It is now nineteen years after 9/11, and now more than ever, discussing the motivating ideology of the people who took down the Twin Towers and attacked the Pentagon on that fateful day is taboo. Establishment media coverage glosses over why the attacks happened. Delving in it beyond the idea that the hijackers had hijacked their own religion as well as four airplanes will get you charges of “racism,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia.” Twitter is going around flagging people for violating Pakistan’s Sharia blasphemy laws.
Meanwhile, the West has been inundated with people who hold to the same ideology as that of the hijackers. Meanwhile, the social media giants are moving quickly to stifle all realistic appraisals of the jihad threat as “hate speech.” They allow only one point of view to be heard: that which claims that Islam is a religion of peace and that mass Muslim migration into the West will have only a benign effect.
For nineteen years, a small, indeed tiny group of people has been trying to alert the free world, before it is too late, to the reality of the centuries-old and implacable threat of jihad, and to demonstrate that many of our public policies regarding it are wrongheaded and foolish to the point of being suicidal. For it is certain that the denial, willful ignorance, and the demonization of truth tellers in the West is leading to the ruin of free societies.
Meanwhile, Leftists rampage and riot in American cities, screaming “Death to America” and cheered on by the Iranian mullahs. What will this situation look like in five years? Ten?
It isn’t too late to turn things around. But it’s getting there. We must demand of our elected officials and candidates that they stand for the freedom of speech, and for a realistic approach to the jihad threat.
If they don’t, it doesn’t matter where they stand on other issues. The great game of trying to create societies that protect human freedom and human dignity will be essentially over. At least for now.
Walter Sieruk says
The important thing is to know and understand that those jihadists of al Qaeda of with their murderous affronts against humankind on September 11. 2001 were not engaging in warped or hijacked type of Islam .
They were engaging in a Qur”an based jihad of Islam,
For the Qu ‘ran instructs devote Muslims in 9: 111. “The believers fight in Allah’s cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed,. ” Likewise, in the Qur ‘an also instructs 9:123. ” O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelieves who are close to you , and let them find in you …”
Furthermore the Qu’ran also commands in 47:4. ‘Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
Let’s face it using jet airplanes as missiles as done on 9/11 on “disbelievers” is able to make a greater “slaughter among them than a sword can .
Islam :what a brutal,cruel violent bloody deadly religion it truly is.
Believer says
“Whosoever killed a person … it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” Quran
(5:32)
Victoria says
“ Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe “
Quran 8:55
Not sure disbelievers qualify as a “person” in the eyes of Islam.
gravenimage says
Believer disingenuously wrote:
“Whosoever killed a person … it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” Quran
(5:32)
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This is, as Believer no doubt knows, an admonition *to Jews* for supposedly not living up to their own ideals.
This has *nothing* to do with Muslims, and is not addressed to them at all.
Then, the very next verse threatens Infidels who do not convert to Islam:
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.
–Qur’an 5:32
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment
–Qur’an 5:33
9/11 was orthodox Islam–as are the almost 38,000 Jihad terror attack since then.
Terry Gain says
In my opinion relationships can’t succeed without honesty and mutual respect. With this in mind, all western nations should suspend further immigration of Muslims until such time as Muslim majority nations grant to their non-Muslim populations the same rights as are granted to their Muslim populations. This is the case in Western countries where Muslims are free to practice Islam as they please so long as they do not engage in jihad or otherwise commit criminal acts.
Such a policy would force all policy-makers – both those in western nations and those in majority Muslim nations – to address the fundamental inequity of Sharia law.
Once they are present in Western nations, Muslims must have the same rights as all other citizens. But there is no right of immigration. Mutuality requires that Muslims should not be permitted to enter western nations until such time as majority Islamic nations have adopted the following values: a recognition that people have free will, freedom of speech, freedom of and from religion, gender equality and equality of citizenship. Intellectual weakness is as dangerous as physical weakness and begets attacks.
Ex-Muslims seeking refuge from discrimination should be permitted to immigrate if otherwise qualified.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain says,
“Mutuality requires that Muslims should not be permitted to enter western nations until such time as majority Islamic nations have adopted the following values: a recognition that people have free will, freedom of speech, freedom of and from religion, gender equality and equality of citizenship.”
If that happened, the “majority islamic nations” would no longer be islamic. And it would negate the need for emigration to Western nations.
But you knew that already…
Terry Gain says
Indeed I did.
Terry Gain says
I am happy to see Robert Spencer using the expression “motivating ideology”. I have been using it for weeks. I assume that I picked it up from him. I’ve been telling people that we should not attack Muslims, but we should not shy away from attacking their motivating ideology.
Always On Watch says
Letting in hordes of Moslems into the West will be the death of Western Civilization. I hope to be in my grave by the time that travesty occurs — good change that I’ll be gone by then because I’m almost 69 years old now.
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God bless you, Mr. Spencer, for all the education you are providing with regard to Islam, with which it is impossible to co-exist.
Mr. Spencer, if not for you, I’d be dumb as a rock about the dangers of Islam. I am ever grateful for you, sir!
Boycott Turkey says
It’s been 19 years I remember my friend called me at work to tell me what had happened I knew immediately I knew it was a terror attack done by muslims I watched today a documentary today on the National Geographic channel about Bin laden and the 911 terrorists who committed the terror attack he intended to do worse if he could he was trying to obtain nukes but didn’t also Clinton had 2 opportunities to take him out but didn’t because he didn’t want to cause a outrage among Arab countries I think Clinton should be in jail for negligence lots of people woke up to Islam after 911 but some haven’t it seems there’s no unity against fighting Islam I feel Islam should be outlawed as a dangerous cult in the west it should be banned there have been other dangerous cults that have been banned so why not Islam?
mortimer says
Let’s us pray and struggle to make sure that they did not die in vain! Let us ensure that our Western neighbors understand that Islam is a supremacist political ideology inspired by intolerant source texts.
Let us try to communicate that the opinions of ordinary, lax, somewhat-observant Muslims does not have over-ride the authority of the source texts and that those source texts retain their divine authority until the moment that Muslims see they are merely of human origin.
OTTER says
911 is the best thing that happened to Islam in the United States.
Since then the numbers of Muslims has increased, the number of mosques has increased, the number of female genital mutilations have increased, censorship has increased, the number of elected Muslim representatives has increased, the number of Muslim prisoners has increased, law fare by CAIR had increased and leftist subservience and ignorance in popular culture about Muslims has definitely increased.
Insured all true signs that the United States is well on its way to committing civilizational suicide.
Completely unbelievable. And how the masses still slumber on undisturbed.
David Curtis says
Nice one, so true. Blind leading the blind.
Walter Sieruk says
There can be no doubt that Osama bin Laden was grinning on that day of September 11, 2001 when he received news of that murderous affront on humankind and America, being such an evil and vile character that he was. Bin Laden when he found out that his demonic scheme worked all he could do was sit around a grin. That Islamic fiend Bin Laden that no sympathy or empathy all for all the people who died the awful way in America.
For he was actually glad about that murderous jihad calamity that occurred that day of 9/11. To such a callousness of that character as Bin Laden the Bible teaches “He who is glad calamity will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 17:5. For that’s just what happened. For as they say “What goes around comes around.” So when his deadly violence came back on him in his compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad he was no longer grinning. For on the day the heroic Navy SEAL’s exterminated him, the report was that he looked confused and scared.
Likewise the Bible teaches “For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” Galatians 6;7. Bin Laden sowed violence and death so therefore he reaped violence and death. The very words of Jesus thus are proven be to be true. For Jesus taught the “He who takes up the sword shall perish by the sword.” Matthew 26:52. For Bin laden took up the firearm and he died by the firearm Osama bin Laden is now suffering in the fire of hell. May the name of Osama bin Laden rot in history. As the Bible teaches “The name of the wicked shall rot.” Proverbs 10:7.
Also, the heroes of United 93 banded together to fight the Jihadists and foiled their evil scheme by preventing more death and destruction in Washington D.C. The heroes united in a band or cord against those Islamic evildoers. The above is a reflection of Ecclesiastes 4: 12. This reads “Though one may be over-powered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken..”
Finally, all these jihadists will have a harsh awakening after they die; they will find out that they were lied to about the 72 virgins in a paradise. That is just one of many “cleverly invented stories” of men Second Peter 1:16. Instead of the virgins they will find themselves in hell with no hope.
Michael Copeland says
Special message for the American people:
Islam is government.
Furthermore, it is government WITHOUT the consent of the governed.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/07/islam-is-government/
john smith says
Michael, I have visited this site ( gates of vienna ) on several occasions,and I have seen your name in the comment section here at JW. However I had no idea that you are the actual author of many of the excellent articles I have seen there, as it is only now that I have made the connection.
Keep up the good work Michael, it will be through people like yourself, that will eventually open the eyes of those who are still blind, to the true threat that Islam imposes. Well done.
James Lincoln says
Michael Copeland,
Keep up the great work!
I just read the link to your article – fantastic!
FYI says
Michael
Superb article.Thanks.
GreekEmpress says
Mr. Copeland,
How is the snail mail fund raiser going?
Was there a replacement for PayPal found???
gravenimage says
Good question. Hope this is going well. Gates of Vienna is an important site.
GreekEmpress says
I had an email from Mr. May this morning. He is still looking for something to replace PayPal. BitCoin didn’t work out, and now he is looking at TipSmack, Payoneer, and GiveSendGo.
Anybody wishing to make a contribution can contact Mr. May at:
nedmay@chromatism.net
I didn’t know Mr.Copeland was a contributor to gatesofvienna,either. My compliments, sir!!!!
gravenimage says
Thanks, GreekEmpress.
J Morgan says
Excellent article. Thank you for that link.
gravenimage says
Michael, I had not realized you were a contributor to GoV, either. Thank you–important stuff.
gravenimage says
Could they see the world today, the 9/11 hijackers and Osama bin Laden would have ample reason to be pleased
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God help us, this is largely true.
Terry Gain says
Yes.Terrorism works. As long as there is not too much of it.
gravenimage says
It works on all too many people. Cringing dhimmitude.
Vladimir says
The irony is that it is Iran and it’s Twelver Shia Islam that is likely to benefit the most from 9/11 rather than the Sunni Salafist/Wahhabist Jihadis that carried out those attacks, who think that Iran and Shia Islam are heretical. Iran now after 9/11 has basically taken over a significant element of Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria, and is more powerful than they were in 9-11-2001