My latest in PJ Media:
On Thursday, the Virginia Department of Education published a video entitled, “Culturally Responsive and Inclusive 9/11 Commemoration,” detailing how Virginia public school teachers should handle the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The emphasis on that day and thereafter must not be on the ideology of the attackers or the ongoing jihad terror threat; rather, the focus is entirely on acknowledging and eradicating what the video calls “anti-Muslim racism.”
The video is narrated by a hijab-wearing woman, Amaarah DeCuir, who describes herself as “Professorial Lecturer, School of Education, American University & Paragon Education Consulting, President.” One would think that with all her expertise, Ms. DeCuir would know the elementary fact that Islam is not a race, and that there are Muslims, and Islamic jihadis, of all races. And of course she does know that, but she is operating in this video on the basis of the Leftist contention that opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women really stems from an irrational animus against Muslims as a people, and hence is a “racialized” form of “hatred.”
Yes, it’s toxic nonsense, but that’s the Left for you. In any case, Virginia public schools that implement DeCuir’s recommendations (and since the Virginia Department of Education published her video, it would appear that the department wants that to be all of them) will give students a presentation on the twentieth anniversary of the worst attacks ever on American soil that will portray Muslims as the primary victims of those attacks, and make herculean efforts to deflect attention away from the extremely inconvenient fact that the attacks were perpetrated in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings.
If you doubt that fact, note that in March 2009, five 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 titled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations.” In it, they called the 9/11 attacks an “act of Jihad,” and explained: “The Jihad in god’s [sic] cause is a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous Qur’an verses, including 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) and another enjoining Muslims to “strike terror into the heart of the enemies of Allah” (8:60).
Attorney and columnist Marina Medvin, who broke the story of this video, notes that the 9/11 Commission Report “mentions ‘Islam’ over 1,000 times and the word ‘Muslim’ over 1,000 times,” for obvious reasons. But Virginia students will learn nothing about any of that. Instead, they’ll be taught about “phobias stemming from 9/11,” “anti-Muslim racism spikes,” and the evils of the fictional “Muslim Ban.” DeCuir offers as an example of “harmful teaching” any “teaching about Islam and/or Muslims” in connection with 9/11, except, evidently, insofar as Muslims were victims of the American response to the attacks.
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gravenimage says
Virginia Public Schools to Focus on Muslims—As Victims—in Teaching About 9/11 On Attacks’ 20th Anniversary
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Just grotesque–but this insanity is becoming more and more common. I have read references to 9/11 where if you didn’t know this was a Jihad terrorist attack that you would instead think is was “Islamophobes” being mean to Muslims.
Amaarah DeCuir on her Twitter page talks about “disrupting anti-Muslim racism when teaching about 9/11”–which presumably means any mention that 9/11 was Jihad terror.
You can find Amaarah DeCuir’s disgusting “training video” here:
https://www.contemporaryislam.org/9-11-teaching.html
Note that not a single Muslim student says they are anti-Jihad terror, or that they think 9/11 was a bad thing. *Very telling*.
She says that there is no one way of experiencing the world–which presumably means that she thinks that applauding 9/11 is just as valid as commemorating it as an atrocity.
She even condemns using the term “terrorist” to describe the perpetrators of 9/11. Clearly she does not consider this horror to be terrorism.
The only “religious extremism” is white supremacism–never mind that “whiteness” is not actually a religion…
And saying anything negative about terrorism is “anti-Muslim bullying”, and any studend who does this is to be called out and punished.
Another thing she condemns is teachers having “solemn expressions” when teaching about 9/11–how *dare* the ‘filthy Infidels’ be solemn about Jihad terror?
Jack says
After 9/11 a Muslim female student complained to the high school principal where I taught that, while comparing 9/11 with Pearl Harbor, I looked at her with hatred and an accusatory expression on my face. I was called to a meeting with the principal, my assistant principal, and the girl. However, the principal defended me and the meeting ended. That was only a month or a couple of weeks after the 9/11 attach and WAS AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN NEW YORK CITY. Now, 21 years later, it seems that “never forget” has morphed into a new slogan: “cheer the terrorists!”
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, Jack. Yes, I’m sure things would be worse now.
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, this confidence trick where Muslims somehow become the “victims” is staggering. Muslims have carried out 40,000 terrorist attacks since the 9/11 attacks and somehow this absolute bullshit where Muslims are the victims happens. I think that it is mainly because of the mindset of many people in our western societies, who seem to view western societies as somehow evil and as something to apologise continually for and, therefore, somehow have brought attacks from Muslims on themselves. The protection racket for islam by so many in the media and politics also is a big a factor. Any criticism of Islam and Muslims, all deserved, keeps getting attacked by many left wing types in the media or in educational institutions. Islam and Muslims are treated far too well, treated with kid gloves, by far too many people.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim. That so many in the west have allowed this to happen is insanity.
livingengine says
One more time, CAIR wants to control what public schools teach about 911. –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCeiQbuZ-RY
maria says
All these schools should be closed and changed the headmasters/headmistresses
Walter Sieruk says
That must be a pseudo public school system because that “Virginia Department of Education” with it’s allowing that politically correct Islamic propaganda video to be shown to those impressionable youngsters.
Shame on those V.D.E . top brass for letting the people of the stealth jihad push the, into accepting that false “education” video on the public schools of Virginia .
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Donovan Nuera says
Then again, the Hiraj mosque in Falls Church, VA a safe haven for some of the hijackers and several trustees are Hamas supporters has not been closed yet. They recruited Anwar Awalaki after 911 as a moderate… before he left to head up AQ of Peninsula.
gravenimage says
Yes–more madness.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Formally shutting down our Western first amendment rights. Sacrificing the many for the few ( mostly Brown Supremacists).
Infidel says
I live in Loudoun County – which y’all may have seen in the news (if you watch Newsmax) for all the parents who have been railing against Critical Race Theory. I’m actually glad that my son isn’t a student in this state, even if it means him being away from me
So now, in addition to CRT, our kids can also be taught that muslims are the victims here? Why don’t they sign up Ilhan ‘Some-people-did-something’ Omar as a visiting lecturer in every county?
Clifford Fodor says
Some day, people are going to be taught that good is good and evil is evil once again.
gregbeetham says
I don’t think those heretical ideas will catch on in this day and age where the loonies are running the asylum.
Hank says
This is Leftist-Green-Muslim Alliance propaganda. The individual devising and planning this kind of Taqiya propaganda needs jail-time.
It is crystal clear that the spirit and inspiration behind the 911 attack is Islamic doctrine. The communique “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations” backed by Quran verses are crystal clear.
For example, the core stubborn issue with 20 years in Afghanistan and other similar areas is Islamic doctrine. Those fleeing Afghanistan are a paradox. Why would Muslims flee the Taliban who are bringing them all the Islam a Muslim could ever want? When Muslims enter non-Islamic host countries the first demand is more Islam and a return to its doctrines. Muslims then import a “Taliban” Imam to lead the local Mosque and teach them and their children more false Islamic doctrine. Sooner or later the Islamic pathogen activates and the Islamized host country has: unsafe cities, no-go zones, rioting and burning, stabbing and beheading of infidels, raping infidels, threats, death to this and that, demands for autonomous Islamic areas in the host country and finally demands for a 2-state solution (one Islamic) and final death of the host country.
Western leaders do not understand the Arab conquest, the nature of Islam, and are pushing the non-Islamic host countries toward civil war.
Jim says
This is a bit like refusing to teach about the Holocaust, because it could stir up racist anti-German prejudices. The Holocaust should be taught as though the socialists were the victims or the Germans were the victims. But of course the Holocaust can be taught without being racist or anti-German. The truth is not racist if it is taught correctly.
Check Burry says
In UK the 1996 or 93, education act stipulates that pupils should be provided with alternate views, at least two, to ensure a balanced picture, opinion can hopefully be formed in the pupils mind, maybe if this law is absent in USA, it is time for President Trump to introduce a way of adding it. I cant see the existing stooge making it happen.
gravenimage says
I doubt very much that this is much pracitced in the UK these days–unless it is whether the west is evil or evil *and* racist…
Spideyweb1 says
Repeat after me children…
ISLAMIC JIHAD’S sole purpose in life is to make all Christians and Jews, mostly white, feel profoundly and deeply ashamed of yourselves.
It’s mass protectionism.. it’s what they know about themselves that makes them feel inferior
Giacomo Latta says
Why do I sense that fireworks and celebrations are going to be the order of the day in Virginia 2021/09/11?
wpm says
Why not the large Islamic community across the Hudson in Paterson New Jersey were celebrating the attacks on 9/11/01 with rooftop parties in the apartment houses they live in with full view of smoke raising in Manhattan when the Towers fell. It was played down in the MSM and President Bush because of the fear that it might trigger up “hate against the Moslem community” .The appeasing to the Moslem community and the importation of more Jihadist to America only speed up over the last 20 years. We now have a President who hands over 82 billion dollars worth of American arms ,to Jihadist, has US troops leaving over a thousand Americans in Afghanistan to be hostages in the next 24 hours.
gravenimage says
+1
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Go to the youtube links and report Both these horrible violent islamic jihad terrorism-supporting videos!
They are already ratioed with more downvotes than ‘up’!!!
JCA Reid says
Oh Yeah! & the Japanese were victims at Pearl harbour!!
john smith says
It’s unbelievable that evil is allowed to flourish this way, because that is what it is.
It was muslims who brought the twin towers down, they were brought down in the name of islam.
TO WHITEWASH EVIL, IS EVIL.
gravenimage says
Spot on, John.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Go to the youtube links and report Both videos as child abuse, thanks!
Rooster says
BULLSHIT….ISLAM IS THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY LIVING IN AMERICA. ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD BE DEPORTED!
fadeye@yahoo.com says
The first youtube link has comments blocked, of course, because they attempt to whitewash violent islamic jihad terrorism…but the second one has Not blocked comments yet!!
Please go to youtube and report BOTH videos as child abuse since they are trying to inject this nonsense into US schools and propagandize school children! & leave a comment on the second one…BOTH are ratioed with more downvotes than ‘up’!!
Thank you!