Eleven years ago, nineteen fanatical Muslims turned hijacked
aircraft carrying hundreds of terrified passengers into missiles targeting
symbols of American economic might. Nearly 3000 innocents died horribly that
day, including hundreds of courageous, selfless first responders making a
superhuman effort to rescue their fellow citizens. And for years, when the
anniversary of that day rolls around, progressives
and their Islamic
allies have been rolling their eyes and urging Americans to “get over it.”
They’re weary of being bummed out by reminders of 9/11. They
wish we’d forgive and forget that it happened. Stop bringing it up and “harshing
their buzz.” Move on, move forward. Some of those people simply don’t grasp
that we must not forget because we are still at war with the enemy that
attacked us that morning; the rest are very much aware that we are still at war, and they want us to
forget because they are siding with
that enemy.
It may seem impossible for many to believe that that
morning could be forgotten – just as it once seemed impossible to believe
that our government could erase words like “jihad” and “Islamist” from our
national security lexicon, preventing us from even naming or describing the
enemy; or that our government could deem a terror attack on our own soil to be
“workplace
violence” and whitewash it of its Islamic motivation; or that an American
President could announce
that one of his duties was to “fight against negative stereotypes of Islam
wherever they appear”; or that he could proclaim us one of the world's largest
Muslim countries.
So September 7-9 are National Days of Prayer and
Remembrance. What about 9/11 itself? In a quiet, seemingly innocuous gesture
three years ago, President Obama designated 9/11
as “The National Day of Service and Remembrance.” But the “Remembrance”
part seems to be an afterthought, because the idea was to get Americans to “engage
in meaningful service to create
change... in four key areas”: education, health, energy/environment and
community renewal. None of those seems to have anything to do with
honoring 9/11, but that was the point: Muslim-American playwright Wajahat Ali
(and one of the writers behind the Soros-funded
“Fear,
Inc.” report that smeared anti-jihadists as Islamophobic bigots) wrote
in the Huffington Post at that time that “we are trying to move away
from focusing on 9/11 as a day of horror, and instead make it a day to recommit
ourselves to national service.”
Why? Because in order for Islamists and the radical
left to advance their agenda of dismantling American exceptionalism and
recasting America as the villain in our history books, they need
Americans to put 9/11 behind us, let the victims slip from our memories, ignore
that we are still at war with an enemy that danced in the streets to celebrate
the attacks, and turn a blind eye to the fact that our civilization is under
assault by a subversive stealth
jihad.
Americans can commit themselves to public service any or
every other day of the year; 9/11 should be reserved for solemn
remembrance and renewed commitment to preserving American security,
values and sovereignty. Greening your
neighborhood? What does “green” have to do with 9/11? Only
that it’s the
color of Islam. Education? Fine – educate yourself and your
children about 9/11 and the continuing threats of stealth jihad
and “creeping sharia.” Environment and community renewal? Great – beautify
your block by flying the Stars and Stripes on 9/11. It sends a simple
message to the enemy and their useful idiots that you believe that making
this day about installing fluorescent light bulbs trivializes the
memory of 9/11's victims, and that you will never let their deaths be
erased from history.
How do things stand on this 9/11, eleven years later? Among
other highlights, we captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed and a SEAL team took out bin Laden (no thanks to the
resistance of Obama, despite all the crowing about his “gutsy” choice to
green-light the mission). To his credit, Obama has green-lit drones that continue to take out key al Qaeda terrorists,
such as the traitorous Anwar al-Awlaki. We have foiled dozens of attempted
terrorist attacks on our own soil. All to the good.
Now for the bad. We have a president who embraces the Muslim
Brotherhood. His Secretary of State is actively facilitating the Organization
of Islamic Cooperation’s goal to criminalize “Islamophobia.” Our Dept. of
Homeland Security has to be waterboarded before it will even mention the word
“Islam.” We are dumping the problem of a nuclear Iran on our erstwhile ally Israel.
We have a military leadership that would consider a lack of diversity to be the
most tragic result of the Ft. Hood shooting. We are throwing our troops in
Afghanistan under the bus in a chimeric effort to win the hearts and minds of
people who have neither. Our news and entertainment media collude with the Brotherhood
front group CAIR to
perpetuate the victimhood myth that Muslim-Americans have suffered a terrible
backlash ever since 9/11. This is a recipe for cultural suicide.
But perhaps the 9/11 complainers are onto something. Maybe
Americans should get over 9/11. Here’s
how I recommend we do that. The best way this country can “get over” 9/11 and
honor the memory of the dead and their families is to crush Islamic
fundamentalism out of existence, the way we crushed Japanese imperialism and
Nazism. Lay waste to the ideology that threatens the fundamental values that
America and the West hold dear. Stamp out threats to our freedoms, to human
rights, to our hard-won civilization. When we have eradicated sharia law and
its proponents from the face of the earth, then Americans can truly and freely
“get over” 9/11. Until then, the
unholy alliance of progressives and Islamists should be forewarned that true
Americans will never forgive, never forget.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 9/11/12)
