My latest in PJ Media:
Saturday marks twenty years since Islamic jihadis attacked New York City and Washington, and the establishment media is doing all it can to ensure that Americans grasp the true significance of those attacks: not that America was hit by a global jihad that has only gained in strength since then and could hit us again, but that Muslims were and are the true victims of that fateful day. In the last few days, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press have published lengthy pieces to that effect, and more in this vein is certain to come this week.
The LA Times on Friday published a lengthy weeper entitled “Muslim youth in America: A generation shadowed by the aftermath of 9/11,” all about how some people say rude things to innocent Muslims just because some people did something way back two decades ago. The article begins: “On a rainy day during her sophomore year of high school, as Aissata Ba studied in the library, a photo popped into her phone. It showed a beheading by Islamic State militants, along with a caption in red letters: ‘Go back to your country.’” In the big bad, “Islamophobic” USA, the perpetrator of this horror got off scot-free: “Ba reported the incident. Administrators never tracked down the person who sent it.”
Then there was “the boy in sixth grade who would say ‘allahu Akbar,’ Arabic for ‘God is great,’ and throw his backpack near her, pretending it was a bomb.” Actually, “Allahu akbar” means “Allah is greater,” that is, greater than your god; it is a declaration of the superiority of Islam and its victory over other religions, which is why Islamic jihadists so often scream out this phrase while committing acts of violence against unbelievers.
But the Los Angeles Times doesn’t explain any of that; it’s too busy explaining how Muslims are the true victims of the 9/11 attacks: “Asked when they thought such incidents became common, the Ba family didn’t hesitate. ‘It started with 9/11,’ said Ba’s mom, Zeinebou, who immigrated to Chicago in 1999. That day in 2001 caused a chain of tragedies — for the nearly 3,000 people who perished during the attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania; for the young men and women who died serving their country in the wars that followed; and for Muslims, and those perceived as Muslim, who became targets of hate.”
It would be much easier to sympathize with all this if not for the fact that since 9/11, Islamic advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), with eager help from the establishment media, have insisted that any honest investigation of the motivating ideology behind the attacks, and jihad terror in general, constituted “hate.” Then there are the numerous fake anti-Muslim hate crimes, fabricated apparently in order to buttress the claim that Muslims are uniquely harassed and victimized in the United States.
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
In the Run-Up to the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Pushing Stories About How Muslims Were the Real Victims
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Yes–we are seeing more and more of this bogus tripe. Just sickening and utterly false.
And there is a new film out about 9/11–as one might expect. But what is it about? The evil Jihad terrorists? Brave civilians and first responders?
Nope.
It’s about…insurance. No sh*t. It has an all-star cast, but could not be more clueless about the big issues surrouning 9/11.
This is how far we’ve fallen in dealing with Jihad terrorism…
The only good film I’ve seen on 9/11 is the truly excellent “United 93”. See it if you can.
There isn’t much else.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I think that the new Netflix film is called “Worth,” starring Michael Keaton, based on the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
https://www.looper.com/592285/why-camille-from-worth-looks-so-familiar/
gravenimage says
That’s it, James. And it may indeed be a good film.
I’m just saying that this is a peripheral issue *at best*. Rather like a movie about WWII that doesn’t mention the Nazis but is all about VA Benefits.
James Lincoln says
Agree, gravenimage.
gregbeetham says
I watched United 93 and the overthrow came close to succeeding because the Jihadi’s panicked and supposedly dove the plane into the ground on purpose but of course doing that wasn’t the objective so I am of the opinion that the inexperienced pilot made a mistake and pulled back on the control column in error in a reflex action after realizing they were close to the ground.
But you don’t pull back on the control column to climb if you are upside down, you push forward.
(or roll left or right and then pull back).
gravenimage says
Greg, the brave passengers of United 93–many from my own neck of the woods here in the San Francisco bay area–clearly saved many more lives by trying to wrest control of the plane from the hijackers. The Jihadists were likely headed for the Capitol Building or the White House.
Wellington says
Definitely seconded, gravenimage.
I have been to that locale in Somerset County, PA, the highest land in all the state, actually in Stoney Creek Township and not the borough of Shanksville near by, and the brave passengers (“let’s roll”) prevented a far greater tragedy by their own sacrificial heroism.
N.B. the evil pilot on that day deserves nothing, just as Islam deserves nothing, and he was thwarted in his malevolent (but oh so Islamic) plan because of the heroism of many of the passengers on that very dark day in American history, COMPLETELY due to the continued existence of the worst religion of all time.
gravenimage says
Wellington, I am not surprised you have visited the memorial site. I want to go there some day as well.
Of course, I truly wish that the passengers had been able to gain control of the aircraft–but this was too much to hope for.
That the winning design for the memorial was named the “Crescent of Embrace” and had Islamic imagery is appalling–luckily there were complaints and it was changed.
I agree about Todd Beamer’s brave “Let’s Roll!” as a rallying cry.
gregbeetham says
Absolutely, I think the movie depicted events very well and the target was probably the White House which was prevented from happening by the actions of the passengers, I have no doubt the terrorists wouldn’t dive into a field if they could have made it to the target and there is only one reason for that outcome and it was due to what the passengers did, whatever that actually was.
The remaining possible scenario is that the brave passengers had actually forced the door open and got onto the flight deck which caused the terrorists to panic and roll the plane over into a dive, but alas we will never know for sure; I would like to visit the memorials also to pay my respects.
Infidel says
Graven, when I lived in Sunnyvale, my ophthalmologist was the uncle of one of the Flight 93 passengers, and had a pic of him and his family at his reception desk. I’ve not met him ever since I left California, so I just hope that he’s doing well, given what the state of California has become under the Brown-Newsome era
Wellington says
Interesting point, gregbeetham, but that is assuming the error you mentioned occurred, which might have.
In any case, damn Islam. All of it.
gravenimage says
Look at this crap:
“Silent Victims: The Plight of Arab & Muslim Americans in Post 9/11 America”
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Victims-Plight-Americans-America/dp/1418410551
No mention of the *real* victims of 9/11–and when have Muslims ever been silent in their fake victim-mongering?
Wellington says
Yes, gravenimage, sickening. Cry me a river for the poor dears. Muslims in America should reflect upon how non-Muslims have it in Muslim lands—but they won’t.
gravenimage says
+1
Ivor Mectin says
https://rumble.com/vm9990-america-is-no-longer-proud-of-who-we-are.html
gravenimage says
Grimly common–and not just the US, but the whole of the west.
James Lincoln says
Ivor,
Excellent link – Steve Bannon’s War Room with special guest Srdja Trifovic.
Short video, all should watch.
Infidel says
Srdja Trifkovic is a great person – right up there w/ RS, Gordon Chang and some of the other great analysts of our time. Glad that Bannon connected w/ him: hopefully, Bannon takes on not just the Chicoms but the jihadists as well
Maemae77 says
The Qur’an literally sanctioned what happened in that horrid day and muslims around the world cheered after it happened and they still do on social media. Muslims also spread propaganda deflecting the blame away from their ideology by spreading wide spread propaganda about Jews. Why? Because they hate Jews.
gravenimage says
Yes, Maemae–that Muslims would cheer the attacks of 9/11 yet so often also claim that they were perpetrated by the hated Jews to make Muslims look bad of course makes no sense at all.
Jim says
It is rather odd. Christians seem to blame themselves for the Islamic jihadist and for things like crime on the streets. Muslims think they are the victims when Jihadists make an attack on the West. They never seem to think they should feel guilty of what their coreligionists do. They do not think they might better abandon Islam if it comes to such bad things. Just denying that jihadists are Muslim does not do the trick of absolving them of guilt, since supporting Islam also supports jihad, insofar as defending Islam means defending the scriptural verses that justify jihad, and are used by jihadists in defense of their crimes.
gravenimage says
True enough, Jim. Christians–and cultural Christians–generally try to take responsibilty for their shortcomings. This can actually be a healthy thing, and allows for progress to be made on both personal and societal issues. But this can also be taken further, where the West wallows in unearned guilt for things they are not responsible for at all.
Then pious Muslims never feel guilt (shame, sometimes, but not guilt) and do not take personal responsibility.
Put these two groups together and it is not a good thing–Muslims constantly work Christians and Jews and consider their compassion and self-criticism weakness. This is what we are seeing now.
Hank says
The chicken or the egg?
The faithful of Islamic doctrine adhere to, swear by, and live by it (Islamic doctrine – divination, lying wonders and dictates from an Arab in the 6th century)
The faithful basically follow the dictates of the doctrine and commit vile acts (FGM, necromania, pedophilia, Taqiya lying, Jizya extortion, et al.) and violence against non-Muslims (Jihad, suicide bombings, ramming airplanes and passengers into buildings, ramming trucks into crowds, passing candies and rejoicing at all the destruction, inventing new forms of evil, et al.)
The faithful complain of being a victim as a result of acts initiated by the faithful themselves who are merely following the dictates of the same Islamic doctrine the victim adheres to, swears by, and lives by. (911, et al.)
The faithful flee (Migration jihad) from a doctrine they and the Taliban, ISIS, et al, follow (Muslims fleeing Islam??) and migrate exclusively to non-Islamic host countries (with the blessings of naive leaders) taking the Islamic pathogen and the old hatred with.
The faithful carry the Islamic pathogen with and continue to adhere to, swear by, and live by the same false doctrines of occult divination as at the beginning. Somewhere along the line the dormant pathogen activates in the host (Marathon bomber, et al).
Repeat….
End result: extreme, severe Islamization and expiration of non-Islamic host nations.
Moral ending: Muslims by the billions need to: renounce, cast out, flee in disgust, come out clean from false Islamic doctrines. In short get rid of the Quran and Hadiths. Muslims in non-Islamic countries need to stop importing and surrounding themselves with “Teachers” of hate using manuals of hate (Quran and Hadiths) that fill them with hate. Finally, Muslims need to read the basics of good moral character and conduct and wisdom. Start with the basics and read the “Ten Commandments 101” handed down by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to Moses. Then work your way up the ladder from there. It will be like going from midnight to daylight. Forget the nonsense from the 6th century. This SEPTEMBER 11 will be a good time to reflect on this and ask yourself as a Muslim: “What have I done. Am I actually following something demonic?”
gravenimage says
The problem is that Muslims don’t consider Islamization of their host nations to be a bad thing–this is instead the entire goal of Hijirah.
Charlie in NY says
Odd that so many groups on the Left require those Jews who would otherwise support them to publicly abjure their support of Israel as a condition to acceptance. Yet, those same groups would never for a second consider requiring any Muslim supporter at any point to publicly condemn jihadist and other Muslim fanatics. The irony is that while the jihadists’ actual if delusional goal is the destruction of the West and creation of a worldwide caliphate, Jewish world domination is an evil fantasy not of any Jew but of the antisemite. .
gravenimage says
Spot on, Charlie.
OLD GUY says
Muslim’s are victims of Islam and the phony Muhammad. Other than that they are guilty as charged.
scherado says
A wolf acts like a wolf. I might shoot the wolf, but I’m not going to spend time complaining that the wolf expressed it’s nature.
David says
The Hamburg cell was also a pretty good movie if I recall surrounding the leadup to 9-11.
gravenimage says
Thanks, David, I’ve heard about this film but have not seen it. I’ll look for it.
Still, it is amazing how little there has been.
There was also the book and movie “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” about a boy dealing with the loss of his father in the World Trade Center–but this is another movie where the attacks themselves are almost peripheral to the story.
joan_of_ark2005 says
I can’t believe that so many people STILL believe it was muslims, who caused 9/11!
gravenimage says
Ah, yes–more denial. Is joan_of_ark2005 here claiming it was the evil Joooos? Perhaps more specifically Mossad? Other favorites are George Bush and the owner of the World Trade Center, who supposedly did it for the insurance money. (He’s also Jewish, so he’s a twofer). Never any explanation on this one how the attack on the Pentagon fits in…
But joan_of_ark2005 has said this sort of thing before. Does she also think that all 39,000+ Jihad terror attacks *since* 9/11 are also the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’? I don’t think she’s ever said…
gregbeetham says
Yes the Arabs who were on those planes were taken prisoner by the Jewish passengers who then overpowered the flight crew and forced them to fly into the WTC and the Pentagon, how could anyone think those nice Muslims would do such a thing.
Infidel says
Difference is that in 2001, we didn’t have Ilhan and Rashida in Congress. Only vote against going to war in Afghanistan was Barbara Lee of the East Bay: every other Dem realized how suicidal it would be to be opposed to retaliating for 9/11
To this day, I blame Bush. Had he at least refused to give cover to muslims and islam, we’d probably be as hostile to islam as we are to racism
gravenimage says
Yes, Infidel–Islam has grimly made huge inroads into the west in the past 20 years. George Bush swallowing “Islam is a religion of peace” sure as hell didn’t help–but he has not been the only or the worst western leader to believe this whitewash. He sure as hell set a disastrously harmful tone, though.
Infidel says
I do believe that had President Bush formally blamed islam, other Western leaders, like Tony Blair, would have gone along w/ him. Instead, the bulk of them, w/ the possible exception of John Howard in Australia, became full time apologetics for islam, and same is true of the bulk of Republican congressmen
somehistory says
Glenn Beck had a special on last night. He showed snippets of his interview with a young man who was in one of the towers and survived; he spoke with “America’s Mayor,” about that day and what happened afterward, and he showed some photos of people visiting NYC on Sept. 10.
He spoke about the 13 who were killed by the mozlum bomber in afghanistan and pointed out how they were all in diapers 20 years ago. ( I believe some of them were not yet born 20 years ago) and that the young people today don’t really understand how much the world has changed since that day.
I recall photos and film of mozlums in the ME cheering and passing out candy while watching the towers fall.
If any mozlum is a “victim” of that day, it is something they brought upon themselves.
Victimology…the study of victims of crimes…where a person lives, how old, how rich, where they travel, where they shop, how they spend their time…like wearing an expensive watch or jewelry while walking in a high-crime area, leaving expensive purchases in plain sight, leaving a car unlocked, esp if the keys are visible, …
mozlums spend their time lying, scheming, threatening, whining, mooching, complaining, planning, and moving where they will have the **freedom** to spread their filthy ‘way of life,’ with its rape, murder and all forms of terror.
Those who make the claims that mozlums are the *true* victims of that horrible day, don’t know a blooming thing about victimology. mozlums are not the “prey”…they are the “predators.”
And it has been proven time and again that they lie, pulling hoaxes in efforts to get sympathy and privileges they don’t deserve.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Muslims tend to be such sanctimonious phonies.
gregbeetham says
You forgot the lying sacks of shit part.
tim gallagher says
I find it amazing how, apparently, we non-Muslims are supposed to cop all the terrorist attacks, and all the other bullshit we get from Muslims,(rape gangs, etc) and yet we are not supposed to get mightily pissed off with the Muslim scum. How bizarre would it be if plenty of us didn’t wake up to islam and Muslims and hate the evil, barbaric load of crap, islam. I think we generally treat Muslims far too well. I prefer to avoid trouble and have a peaceful life, so my approach is to keep Muslims out of all our countries. There might be a few good Muslims around, but islam is a clear enemy of all of western values. It is the approach taken by Hungary and the other Visegrad bloc countries. As for this crap where the main victims of the 9/11 attacks are the Muslims, I have never heard such a complete load of bullshit. It is the usual whingeing, whining bullshit from the Muslims and the media who help promote such crap are traitorous scum.
Walter Sieruk says
On the early morning of September 11, 2001 the 19 jihadists of the Islamic terrorists network, Al Qaeda were about to carry out that jihadist scheme to hijack some jet planes to use them as missiles for mass murder and destruction of jihad attacks.
Those 19 jihadist/Muslims in their Islamic delusion firmly believed that after they died in their jihad attacks for the cause of Islam as “martyrs” in those murderous Islamic terror attacks they would then immediately go to an Islamic paradise with many virgins, houris,. Each large group of houris for his individual use only. With is type of wedding to them in a forever sex- filled marriage to them.
This belief is based on the teachings and doctrine of the Qu’ ran and the Hadith. This belief is not only absurd but it’s also a false teaching based on a false doctrine. This is known because Jesus taught ‘Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.” Matthew 22:29, 30. [K.J.V.]
Furthermore, the Bible warns against accepting and believing in religious story/ doctrines, no matter how enticing they might be. For the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables….” First Timothy 1:4.
In addition, such a lust –filled fable /doctrine and the deluded men who would believe in it was predicted the Bible. For the Bible informs its reader in Second Timothy 4:3, 4. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
In great contrast to the religious fiction of such a fable /doctrine that has deceived many jihadists into engaging in suicide/homicide attacks, Christians have the reality found in Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made know unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…”
Walter Sieruk says
On September 11, 2001 those murderous and destructive and deadly jihad attacks by jihadist/Muslims of al Qaeda were not acting 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 jets planes as missiles as those jihadists did on 9/11 do does ,tragically , make a much 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.
Walter Sieruk says
After the news reach the world about the mass murder and destruction that occurred by that vicious jihadists attacks in America which occurred September 11, 2001. Many Muslim were happy and even celebrated that murderous affront carried out by those jihadists of al Qaeda.
There are some good, decent but naïve Westerners when discovering about who those Muslims were actually glad about those horrendous happenings on 9/11. Some of those Westerners might be shocked and then stop and wonder and ask “How can those people, being so very religious, be so happy and glad about those deadly atrocities of that day ?”
The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible informs its reader that there are some men who are very callous, cruel, unfeeling and heartless because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.]
In this specific case that “hot iron” is Islam.