole then attacked on October 12, 2000 in the Yemini Port of Aden – 17 U.S. Soldiers killed, 39 injured. Why did we not heed the warnings? Read more here.
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
These terror cults will eventually fizzle out, as we can see from historic precedents, provided we don’t give up first. Considering the nature of militant Islam’s war on the west, there has been surprisingly little “Islamophobia.” Muslims in the West aren’t persecuted; but they have been murdered in large numbers in Muslim countries by their own terrorists. Read more here.
Frank Gaffney
It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, our government is pursuing policies that can only encourage those who aspire to do us harm to redouble their efforts. Read more here.
Shari Goodman
A decade later they (Islamists) have succeeded far beyond most Americans’ imagination. In Dearborn, Michigan and Philadelphia Americans have been arrested for preaching the gospel on public sidewalks because it offends Muslim sensibilities. In Minneapolis, Somali taxi drivers refuse to transport anyone with a dog or alcohol because it too offends their Muslim sensibilities. Footbaths and prayer rooms have been installed at numerous American universities and airports to accommodate an increasing Muslim population. In Toronto, regular Islamic prayer led by an Imam is permitted within a public school and the cities of San Diego, Dallas, Dearborn, and New York have instituted recess time during the school day for Islamic prayer. Read more here.
Vin Ienco
Many have died and many are still dying from breathing the toxic cocktail that was in the air on 9/11 and in the days after that. The EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman announced to New Yorkers, shortly after the 911 attacks on the World Trade Towers, that “their air is safe to breathe”. Now, thousands of people are ill. Read more here.
Amil Imani
As Americans remember the tenth anniversary and horror of the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, life reminds us all how vulnerable we really are. On that day, the world we live in appeared an obscure and dull place, filled with pockets of disasters where men are easily the victims. Read more here.
Ruth King
Too often terrorists have been excused on the basis of “root causes” and presented as a victimized group with a legitimate grudge against the West. Israel’s leaders, in particular, with rare exceptions, failed to recognize the international Jihad movement toward a caliphate in the Middle East without an inch of room for Israel. Why were the previous threats and incidents of jihad ignored? Read more here.
Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D., Joan Jutta Lachkar, Ph.D.
The builders and organizers are claiming this will be a “cultural center (our emphasis added) to include a culinary school, gym and basketball court, swimming pool, a Sept. 11th memorial and contemplation space, and a mosque, intended to be run separately from Park 51 but open to and accessible to all members, religions, visitors and the New York community.” (Anne Barnard, August 1, 2011 Developers of Islamic Center Try a New Strategy.) This is the strategy of what is known as a hudna, the temporary cease fire to allow to regroup, reorganize, lay in waiting until they can turn the cultural center into the fourth holiest mosque in Islam, say ten years from now on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. Read more here.
Herbert London
“Like many other New Yorkers we asked ourselves what we could do to help. However, the National Guardians would not let us get anywhere near the World Trade Center site…” Read more here.
Michelle Malkin
“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. Read more here.
Dr. Robin B. McFee
But in spite of our best efforts at that moment in time – 9-11 happened. We can never go back and create a perfect past. The dead are gone. The buildings are gone. Our sense of inviolability gone. And of great concern, our sense of universal purpose is waning. We -the US and the West- are in a perilous time on civilization’s journey. Read more here.
John McClaughry
Despite President Bush’s fatuous protestations that “Islam is a religion of peace”, an awakened America came to learn that, in the words of author Serge Trifkovic, “Islam is the only major religion in human history with a developed doctrine, theology and legal system of mandatory violence against non-believers.” Read more here.
John Miller
Have we learned any lessons in ten years?To my mind this is the most damnably difficult question to answer, largely because political correctness and government policies loom large in the response. Furthermore to learn means heeding lessons and not repeating mistakes. Read more here.
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