Eighteen years and counting. My latest in FrontPage:
Four years after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese empire and its Nazi partner had been relegated to the dustbin of history, and America was rebuilding from the ravages of warfare. Eighteen years after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States was in the middle of a long period of peace and prosperity, and was looking confidently into a future that promised to be even better. The contrast with today, the eighteenth anniversary of the jihad bombings of New York and Washington, couldn’t be more stark.
Bernie Sanders and other Democrat presidential candidates have decried America’s “forever wars” and vowed to end them. But they want to end them not because they have been won, but because they believe that there is no significant jihad threat, and that therefore our continued presence in Afghanistan in particular, but in Syria and Iraq also, is pointless and self-defeating. They want to end the “forever” wars so that more American resources can be devoted to the chimera of climate change, the vastly overestimated “white supremacist” threat, and the deception of “Islamophobia.”
Yet oddly enough for liberal Democrats, they do have a point, or at least a partial one. The war in Afghanistan has become a “forever war” because it has no clear goal or end point and no definition of victory. What’s more, even if the Taliban were completely eradicated, the jihad threat against the United States would not be ended, because that threat doesn’t originate solely in Afghanistan, and in many ways has not even been addressed in the years since September 11, 2001.
The jihad threat can emanate from anywhere the Qur’an and Sunnah are preached and believed. But saying that in America eighteen years after 9/11 won’t result in any public consternation or calls for the monitoring of mosques; it will only get you defamed as a “racist” and an “Islamophobe,” to be dismissed and shunned by all decent people. Meanwhile, one imam in Georgia recently stated: “There has not been another 9/11-such attack in America because Islam is winning.”
Empty braggadocio? Maybe. But this imam was no outlier. In August at the notorious the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, the imam Shaker Elsayed prayed that Allah would “grant victory to his servants, the mujahideen, wherever they are.” A few days later in Philadelphia, a convert to Islam named Maurice Hill shot and wounded six police officers in a shootout; according to the Clarion Project, he attended a “radical mosque,” the Masjid Ahlil Hadith Wal Athar, which “is known for preaching the Islamist ideology promoted by Saudi Arabia referred to as ‘Wahhabism.’”
Imagine what would have happened if in 1959, a German leader said that there had been no Nazi terror attacks in the United States because Nazism was winning, while another German leader publicly hoped for the victory of the Nazis, and a man who shot six policemen was found to be a member of a German society that preached Nazism. Imagine if those who called attention to the ongoing Nazi threat were derided as “anti-German bigots,” and not taken seriously by anyone. Imagine if a network of activist judges systematically struck down efforts by an anti-Nazi President to rectify this situation.
All that would have been inconceivable in 1959, but it is our reality today. The September 11 jihad attacks were a great victory for the forces of the global jihad, because since then the principal target of those attacks, the United States government, has been so concerned with not appearing to be “anti-Muslim” and not “going to war with Islam” that it quickly became, and remains, afraid to enunciate, much less to confront, the motivating ideology behind those attacks.
And so on this eighteenth anniversary of the murder of nearly three thousand Americans by the warriors of Allah, supporters of those warriors are all over this land, and many are in positions of power and influence. But no matter. The attention of the world has moved on. The jihad threat is a concern of the past, not of the present. All is well, and all will continue to be well, as long as we tackle global warming, the Russian threat to our elections, and the rise of white supremacism. Won’t it?
AnneM04031959 says
Never Forget!
Terry Gain says
Never forget what? It’s an empty slogan. Immediately after the attacks Bush gave the Saudis safe passage out of the country and then repeatedly told the biggest lie in history – that Islam is peace. Seven years after 9/11 the United States elected a Muslim President. The 9/11 attacks worked to perfection. There are no sign of an Awakening.
Sue Garns-Bellhouse says
So true!!
Carolyne says
Agree.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain,
The amount of damage that President Bush did to the entire free world when he declared that Islam is a “religion of peace” was immeasurable.
Consider how much further along the free world would be If he had immediately spoken the truth about Islam…
And it’s likely that we would have never had a president Obama…
AnneM04031959 says
Never Forget that this war is ONGOING.
Islam_Is Islam says
It’s going to get harder and harder to forget even by the elite like Bush, etc… Religion Demographics from 1945-2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZwnJ1cE1s
James Lincoln says
Islam is Islam,
Scariest YouTube video I have seen in years….
gravenimage says
“Never Forget” is not an empty slogan if you are working against Jihad, as so many Anti-Jihadists are.
Here is my painting, “Always Remember — Never Submit”:
https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/gravenimageartist/media/bWVkaWFJZDo0MjMzNTI2Nw==/?ref=
AnneM04031959 says
Thank-you and God Bless.
tim gallagher says
Well done, gravenimage. Those planes flying into the buildings is certainly an image that is burned into all our memories forever.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Anne and Tim.
Henry Schalk says
All free people must wake up. Islam must be designated as the enemy. I am at war with Islam.
Rev. G says
I am not at war with islam. I do however recognize that islam is at war with me, and am prepared to react accordingly.
Henry Schalk says
Islam fights dirty. Will blocking punches in self defence win the fight? Or will you have to throw a knock out blow?
mortimer says
Response to HS: the match with Islam will be decided when Muslims see that Mohammed wrote the Koran and it is not divinely inspired.
Henry Schalk says
Response to Mortimer at 9:57 am. Indeed, endgame = Islam exposed as the lie that it is for all to see.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, if you are waiting for Muslims to realize that Islam is a bad thing, you will have a very long wait.
Jaladhi says
This war will last as long as Islam exists!! And the West is enabling Islam and Muslims in their dream! Sad!!
Don McKellar says
Some issues with this piece:
1959 had its problems. The Cold War had everybody terrified of nuclear Armageddon and Castro took over Cuba and brought that threat right to America’s back door. The Vietnam War started in 1959. US meddling in Central America and backing of dictators in places like Guatemala brought civil wars and the disasters that still impoverish those countries and are underlying the illegal alien problem. Lots of other problems in 1959.
And as for prosperity in 1959 vs 2019, well, Trump has got something to say about that.
You are right in pointing out the difference between an enemy like devout moslems following Islam vs. fleeting socialist dictatorships.
libertyORdeath says
The US had also imported many former nazis and were working with others in Europe .
gravenimage says
Actually, it was Communism that did a great deal of damage to its victims.
mortimer says
Never forget 9-11 ! Say a prayer today for the grieving families. The governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran were behind 9-11 and they should be sued for victims’ compensation.
The hate-filled doctrine (Al Walaa wal Baraa = Islamic apartheid) which caused 9-11 is still an ‘essential’ part of Islam today. The threat is alive.
http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html
somehistory says
In the war with Japan and Germany, people from those countries who were inside the U.S., were viewed as enemies of the U.S. Had they been viewed as moslims are viewed today, and if any had been “enemies” of the country, things would have been different. Much different.
moslims have been in this country from about the same time frame, although not to the extent we all see now.
Had saudi arabia and iran been recognized as the enemies of the U.S. on 9/11, and if moslims came only from those two nations, perhaps things would have been more like they were in the midst of WW2.
Nothing like that was the case, even though in the very decade before 2001, enemies of the U.S., a.k.a. moslims in an organization they call moslim brotherhood, were…and still are…inside the U.S. and wrote down their goal of ‘destroying’ the U.S. “from within.” The moslim brotherhood began in ismailia, Egypt, and quickly spread so that in saudi arabia bin laden was a member bin laden started al queda with the encouragement of a major mb member.
How many members of the mb were also members of the U.S. government in 2001? How many were in positions of trust? How many were engaged in the “sabotage” from within and making it possible for the killer terrorists to invade and attack, murder and destroy?
It has been made clear that mueller…and how many others… involved in aiding the moslims **after** the attack. How many…and who…engaged in aiding them **before** the attack? If there were moslims in key positions of trust, in security, etc,, they wouldn’t have needed too many like mueller, but there were likely more than we might think.
It is still the goal of the mb…and other moslims in offshoots of the mb, al shabab, boko haram, etc, and moslims that don’t call any of these groups their own, to destroy and take over the world, for islam.
islam is evil to the “core”…which is what al queda means…and throughout. No moslim should be trusted. They are all taught to lie to advance their cause and to spread islam’s filth everywhere.
Wellington says
Islam remains in the driver’s seat because way too many in the West still don’t realize how injurious it is to freedom. Ignorance of Islam is a great ally of Islam. Still a lot, heaps actually, of ignorance out there. Yes, more in the West know Islam’s true worth (or would “worthlessness” be a more accurate word?) than 18 years ago but so many still don’t.
Can’t win a war if you don’t even know who the enemy is. The enemy in this case is Islam—all of it. It will destroy the West if given the chance. Right now it is still being given that chance.
somehistory says
When I read comments like yours today, ti makes me think of this:
“A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world. ”
Michael Moriarty played David ‘Mo’ Rutherford (notice the nickname)
Now islam is not “delicious” by any means, but many people are making it appear to be something special to the uninformed..
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
A correct analysis, my compliments.
Yes, there is still a lot of ignorance out there including by people who are otherwise quite intelligent. They are busy with their jobs, families, etc., and they are fed a sanitized version of Islam by the leftist / Islamophile media on a daily basis.
And to top it off, two recent US presidents, GW Bush and Barack Obama both told the world that Islam is a “religion of peace”.
There is also a feeling among the uninformed citizens that countries like the United States have been wrong about certain groups of people in the past – and they don’t want the country to repeat those mistakes.
These uninformed citizens do not yet realize that Islam is totally different – and has absolutely no place in a free society.
I’m not trying to excuse this uninformed behavior, I’m just trying to explain it.
Thoughts?
Wellington says
James: I don’t allow myself anymore to be amazed that so many people, including good people I know, just won’t take the time to study Islam. I remain somewhat puzzled by this but no longer amazed. While some I know, and not just friends but mere acquaintances, have listened to what I have to say about Islam (and thereafter studying it on their own have more or less—sometimes more, sometimes less—acknowledged that I am correct about this religion) some simply don’t want to hear anything negative about this religion EVEN THOUGH in virtually every instance I have quickly discovered they know next to nothing about Mo’s creed. One friend of mine wrote to me and said he didn’t want me to ever again send him information about Islam—you see, he knows some Muslims and they are nice people and thus Islam must be OK. This man is very talented in his field and has a doctorate so there is something far more going on than just a matter of education. I think it’s wrapped up with some subconscious refusal to conclude that mankind could get a major religion which is rotten to the core. Islam does indeed hide behind its religious veil most effectively.
On the matter of Western nations engaging in wrongs in the past, which is certainly true, this too has been used by Western people I have come across to excuse or overlook wretched behavior by Muslims. As gravenimage indicated above, the emphasis by many seems to be placed on not doing wrongs in the future all the while not focusing on all the wrongs committed by non-Western societies. Well, all societies and civilizations have engaged in wrongs but it seems that only the West is expected to apologize for them and feel real bad about it too. As I have rhetorically asked before at JW, when has the Islamic world, the American Indian world, the Chinese, sub-Saharan African societies, et al. been asked to apologize for their many awful behaviors? I really don’t like double standards but we have them. We sure do.
Well, this is enough for now. Hope and yours are doing well. Take care.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington, Somehistory, and James.
James, I agree that unearned Western guilt is a significant part of the problem in giving Islam a pass. Too many Westerners understand *nothing* about the history of Islam.
Angemon says
+1
Bill says
I used to wonder why ppl fought like they did places like Bosnia, read genocide, against each other. The more I found out about is-lame the more I understood why ppl fought against is-lame like they did. I’m prepared to fight against them like that too.
Walter Sieruk says
Those murderous jihadists in their horrible Islamic attacks on September 11, 2001 were not acting 2:191. out in a hijacked form of Islam but actual Quran based non-watered down hard core . As the Quran teaches in 9:111, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Likewise, this “holy book” of Islam also instructs in 47:4 “ Whenever you encounter the disbeliever strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
Let’s face it, using bombs as those as the Sir Lanka jihadists did can, for sure, make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can. There are the other verses the give instruction for violence and killing for the cause of Islam, as 2:191. 5:33. 8:39.9:5, 38-39.
Furthermore ,t’s also very necessary its now been eighteen years since those jihadist murderous attack and affronts against both humankind and America. Thus it’s appropriate to reiterate the very important message below .
There is a rather old song that was written way before the murderous jihad affronts which occurred on September 11, 2001. That many apply to this current late decade of this twenty–first century.
The title of that song to “Try to remember…”
Some of the lyrics to well apply to now are “Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and ho, so mellow… Try to remember the kind of September when you were a tender and callow fellow…Try to remember the kind of September when life was tender that no one wept expect the willow… Try to remember the kind of September when love was a ember about to billow…”
Yes, that was the past and the somewhat as it was pre- 9/11 Septembers before those Islamic terror murder attacks on that specific day.
Now viewing things as they are .Life is no longer slow of mellow. For all patriotic Americans need the be fast and keep up with news and information regarding Muslim terrorist activities. Now men can’t be so tender and callow. Men need to keep strong vigilance for things, items and individuals the appear suspicious and it’s no longer good be naïve. Likewise the lyrics of the song further went “Try to remember the kind of September when life was so tender that no one wept expect the willow…” Now many people have wept because of the heinously vicious murdering actions commit by Muslim terrorists. In addition, the old song lyrics further are “Try to remember the kind of September when love was an ember about to billow…” Now love instead of being and “ember about to billow” the sad and tragic reality is vicious hate by jihad-minded Muslims now pose a danger. Nevertheless, people of the West need to reject hate as to not be of the same mindset as the jihadists are
Therefore, don’t let them fool you, the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for Politics.” Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the “holy book” of Islam the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” Let’s face it, using jet planes a missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then sword can. Wake up West to the actual nature of Islam before it’s too late.
Walter Sieruk says
With this eighteenth anniversary of those September 11, 2001 Islamic murderous affronts a better understand the essence of Islam’s holy book, the Quran is important. So what was predicted in the first century AD in the New Testament of the Bible had been fulfilled in the seventh century with Islam. Its false promise of a paradise with many virgins for the jihadist who dis fighting for the cause of Islam. This Quran based doctrine/story of a paradise with virgins may be found in Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. To put it more precisely this cleverly devised story of the virgins in a paradise taught by the imams was predicted in 2 Timothy 4: 3, 4. which reads “For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate {endure} sound and wholesome instruction, but having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man – made fictions.” Furthermore, the man who presented the book into the world that teaches the lie of the mansions with 72 virgins is in reality just one of the “many false prophets [that] have gone forth in the world.” 1 John 4:1. And also has its own false message, false angle and is accursed by God. – Galatians 1 : 6 – 9.
THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE
Walter Sieruk says
With this eightieth anniversary of those murderous September 11, 2001 affronts against both humankind and America by the Muslims who are jihadists of the al Qaeda terror network it’s very important to know and understand those brutal and deadly jihad terror attacks on 9/11 are based the Qu ‘ran, As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
All this does lead to an important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists ,as those of al Qaeda use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem 9/11 mass murders.
There, the answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
tim gallagher says
It’s been a 1400 year long war which Islam, endlessly hate-filled and violent in its attitude towards all non-Muslims, declared from the get go. Only getting rid of Islam will end the murderous violence, which has been going on for 1400 years. Finding some way to dismantle the evil, murderously violent ideology, or, at least, shut its followers out of our more civilised countries, is the only answer, or, otherwise, this war will go on and on. What a blight Islam has been! And it is pathetic how there are still so many people (in media, academia, political circles, etc) who make excuses for Islam and somehow keep trying to portray Muslims as victims, who are being picked on by non-Muslims. What an amazing trick that is, the way Islam, which started this neverending war, is excused by many people.
gravenimage says
Islam was isolated for many years, and we were largely safe from Jihad,
tim gallagher says
it’s got to be the answer, gravenimage. If they aren’t living amongst us and can’t get to us, then we will be a lot safer. It would be wonderful if this foul ideology, Islam, would unravel and disappear. What you mention about how Islam was isolated is a lot harder to achieve in this age of modern transport, etc, unlike when Islam was basically thrown out of Europe many years ago.
gravenimage says
Tim, you are right that it is harder to isolate Islam today–but the main problem is that we have foolishly invited invading Muslims into our lands. Just a couple of decades ago–well within living memory for most of us–any kind of Jihad was very rare in the West.
tim gallagher says
Couldn’t agree more, gravenimage. So many people in our societies are so unbelievably slow to wake up to the inevitable problems Muslims are bound to bring. It seems to be even worse in western European countries, many of which seem to be almost too far gone to be saved from the hellish world that Islam brings with it. I keep thinking, come on, everybody, wake up. But then, I realise there are also the people, who have the globalist agenda, who are aware, but still support bringing the Muslims in. It’s a mystery to me how anyone can want to have the garbage that Islam brings in their countries.
gravenimage says
The denial runs deep, Tim. A lot of people *don’t want to know* that Islam is a threat–it is too scary, and disturbs the “narrative” that all ideologies are benign.
Still, people *are* waking up–it is just slow. It is also true that people were slow to wake up to the threat of Fascism in the 1930s. I just hope it is fast enough.
gravenimage says
The Forever War
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Yes–this madness will go on forever if we don’t acknowledge what we are fighting.
infidel says
And so also the Mumbai mass murders of 2008 by Islam.. another forever war..
sidney penny says
The Japanese and Nazis did not do it for religion but for figureheads like the Emperor and Hitler.
So how do you fight a ” religion”?
sidney penny says
They tried to ban the book of the book of the religion in India but did not seceded.
Time to try again?
Calcutta Quran Petition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calcutta_Quran_Petition
The Calcutta Quran Petition (Bengali: কলকাতা কোরান মামলা) is a book by Sita Ram Goel and Chandmal Chopra, and published by Goel under his Voice of India imprint. The first edition was published in 1986, the second in 1987 and the third in 1999.
The subject matter of this book is censorship, the banning of books and the Quran.
The purpose of the litigation (court action) was to show Muslims who use the law to ban books they want to ban that the same can apply to them.
http://indiafacts.org/revisiting-a-classic-the-calcutta-quran-petition-book-review/
On 29 March 1985, one Chandmal Chopra filed a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking a ban on the Quran under Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code
because it “incites violence, disturbs public tranquillity, promotes, on the ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities, and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other religious communities of India.”
The Calcutta High Court disallowed the petition, but the issues raised by it remain relevant, especially now when the need to understand the causes of terror in the name of Islam is greater than ever.
gravenimage says
If owning a Qur’an were illegal, the state would come after people like Robert Spencer, for daring to expose what that book contains.