In Truth Revolt today I discuss the latest fiction from the fantasist in the White House:
Barack Obama’s words at the dedication last week of the National September 11 Memorial Museum positively dripped with irony. After retailing some accounts of heroism from that terrible day, he intoned:
Here we tell their story, so that generations yet unborn will never forget. Of coworkers who led others to safety. Passengers who stormed a cockpit. Our men and women in uniform who rushed into an inferno. Our first responders who charged up those stairs. A generation of servicemembers — our 9/11 Generation — who have served with honor in more than a decade of war. A nation that stands tall and united and unafraid — because no act of terror can match the strength or the character of our country. Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us; nothing can change who we are as Americans.
“Nothing can ever break us”? “Nothing can change who we are as Americans”? Like virtually everything about Barack Obama, those statements are hubristic and fantasy-based. There is no guarantee, either from the divinity or the inexorable workings of history, that the United States of America, or the American character, which Barack Obama has done so much to besmirch, are eternal and unassailable. He himself has done an extraordinary job of weakening us to the point of breaking and changing who we are as Americans.
But more to the point of this particular address: how about an enemy we dare not name and are determined to appease when we’re not downplaying or denying outright the threat he represents? Can that denial break us? Can that willful ignorance change who we are as Americans? If that enemy is implacable and determined to destroy us, while we are just as implacably determined to pretend that he doesn’t mean what he says and that he faces intense opposition within his own community when in fact he does mean what he says and faces only token opposition within his own community, amid clouds and fogs of deception — can that break us? Can that change who we are as Americans?
We’re going to find out.
Note also that Barack Obama said nothing at all about who exactly carried out the attack on 9/11, and why, and what the status of that war is today, and what he proposes to do about this threat in the future. This omission is all the more glaring in light of the fact that there is an ongoing controversy about the Museum touching on the question of who exactly perpetrated the 9/11 attack.
Recently the New York Times reported that Muslim leaders in New York are angry about a film shown at the Museum, entitled “The Rise of Al Qaeda,” because it “refers to the terrorists as Islamists who viewed their mission as a jihad.” Sheikh Mostafa Elazabawy, the imam of Masjid Manhattan, wrote to the museum’s director: “The screening of this film in its present state would greatly offend our local Muslim believers as well as any foreign Muslim visitor to the museum.”
Wait – aren’t the “local Muslim believers,” as well as any given “foreign Muslim visitor,” supposed to be part the vast majority of Muslims worldwide who abhor and reject al Qaeda? So why would a film about al Qaeda offend them? Because, Elazabawy explains, “unsophisticated visitors who do not understand the difference between Al Qaeda and Muslims may come away with a prejudiced view of Islam, leading to antagonism and even confrontation toward Muslim believers near the site.”
Akbar Ahmed, a professor at American University and a renowned and respected moderate Muslim, complained that people who see the film are “simply going to say Islamist means Muslims, jihadist means Muslims.” While he acknowledged that “the terrorists need to be condemned and remembered for what they did,” he warned that “when you associate their religion with what they did, then you are automatically including, by association, one and a half billion people who had nothing to do with these actions and who ultimately the U.S. would not want to unnecessarily alienate.”
Later, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) jumped into the fray, calling on the Museum “to remove stereotypical and stigmatizing terminology from its ‘The Rise of Al Qaeda’ film” – such as “Islamist extremism” and “jihadism.” CAIR-NY Board Member Zead Ramadan declared: “After repeated requests to correct misrepresentations, the film ignorantly implies a religion, rather than a group of criminals, was to blame for the September 11 attacks.”
But the film doesn’t do this. It is not the 9/11 Museum that is associating their religion with what they did. It was the 9/11 hijackers themselves who associated their religion with what they did. In March 2009, the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin As-Shibh, Walid bin ‘Attash, Mustafa Ahmed AI-Hawsawi, and ‘Ali ‘abd Al-’Aziz ‘Ali – styling themselves as the “9/11 Shura Council,” wrote a lengthy communiqué entitled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations.”
In it, they wrote: “Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims. Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion….We ask to be near to God, we fight you and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in god’s [sic] cause is a great duty in our religion.”
They quoted numerous Qur’an verses, including one stating that “to those against whom war is waged, permission is given (to fight,) because they are wronged and verily, Allah is most powerful for their aid” (22:39), and another commanding Muslims to “fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but be not the transgressor, Allah likes not the transgressors” (2:190). They even quoted the notorious “Verse of the Sword”: “Then fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, and besiege them and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush” (9:5).
To cinch their case, they used two verses enjoining Muslims to strike terror into the hearts of their foes: “Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, for that they joined companies with Allah, for which he has sent no authority; There [sic] place will be the fire; and evil is the home of the wrongdoers” (3:151); and “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the heart of the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (8:60).
Five years have passed, and no moderate Muslim authority has taken up this Islamic case for 9/11 and refuted it on Islamic grounds. This doesn’t mean that the jihadist argument is ipso facto correct, but for Elazabawy, Ahmed and Ramadan to pretend, and to demand that the 9/11 Museum pretend, that the 9/11 plotters had no Islamic case and did not identify Islam as the motive and justification for their actions simply flies in the face of the facts.
In Osama bin Laden’s letter to the American people, which was published on November 24, 2002, he put it succinctly: “The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.” This was the ultimate purpose of the 9/11 attacks: to weaken the American economy, so that ultimately the American government would collapse. That, presumably, would end what bin Laden and his allies considered to be unacceptable American interference in Muslim countries, and pave the way for the U.S. itself to become an Islamic state.
The mainstream media and the Obama Administration do their best to deny and downplay all this, but that only enables the advance of this agenda. As I show in my book Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In, it also virtually guarantees that there will be more jihad attacks.
Barack Obama is sure, or says he is sure, that “nothing can ever break us.” But if anything can, it will be the weakness and unpreparedness that are the consequences of his willful ignorance and denial of the jihad threat.
Jax Tolmen says
Excellent post Mr Spencer, I’m a major fan of your “Truth Revolt” series of articles – I’d very much like to see you live during an actual debate, you would be a very formidable and powerful opponent.
What I’ve read from this article is that the American leadership is full of, for lack of a more appropriate word, pussies. Absolute, utter pussies. Spineless little sacks of fear and mediocrity; good for nothing except being screwed over and mislead by hordes of jabbering sook bags.
It makes me sad, I might only be relatively young, but I’m certainly old enough to remember the tough talk and strong will the American people projected after 9/11. What happened? Did the collective balls drop off from your country? Are the American people really that afraid of offending their worst enemy?
Who cares what these damn Muslims think, they can deal with the facts. If they can’t, then they can build a bridge and get over it. It disgusts me that the leadership of such a great country is so caught up in such petty sentiments instead of focusing on the real problem. The real problem is Islam. The sooner the American leadership wakes up, grows a pair and gets on with taking action the better. Every single day wasted with this pretentious pandering is costing lives.
I’m sure the founding fathers would be sick if they could see what a sad, pathetic, whimpering mess the supposed ‘leadership’ of your country had been reduced to. I always admired America for its strength; but now its like an embarrassing uncle shaking everyone’s hand limply and popping up in random places and doing absolutely nothing useful.
I will say that I’m noticing an increasingly large amount of Americans revolting online against the stupidity rife throughout the ‘elite’. Hopefully some day soon, America will find its spine again and get back on track to being a country worth fearing.
Judi says
Well said Jax
voegelinian says
A generally sound assessment of the Problem of the Problem; only it’s not just America, it’s the whole damn West who is full of “pussies” in this regard.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
… no act of terror can match the strength or the character of our country. Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us; nothing can change who we are as Americans.
– Prez Barack Hussein Obama
Nothing can ever break us? Nothing can change who we are. With all due respect, Mr. President, but *you* already have done both. The economy is broken and is in store for storm weather once the zero inflation rate is lifte, which must happen. Never in economic history has a spending orgy been unwound without inflation, but we pretend it will be done this time.
Everytime I go to Eden Prairie I see how you’ve changed us, although prior presidents played a role in that too, all of them lifting the racist flag of now dead Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who felt so bad about letting that girl to die a slow death of suffocation, and about him not being charged with negligent homicide and put in jail for a couple of years, that he had to atone, and his immigration bill, which still stands today, has empowered you, racist Obama, to further inflict punishment and bad future prospects on this once great nation.
But it’s easy to see how you said these things, Prez Barack, given that you now are a known liar. Never break us never change us are just two more lies atop the growing mountain of lies. I’ll give you credit on this one, though: these lies weren’t told to help rig an election.
mortimer says
Denial is the enemy…denial that orthodox, classical Sunni Islam is a fascist ideology that creates fascist dictatorships. There is no other Sunni form of government. Anything but a Sharia-dictatorship is a form of secularism that is incompatible with Islamist political ideology. For that reason pluralistic democracy will ALWAYS be attacked and undermined by jihadists. Freedom of expression will ALWAYS be attacked and undermined by jihadists. Discrimination against women will ALWAYS be the goal of the jihadists.
Sunni Muslims will NEVER stand up with a plan to stop the jihadists, because they are in almost complete agreement about everything.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
And they’re all Jihadists: activist Jihadists, taquiyya Jihadists, terror funding Jihadists, tacit support Jihadists, demographic Jihadists… they come in different stripes but they are all carrying the stripes.
But Mort: why the emphasis on the Sunnis, are the Shia any different?
voegelinian says
APF, good catch. I’ve long thought mortimer is a person whose familial background comes out of some part of the Muslim world. because of various past statements in which he tries to exculpate minions of Muslims (even while sounding tough about Islam per se). He could well be Persian and have a Shia background.
Guy Macher says
No Mohameddan belonged there as guest. Least of all the usurper in the White House.
Arrest. Try. Execute. Ship body back to Kenya.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Indonesia. He was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. Did you know the place is the world’s most populous Moslem nation?
voegelinian says
Of further interest in this regard is the fact that his mother, the white airhead Otherlover Stanley Ann Dunham, was apparently a devotee of an obscure Indonesian Muslim cult called “Subud” — and so was Loretta Fuddy, the woman elevated to the post of Director of the Hawaii Department of Health in 2011 after Neal Palafox was forced to resign (apparently because he wouldn’t play along with the elaborate birth certificate scam); and as we know Loretta Fuddy died in a small plane crash off an island of Hawaii late last year.
The details have been meticulously described and analyzed by “Butterdezillion”, though these details are so dizzyingly complex, I have a difficult time following them and maintaining an overall understanding.
To get the reader started, just plunge into the deep end:
http://www.birtherreport.com/2013/04/loretta-fuddy-fingered-in-obama-identity-fraud.html
duh_swami says
What he really thinks…
‘The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam’…
Bezelel says
If obaMUD has his way, the future will belong to those who pussyfoot around the abomination we call islam.
logdon says
Spot on.
That was the most revealing of all and basically the President of the United States of America endorsing Islamic sharia blasphemy law.
It was jaw dropping and the silence of the pundits/politicians/media spoke volumes.
As for this 9/11 speech? Cliche laden hypocrisy.
I never bought the ‘soaring rhetoric’ stuff in the first place.
It was all hollow guff, meaningless platitude tacked on to quite frankly tacky language borrowed and hacked about from previous statesmen who actually meant what they said and were far more adroit with the English language than any wet behind the ears speechwriter could dream of .
We have truly entered the asylum.
The whole world needs a clean break. Cultural Marxism and its enabling tool of political correctness has become the lietmotif of political discourse and it’s all a huge lie.
It is what powers Islam and its accompanying multiculturalism has opened the gates for millions of them to enter the dar-el Harb unresisted in an invasion force which relies on our self ordained dhimmidom to succeed.
We give. They take. It’s that simple yet our so called pluralism will have none of it.
We’re all the same, they tell us. I’ve got news. We’re not and one glance at a ‘diverse’ neighbourhood is enough to expose the myth.
And it’s not just the Bible era Middle Eastern clothes, its the crime, corruption, fraud, cheating and self sealing ‘otherness’ which marks them out.
Call me an old fashioned islamophobe but how the US could vote in a man as President eight years after 9/11 with the middle name of Hussein has to be the most self destructive act in it’s entire history.
It is quite boggling but that’s the age of deceit we’re in.
Wellington says
The greatest threat to the world today doesn’t come from Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), the North Koreans or the Kardashians, but rather from Islam———-all of it and not just from obfuscations here like “Islamism” or “radical Islam.”
Respecting this threat, the extremely limited man who currently occupies the Oval Office is part of the problem in dealing with this threat and in no way part of the solution.
John C. Barile says
More mush from the Wimp–as that memorable NY Post headline put it, referring back then to Jimmy Carter.
EYESOPEN says
You are 100% correct Wellington – on BOTH counts.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The greatest threat to the world today doesn’t come from Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), the North Koreans or the Kardashians, but rather from Islam…
The debate is over about AGW, because. Funny thing, though, is that the debate never even started on Islam. That’s not allowed, because.
gravenimage says
“Nothing can ever break us”—says the occupant of the White House who has done the most to test that very hypothesis. Here he is, throwing the American people a bone and hopping we won’t notice his willing appeasement of the very Jihadists who hit us on 9/11. What gall.
John Magee says
Nothing can ever break us”? A dozen well placed suit case nukes or an EMP attack by terrorists would sent the USA back 150 years within an hour. President Obama admitted not long ago what he feared most was a nuclear bomb going off in New York City. What does he know and won’t admit yet he still insists on shielding Jihadist’s and Islam from any criticism?
Paleologos says
Akbar Ahmed:
“when you associate their religion with what they did, then you are automatically including, by association, one and a half billion people who had nothing to do with these actions and who ultimately the U.S. would not want to unnecessarily alienate.”
Slow down there, Akbar. All that statement means to me is that there are 1.5 billion muslim turds on planet Earth, and I would like to do a whole lot more than just alienate them.
Also,why exactly does the belief system involving a pedophile prophet and a petty, spiteful moon-god qualify as a “religion” in a mostly literate age?
Akbar, baby, watch this movie, and tell me why we shouldn’t just kick muslim asses wherever we find them.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18194091Bzm5chet?h1=Fitna+von+Geert+Wilders
R/
Paleologos
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Mr Spencer
No where in their statement did the terrorists use the word GOD!
They always use ALLAH
It is vital that people who translate the Arabic language NEVER associate the God of Jesus Moses & Abraham with the god of Muhammad called Allah
The followers of Muhammad deliberately translate the Quranic verses mentioning Allah to God so that they INDOCTRINATE Arabic ignorant people into believing that Allah & God are the same
Allah is NOT God ans most assuredly NOT the SAME as the God of Jesus Moses & Abraham
Please correct me if I am wrong
Respectfully
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
PJG says
Grat to hear from you, al Rassooli!
PJG says
“Great”. I tried to change it but JW told me to slow down with my comments!
duh_swami says
From post above…enjoyed hurling the most vulgar of words at you religidiots and your childish fictitious beliefs
So it’s not enough for you to be an atheist, you would be a mouthy ,vulgar, insulting atheist as well…Well, I don’t know about the rest, but I’m not impressed with your primitive intellect or assaults.
Is there any chance you will be going away soon?
Mirren10 says
”As long as one doesn’t cross the line with me, I don’t with them. Anyone who hints of something about me which is not to my liking, I put them in their place”
And,
” … enjoyed hurling the most vulgar of words at you religidiots and your childish fictitious beliefs”
What a load of arrogant, self-aggrandizing, delusional rubbish. If you are indeed an apostate from islam, you clearly haven’t shed the typical foul mouthed, self-delusional, would be macho mindset of the typical mohammedan.
” Anyone who hints of something about me which is not to my liking, I put them in their place”
Really ? I think you are an unpleasant, boastful, ignorant and childishly potty mouthed idiot. Think you can put me in my place ? Nope, because my place is amongst intelligent, rational adults, whilst yours is in the bathos of residual mohammedanism.
But you can have a go.
Waiting …
gravenimage says
Swami and Mirren, it sounds from your comments as though the vile “P” put in an appearance—am I right?
He was already banned under his username “Ismail Mohamed” for posting pornographic material to myself and another poster. What a nasty piece of work.
There are *lots* of decent atheists and agnostics here, but he is not one of them.
Mirren10 says
Hi, graven.
Yes, it was the revolting ‘P’.
No doubt he’ll try again at some point, with a different moniker and a new email address.
But he’s too stupid to successfully change his ‘style’, so he’ll soon be spotted.
I see marc has already done so, and removed his vomitous spewings ! 🙂
Hope you and yours are well !
Bezelel says
Thanks for posting about the notorious “P” being erased from the ledger. Tourettes syndrome I guess.
Daniel Rubio says
Islam: A totalitarian ideology based on hatred, conquest and discrimination, posing as a religion. And “posing as a religion” is the big problem. That is what has allowed it to position itself in a spot where it demands and gets “respect” from gullible Westerners, while at the very same time attempts to undermine and destroy them.
Until the majority of Westerners recognizes islam as another form of fascism, nazism or any other extremist “ism”-s, this evil doctrine will continue to gain a stronghold in the US, one NY-taxi driver at a time.
Daniel Rubio says
Western values: Liberty, equality under the law and the pursuit of happiness.
Islam values: Subjugation, inequality under the law and the pursuit of vengeance.
Now can anyone explain how can these two be reconciled, or even expected to “coexist” in a “multicultural” paradise?
Maybe the proto-muslim currently occupying the White House has an answer? After all, he claims that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam”?
Transmaster says
There is really only one side in the Syrian conflict to support and that is Hafez al-Assad. He is a secular Alawite Muslim. He may be a son-of-a-bitch but he is our kind of SOAB. I would be in communication with Putin and I would work with him on this matter. I would tell Vladimir Putin that we both have a problem with Islamic terrorism and let’s work together to wipe these barbarians off of the Planet. No more nation building, no more looking at the secular leaders of these Islamic countries from a western democratic point of view. We have to be hard nosed about it. I would develop all of the the energy resources of the North America so countries so those who are not our friends can no longer influence us. During the Cold War we supported dictatorships who where anti-communist, we should do the same now against Islamic Terrorism. I would be on the phone with Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi and I would tell him he has our full support and what can we do to help. I would call Assad and tell him we don’t like you but the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It was a gigantic mistake to remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq, he was a thug, but he was the only person capable of keeping the Iranians in check. People here have talked about Israel controlling our foreign policy in the area, well they are the only true democracy in the region after all. As it is now our foreign policy is controlled by the Saudi royal family, and Obama’s hate for Israel. I would make it clear to the Christian communities in these countries that they have our support, instead of importing Somali Islamists, I would, instead, make a home in the United States for threatened ancient Christian communities. My foreign policy would be simple, “what’s in it for us”.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s a very good thing to have a 9/11 memoial museum because of the murderous affronts that the jihadists who were al Qeada members commited on Septermer 11, 2001 in their evil and mad Islamic quest of their deadly violence of that day. Nevertheless, it needs to be stated that to have the pictures of the militant jihadists of al Qaeda on one of that Museums walls is highly inappropriate. By the idea that no publicity not even negative publicity should be given to those jihadist fiends . Let their name rot in history.
As the Bible teaches “the name ofthe wicked shall rot.” Proverbs 10:7. [KJV]
onisac says
One of the greatest problems is Islam has a 1400 year head start over the free world.
Islam wasn’t idle during that 1400 years either. No they were busy gaining more and more ground and mole placements, world wide.
Also worrisome is the fact that Islam is more and more motivated everyday. Islam’s commitment is 10 times greater than the U.S.’s. Furthermore, Islam has set goals, and work toward that end. The U.S. has no goals or plans.
Thank about that………… then tell me how we are to win this war?