What do the heroes of September 11 mean in a year of hating police officers?
The 19th anniversary of 9/11 has been the nation’s darkest in this dreaded cycle.
The Black Lives Matter riots that attacked the statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, and Abraham Lincoln, did not spare 9/11 memorials.
The statue of a police officer was beheaded and toppled in Plymouth, MA at a 9/11 memorial honoring those who had died in the attacks. But the 2,000 pound steel beam from the World Trade Center proved beyond the ability of the vandals to topple.
When Black Lives Matter racists defaced statues and memorials in the Boston Common, including the ‘Glory’ regiment, they didn’t spare the 9/11 memorial in the Public Garden.
A 9/11 memorial honoring five fallen firefighters was defaced and the American flagpole was cut down in Washingtonville, NY,.There was also vandalism at the Decatur, IL memorial site, and a red, white and blue rearing horse 9/11 memorial in Rochester, NY was smeared with red paint.
Beyond the radical attacks on the monuments of September 11 were the attacks on its heroes.
The NYPD has suffered its worst days since 9/11 with over 400 officers injured in the BLM riots. Police and firefighters went from the heroes of a nation to being smeared as soulless monsters.
“I could see no difference between the officer who killed and the police who died, or the firefighters who died,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, an intellectual godfather of Black Lives Matter, wrote, “They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were the menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
“Between the World and Me”, the hateful tract in which Coates dehumanized the police officers and firefighters who had died trying to save people of all races and creeds, became a bestseller, was a Pulitzer finalist, and has repeatedly shown up on corporate anti-racism reading lists.
All of this makes commemorating September 11 into an awkward task that Democrats avoid.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum tried to cancel the Tribute in Light, whose beams that fill the night sky are used to light the space of the fallen towers of the World Trade Center, and the reading of the names of the fallen dead by 9/11 family members. It took an outpouring of anger from family members and alternative events by Tunnel2Towers to get the museum to reverse course.
While the leadership of the mismanaged museum blamed the pandemic for their decision, local Democrats had long viewed the ceremonies as intolerant and out of touch with their agenda.
Last year, Nicholas Haros Jr., the son of a 9/11 victim, had blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s minimization of the attack on America at the reading of the names, while wearing a t-shirt decorated with her comments minimizing the Islamic atrocity, “I was attacked, your relatives and friends were attacked, our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our nation’s founding on Judeo-Christian principles were attacked. That’s what some people did.”
Meanwhile, the Tribute in Light had been decried as a symbol of “extreme nationalism”.
There had always been a deep discomfort with the patriotism of September 11 and with its heroes and victims, the former were mostly working class white men from the bridge and tunnel crowd, and the latter were mostly white middle class men and women, many from outside the city and state, who were also insufficiently diverse and representative of the “New America”.
Even early on there had been efforts to replace the firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero with a more diverse group in an official memorial. In the long years after the men of the NYPD and the FDNY had raised up the courage of a nation, both organizations, like the military, have been gutted by political correctness, and have turned into shadows of their former selves.
The FDNY has a diversity monitor who has cost the organization $23 million, and a top diversity official who was sued for excluding one of the firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero from a color guard ceremony.
Nicholas Garaufis, a Clinton judge, and Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed their vision of diversity on the FDNY to ensure that “the racial, ethnic and gender demographics of the department’s firefighters reflect that of the city’s population as a whole” along with the “full integration of a mixed-gender workforce.”
But the heroism of the FDNY and NYPD on September 11 came from the fact that its men did not reflect a random sampling of the city’s population. They were extraordinary men, heroes who went where no one else would dare, climbing 100 stories in the hope of saving someone.
If Islamic terrorists were to fly planes into the Freedom Tower today, there would be fewer members of the FDNY’s mixed-gender and fully diverse workforce who would climb 100 stories with 60 pounds of gear on their backs while a skyscraper was tottering and burning on all sides.
On 9/11, firefighters around the country will commemorate their heroism by climbing 110 stories.
That’s the traditional kind of heroism. It’s out of step with the millennial ethos of performative hysteria spread virally across social media which turns victimhood into celebrity. The men who lived and died on that day were not victims and they were not trying to get famous. They did their duty. But to many the concept of duty has become as alien as frock coats and top hats.
19 years after 9/11, men and women born after the attack will be able to vote.
The politics of the present are being formed by radicals who, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 11 years old at the time, were children on September 11. The meaning of the day is as incomprehensible to them and as distant as Pearl Harbor.
The Obama administration had tried to shift the meaning of September 11 away from heroism to volunteerism. Its idea of commemorating the attack on America was cleaning up parks. As time goes by, there will be no need to actively suppress the commemorations, they’ll be irrelevant.
If we let it happen.
History is made up not only of dry facts, but emotional connections. The stories that define us are the ones that matter because they endow life with meaning. For millions of Americans, the death of an ex-con who had robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint gave their lives meaning. That’s why so much of the country is burning and so many of its memorials have fallen.
The Islamic terrorists who attacked us on September 11 had beliefs that gave their lives meaning. So did the SS soldiers who marched through Poland or their NKVD counterparts.
It is not the mere presence of evil that creates a crisis, but the absence of meaningful opposition to it. And meaningful opposition comes from a deep moral passion without which life is empty.
The 19 hijackers lied to the passengers that if they didn’t resist, they would be allowed to live.
Mohammed Atta told Flight 11 passengers, “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.”
It worked three times. And then when Americans realized what was at stake, it stopped working.
Atta and his band of Jihadist butchers understood that what normal Americans wanted was to be comfortable and safe. They wanted to recline back in their seats, plug in their headphones, and wait out the interminable passage of time they would spend flying in a tin can in the sky.
“Take prisoners and kill them. As Allah said: ‘No prophet should have prisoners until he has soaked the land with blood,’” Atta told his men.
“Just stay quiet, and you’ll be okay,” he lied to the infidel hostages.
The leftist radicals, who have been in league with Islamic terrorists, defending them in court, propagandizing for their “civil rights” in the press, and funding their networks, now call themselves, “woke”. Another September 11 anniversary reminds us that we need to wake up.
In our streets, the radicals chant, “Death to America”, they burn flags, desecrate churches and synagogues, and topple the statues of the nation’s founders. And their media allies and Democrat apparatchiks tell us to go along with it and we’ll be okay. The rioters and stabbers just want to issue their demands and make their point. If we stay quiet, they’ll leave us alone.
The 19th anniversary is another warning from the bloody echoes of history that they won’t.
When the Jihadis and BLMers chant, “Death to America”, believe that they mean it!
The enemies of our nation are also the foes of our history. They don’t just want to topple Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and every historical figure who wasn’t up to date with contemporary woke views on, in the words of a D.C. commission calling for the removal of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial, “age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity”. No, they want to be rid of the courage and heroism of our entire history because they know that the power of Americans to resist their brutality and hate comes from our history.
That includes September 11.
On a cool fall day, millions of Americans woke out of a hazy dream of the end of history and remembered that we were a nation, not a borderless global order, that we needed heroes, not diversity, that history wasn’t over, that we still had enemies, and that what mattered was not the color of your skin or your politically correct virtue signaling, but whether you would rush the cockpit or sit in your seat hoping that despite everything you knew, they wouldn’t kill you.
On the 19th anniversary of that cool fall day, we are passing through fire and havoc, flying over ruined cities and fallen rubble because too many of us had fallen asleep until the guttural voice came on again reading its hateful demands. And many of our fellow passengers kneeled while the anthem played, they disgraced their country, and the memory of our fallen dead.
Many others woke up. We know where the plane headed toward the right side of history flies. And we don’t intend to let it follow that familiar arc toward social justice and mass murder.
An anniversary only matters as much as it brings meaning and purpose into our lives.
No amount of wishing or willing can raise the dead of September 11 out of their ashen graves. All we can do this anniversary, and every one before it and since, is to keep resisting the terrorists, domestic and international, to stay awake and ready in the long flight of history.
We must remember our heroes and honor their valor because we may need to imitate it.
mortimer says
Meanwhile, the Trotskyist Antifa squads parade through cities joined by jihadists.
About 65% of Muslims in the US favor the Democrats, about 20% favor another party or no party and about 15% favor Republicans.
Ray Jarman says
Mortimer,
Do not these riots in our streets remind you of 1917 when the Russian nihilists and anarchists rampaged in the streets of St. Petersburg and Moscow?
mortimer says
Quote: “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.”
That’s a general command to the West from the Muslim Brotherhood, isn’t it?
We mustn’t speak out to protest the take-over of the West by the Muslim Brotherhood and their agents.
That is how freedom is taken away … not by valid logical argumentation, but by emotional outbursts and implied threats of violence.
Western people are permitting Muslims to curtail freedom of expression through their use of the HECKLER’S VETO.
Heckler’s Veto Definition: -“A heckler’s veto is an IMPERMISSIBLE content-based RESTRICTION on speech where the speech is prohibited due to an ANTICIPATED DISORDERLY or VIOLENT reaction of the audience.” – Justice Dolores Sloviter
COMMENT: The ‘heckler’s veto’ is nothing but VIGILANTE LAW or the LAW imposed by a MOB. No group attempting to administer a self-made law which vetoes the freedom of expression of others should be tolerated. The heckler’s veto is a crime against the majesty of the law which is the supreme, dominant authority controlling the conduct of everyone, however exalted or high his power. The heckler’s veto is an attempt to overthrow free speech which is the law of the land, and in its place to set up mob law, lynch law, and to substitute lawlessness for the law enforcement which obtains in civilized countries.
Ray Jarman says
+1 Very well stated.
Michael Copeland says
The recent Koran-burning demonstration in Sweden gives an ominous example of the hecklers’ veto:
Swedish police were outnumbered. They were obliged to admit defeat.
“….after a risk assessment, the authority has concluded that the threat posed by violent Muslim groups is so extensive that the security of the demonstrators cannot be guaranteed or that third parties and property are not subjected to Muslim hate attacks”, said Rickard Lundqvist, press spokesperson for the police in Malmö.
Reprehensibly, and in failure to uphold the law, they decided to move the goalposts: they announced that they were banning Islam-critical demonstrations in ALL places.
The hecklers are winning in Sweden.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Mortimer.
CogitoErgoSum says
The people who did it were Muslims and they did it for Islam. That is the truth and only liars and cowards fear it – liars, cowards … and Muslims.
Mauricio says
A drop of water:
https://orthodoxtimes.com/45th-clergy-laity-congress-concluded-archbishop-of-america-to-offer-memorial-service-on-9-11-in-front-of-the-saint-nicholas-national-shrine/
It’s worth pointing that this is possible in part because of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s efforts; otherwise, a mosque would be being built there instead.
Crusader 666 says
That the construction of a mosque was even suggested, let alone allowed to reach the planning stage, was a gross insult to those who died in the Islimeism attack on the U.S.A.
When will we understand that appeasing aggressors does not placate them, it makes them bolder and more confident in their eventual success!?
No more kow-towing to those who would enslave us! Crush them without mercy!
gravenimage says
+1
OVER it says
And as of today, the terrorists have won. Look at the SHlTHOLE America has become. Trump couldn’t save us because we don’t have guts to save ourselves. Sure, all those big bad soldiers have no problem fighting for other countries, while our went to crap. I gues the American motto today is go do what you are told peasant… You have no say. Prove me wrong, I won’t wait around for your feeble response, because you can’t.
CogitoErgoSum says
The shit holes are only in the cities run by Democrats. What’s your feeble response?
gravenimage says
I see we have another creep here preaching surrender. No thanks.
Michael Copeland says
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield.
Let’s roll!
revereridesagain says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
The terms “radical Muslims” and “radical Islam” is unknown to the Islamic world. What Westerners see as “radical” and “extremists” in the Muslim worldview they see as committed and devote Muslims engaging in the violence and killing in Islam’s jihad as the Qu’ ran instructs 2:191, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5.111.123.47:4.
In other words ,the murderous 19 jihadist hijackers of September 11, 2001 were actual Muslims who were totally committed the god of Islam, Allah . Islam and Islam’s jihad.
After 9/11 when the many apologists and propagandists for Islam in an attempt to hide and cover up the truth about the violence and killing that is part of the essence of Islam from uninformed and naive Westerners they make the bogus claim that “Those 9/11 terrorist weren’t real Muslims but had “hijacked” and “warped” true Islam.”
This false claim is what sociologists would call “impression management “to protect the image of Islam.
That false claim is also Muslims engaging in the Islamic doctrine of Taqqiya which is the idea that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam.
Therefore, those murderous and destructive jihadists on those jet planes on September 11, 2001 were actual devout Muslims who were engaging in non- watered down Qu ‘ran based Islam with its violent and deadly jihad 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.
Bonni says
Absolutely right!!! ALL muslims Should be considered extremely dangerous because ALL muslims ARE terrorists. Muslims plan to conquer the world by deceit (pretending they are nice, etc). Muslims were taught to act kind and nice and to always “prepare”* for an easy slaughter. The only thing that differs among muslims is that we do not know WHEN these muslims will decide to act (kill). THEN, these muslims will now be called an extremists by non-muslims. What a joke. WAKE up America/world!!!
*quran
Walter Sieruk says
With this nineteenth anniversary, September 11, ,2001, of that murderous Islamic terror attack which was a sin unto God, a heinous crime against humankind and an hideous affront against America it should be then known that this primary author of the Declaration of Independent, Thomas Jefferson, had wisdom which may apply to the USA in the year 2017 of a secure and safe America that is well worth remembering
As Americans we should and must remember that for the United States to continue as a great power in the world in spite of the current threats of the Islamic terrorism by jihadist /Muslim terrorists who are operatives of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other jihadists of other similar jihad terror entities. Americans then should have Vigilance, Conviction and, of course, Fortitude.
As one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” and “A conviction that we are right accomplishes half the difficulty of correcting wrong.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had also stated “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.” So in other words we , as Americans ,should have learned keep moving on strongly with Vigilance, Conviction and Fortitude.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning this nineteenth anniversary of the abominations which occurred on September 11, 2001, it’s therefore very appropriate to site the wisdom of the first Constitutional President of the United States of America, George Washington, who had, so well explained “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” Moreover President Washington stated that “However pacific the general policy of the nation may be ,it ought never be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.”
Furthermore, with this post- 9/11 USA it should likewise be remembered that one very good way to defeat the jihadists who compose the many brutal and deadly Islamic terror entities ,such as al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, is by the means of a very strong power of US military might. As Thomas Jefferson had declared “With every barbarous people …force is law.”
Aussie Infidel says
Mohammed Atta told Flight 11 passengers, “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.”
Just like his namesake, Atta was a liar and a murderer, and obsessed by the need to control others.
“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit’.” (Bukhari 4:52:269).
“Jihad is a communal obligation for all Muslims… a war to establish the religion.” (Reliance of the Traveller o9.1).
gravenimage says
Remembering 9/11 in a Woke Year
What do the heroes of September 11 mean in a year of hating police officers?
The 19th anniversary of 9/11 has been the nation’s darkest in this dreaded cycle.
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All grimly true from Daniel Greenfield.
I know that I will always remember, and never submit–no matter how many believe that we should.
James Lincoln says
Interestingly, gravenimage, I don’t remember seeing any “De-fund the Police” signs on September 12, 2001 – while the 9/11 terrorist attacks were fresh in everybody’s minds…
gravenimage says
*So true*, James.
abad says
Islam is the most violent religion to ever exist on earth.
9/11 – Never Forget.
God Bless America.
Walter Sieruk says
The nineteenth anniversary of those insidious and murderous Islamic terror affronts which occurred on September 11, 2001 were the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam.
All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth.
This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Bonni says
YES! , this is the truth. These facts bonnyNEED to be known to all. Thank you!!!!!!!
a158701 says
Prophetic Quranic Fulfillment Of 9-11-2001
Alif, Lam, Meem. The Romans (Americas) have been defeated (September 11, 2001).
In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome. (In Iraq)
Within three to nine years. (2007-2011) To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice (in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Etc.)
In the victory of Allah . He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
[It is] the promise of Allah . Allah does not fail in His promise, but most of the people (the Americans and Europeans)do not know.
They know what is apparent of the worldly life, but they, of the Hereafter, are unaware. (The Kufar)
Do they (the Secular American Leaders) not contemplate within themselves? Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them except in truth and for a specified term. And indeed, many of the people, in [the matter of] the meeting with their Lord, are disbelievers.
Have they (The Muslim Believers From around the world) not traveled through the earth (to the US, Latin American, Europe and Australia) and observed how was the end of those before them? They (the Muslim Believers) were greater than them (the unbelieving Americans) in power, and they (the Umma) plowed the earth and built it up more than they (So called Christian Americans) have built it up, and their messengers (The Dawa came to the ignorant Americans and Europeans) came to them with clear evidences. And Allah would not ever have wronged them, but they were wronging themselves.
Then the end of those who did evil (all the kufar) was the worst [consequence] because they denied the signs of Allah and used to ridicule them. (The Danish press in 2005).
Allah begins creation; then He will repeat it; then to Him you will be returned.
And the Day the Hour appears the criminals will be in despair (by Sharia Law)
Orthodox Radical Islam came to America to defeat us and the rest of the rest for world Islamic Conquest. 50 days later is their next holiday Eid Al Kufar (The Day of Spoils Oct 30th) to take over after Eid Al Kufar Sept 11
gravenimage says
I see that this vile Jihadist is gloating over his vicious coreligionists murdering almost 3000 innocent people on 9/11.
How is this unhinged savagery “Merciful”? Pious Muslims use language differently from decent people.
Abd note that he considers murdering thugs “greater” than good people who don’t murder people. This is orthodox Islam.
He doesn’t consider murdering innocent people to be doing evil–but not murdering people *is*. This is Islamic “morality”
Sick, sick stuff. Don’t these “defenders of Islam” realize that they are just exposing the savagery of their foul creed to decent people?