Thank you for stating this out loud. It needs to be said. We should have shut down all immigration after 9/11 to any and all countries that Islam is promoted and praised. We need to export all of its "followers" and shut it down in the United States. It is NOT an American value, anymore than communism or socialism.
The most idiotic PM (a close second to the last one) in canada said "Muslim values are canadian values." Which ones? Women have no rights other than those granted by their fathers or husbands? A woman raped should be stoned for having had sex outside of her marriage? Children are the property of their fathers? If your female family member disgraces you...you may kill her without consequence? And always a cdn favorite (I guess according to the PM), kill the infidels.
As a 72 year old Flemish BE grandma I would like to applaud you.
You are absolutely, completely spot on with your article. BRAVO!
The same mentality of tolerant submission and fear of being labeled as extreme right racist, spreads here in BE too, like an epidemic. We are urged not to show any sign of islamophobia. Or even use any sensitive word concerning the religion of peace.
The Flemish are cowards. Beer drinking, football watching cowards. Whatever portion of the population that had brains or guts left Flanders ceturies ago with the Flight of the Intelligentia. The poor and the weak stayed behind. And these days, most of these Flemish descendants don’t give two hoots about anything as long as it does not affect them personally.
I have tried to warn my son and his 3 almost adult children about the islamic threat and the disastrous future that is ahead, but they just won’t listen. They watch the mainstream media and grandma is a conspiracy theorist. About everything.
So be it.
But I will not shut up. And as you, I have always refused to write islam, mooslim and satan without capitals. Just to show my disgust.
I am too old to stand up and fight but I will not be silent.
I pray for your protection, that God may bless you, encourage you and keep you in His mighty right hand.
Difficult to add to such an excellent editorial, but there may be even another historical angle to the muslim attacks---why they attacked on September 11, when the same flights went out every day.
September 11 was the day in 1697 muslims still mourn their defeat at the closest they came to advancing into Europe, at the battle of Zenta in present day Hungary. The muslims have a dangerously long memory for their aggression being countered.
But, I did “visit” New York in July 2002. Almost one year after 9/11. I was at work at the time when this atrocity/mass murder took place. One could not stop watching it no matter how horrific it was.
When I visited New York in July 2002, I went strait to Lower Manhattan, Ground Zero. Cement divider walls with chainlink fencing surrounded the burial ground where two towers fell with thousand(s) of innocent victims fell/jumped into and around. Women. Men. Children. Age unlimited. Too many. But unfortunately, the filth that caused this were a part of that sacred ground. (It should have been sifted for the filth that caused this, separated and thrown into the sewer with all the weewee and pooh…a fitting burial for pieces of crap).
I looked at this crater in the earth. Still pieces of metal and concrete sticking laying there. Men with their big moving and digging machines, moving and digging. NYPD and NYFD heroes had tables set up asking for donations for families. I talked with one for a few minutes. He told me that remains (bones?) were still being found on the roofs of surrounding buildings. How sad is that?
New York…some of you have forgotten. Some of you are new to New York and it’s pffft! Wake up! Don’t let Mr Sandman erase it from your mind.
To all of those who lost a loved one or friend or coworker in this horrible mass murder, I’m sorry. I offer my big Texas heart to give you a big Texas hug. To those who worked tirelessly to find everyone, alive or gone, thank you! To those who suffered from and passed years later, from the effects of the poison in the air at that time, rest easy. To the search and rescue dogs…thank you and I hope you got a big treat after. To those search and rescue dogs who have passed …run free and healthy across the rainbow bridge, and thank you.
My Texas heart still hurts. My American heart still grieves. Remember.
If an essay about September 11 can be humorous, this one is -- it's good, biting, precisely honed humor.
We're in trouble. For two days, reading reminiscences and engaging in my own -- I knew four who perished that day -- I have been near or in tears for all we've lost. And for what we have now: Zohran Mamdani, who's gearing up to incite riots against Netanyahu next week at the United Nations. As if our cops need that. Or us.
“Too tired and too angry to pull punches when we should be sharpening swords.”
What a great line, I thought. But then you blunted it.
“Metaphorically, of course”
You pulled a punch. Muslims are a crude, pragmatic people; they don’t appreciate metaphors. They don’t bother with metaphorical swords, metaphorical airliners filled with metaphorical people hijacked and flown into metaphorical skyscrapers, metaphorical backpack bombs, metaphorical truck bombs, metaphorical vehicles driven into metaphorical crowds of metaphorical innocents, metaphorical mass migration, metaphorical long-marches through metaphorical institutions.
It's what people say when, what they are hearing is just noise, endlessly repeated, and drivel. Nazi atrocities rightly vilified an entire ideology...a cult, a "religion" if you will. Not every nazi committed horrific acts, but they supported it, enabled it, therefore deserve vilification. Why should islam get a pass? It harbors, enables, and foundationally supports the thinking and world view of terrorists. It's tenets are barbaric and antithetical to American culture, American life/lives. Truth is truth, namby pamby wishy washy political correctness enables and runs cover for a death cult that hates with a conviction so complete there is no act to barbaric to contemplate, justify and carry out. And when those "peaceful" muslims can be radicalized, activated and motivated in a moment, they are a danger to everyone their religion has told them are the enemy. To ignore that it's naive and dangerous.
You have every right to condemn the perpetrators of 9/11. What you do not have the right to do is turn the crimes of extremists 25 years ago into a justification for hatred toward an entire religion and everyone who follows it.
You keep telling people to “never forget” 9/11. Fine. But remember what happened without turning grief into racism.
Twenty-five years have passed since 9/11, yet you speak as though the entire Muslim world is still on trial for something committed by a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are still living through destruction, displacement, and mass civilian suffering in a conflict that is happening now.
If your argument is that innocent people should not be collectively blamed for the actions of others, then apply that principle consistently. You cannot mourn thousands of innocent Americans while treating millions of innocent Muslims as if they are responsible for terrorism committed in their name.
And no, condemning Hamas, ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, or any other armed group does not require hating Islam. Just as condemning the actions of the Israeli government does not mean hating every Jewish person.
You say the first step to defeating evil is identifying it. Then identify it accurately.
Terrorism is terrorism. War crimes are war crimes. Killing civilians is wrong regardless of the religion, nationality, or political identity of the people responsible.
You don’t defeat hatred by replacing one form of collective blame with another.
... by your logic, members of the kkk shouldn't be looked down on just because a few of their believers hung, murdered, and harassed non white folk. So, you believe the non violent members should be allowed their beliefs...no matter that those beliefs justify and might inspire action at any moment?
That comparison is embarrassingly flawed. The KKK is an extremist organization built around racial hatred and violence. Muslims are not members of one organization simply because they share a religion.
You’re taking the actions of extremists, assigning them to an entire religion, and then pretending that your assumption is evidence. That isn’t logic it’s prejudice dressed up as reasoning
If you want to criticize Islam, criticize actual teachings and evidence, not imaginary intentions you assign to millions of people.
I agree and like the straight-forward talk. Interestingly, I also refuse to capitalize islam or muslim. My real awareness of islam began in 1979 when I found myself deployed to the Gulf of Oman because of the American hostages in Iran. (Yes, I’m old).
I'm also a New Yorker who lost people in those towers. My daughter was born 10 days prior to 9/11 and I was getting ready for her first newborn appointment when her Father called and told me to turn on the TV. They cancelled her appointment that day and it's a day that brings me to tears even today
On 9/11 my office was one block north of the World Trade Center on the corner of Murray and West Streets. I lost at least 26-friends and colleagues that day that I know of and I will never entertain the historically false idea that Islam is "a religion of peace".
Reality can be painful if one chooses to prefer fantasies and the notion that Islam can somehow coexist with Western culture or the Constitution of the United States is a fantasy of the first order. We in America are in the early stages of the classic Islamist strategy of domination...infiltrate, overpower, dominate, rule.
Today 57-nations, most formerly Christian, have succumbed to Islam's ideology of conquest. To prevent the US from becoming number 58 serious people must push the effete intellectual losers like George Bush and Kathy Hoekel aside and keep America focused on the existential threat that Islam represents. There is no viable alternative. CDE
Thank you for stating this out loud. It needs to be said. We should have shut down all immigration after 9/11 to any and all countries that Islam is promoted and praised. We need to export all of its "followers" and shut it down in the United States. It is NOT an American value, anymore than communism or socialism.
The most idiotic PM (a close second to the last one) in canada said "Muslim values are canadian values." Which ones? Women have no rights other than those granted by their fathers or husbands? A woman raped should be stoned for having had sex outside of her marriage? Children are the property of their fathers? If your female family member disgraces you...you may kill her without consequence? And always a cdn favorite (I guess according to the PM), kill the infidels.
It’s true, effectively.
As a 72 year old Flemish BE grandma I would like to applaud you.
You are absolutely, completely spot on with your article. BRAVO!
The same mentality of tolerant submission and fear of being labeled as extreme right racist, spreads here in BE too, like an epidemic. We are urged not to show any sign of islamophobia. Or even use any sensitive word concerning the religion of peace.
The Flemish are cowards. Beer drinking, football watching cowards. Whatever portion of the population that had brains or guts left Flanders ceturies ago with the Flight of the Intelligentia. The poor and the weak stayed behind. And these days, most of these Flemish descendants don’t give two hoots about anything as long as it does not affect them personally.
I have tried to warn my son and his 3 almost adult children about the islamic threat and the disastrous future that is ahead, but they just won’t listen. They watch the mainstream media and grandma is a conspiracy theorist. About everything.
So be it.
But I will not shut up. And as you, I have always refused to write islam, mooslim and satan without capitals. Just to show my disgust.
I am too old to stand up and fight but I will not be silent.
I pray for your protection, that God may bless you, encourage you and keep you in His mighty right hand.
Please keep up the good work!
Sincere greetings from a grandma in BE,
Magda Goossens
Godspeed!
Difficult to add to such an excellent editorial, but there may be even another historical angle to the muslim attacks---why they attacked on September 11, when the same flights went out every day.
September 11 was the day in 1697 muslims still mourn their defeat at the closest they came to advancing into Europe, at the battle of Zenta in present day Hungary. The muslims have a dangerously long memory for their aggression being countered.
I’m not a New Yorker. Born a Texan.
But, I did “visit” New York in July 2002. Almost one year after 9/11. I was at work at the time when this atrocity/mass murder took place. One could not stop watching it no matter how horrific it was.
When I visited New York in July 2002, I went strait to Lower Manhattan, Ground Zero. Cement divider walls with chainlink fencing surrounded the burial ground where two towers fell with thousand(s) of innocent victims fell/jumped into and around. Women. Men. Children. Age unlimited. Too many. But unfortunately, the filth that caused this were a part of that sacred ground. (It should have been sifted for the filth that caused this, separated and thrown into the sewer with all the weewee and pooh…a fitting burial for pieces of crap).
I looked at this crater in the earth. Still pieces of metal and concrete sticking laying there. Men with their big moving and digging machines, moving and digging. NYPD and NYFD heroes had tables set up asking for donations for families. I talked with one for a few minutes. He told me that remains (bones?) were still being found on the roofs of surrounding buildings. How sad is that?
New York…some of you have forgotten. Some of you are new to New York and it’s pffft! Wake up! Don’t let Mr Sandman erase it from your mind.
To all of those who lost a loved one or friend or coworker in this horrible mass murder, I’m sorry. I offer my big Texas heart to give you a big Texas hug. To those who worked tirelessly to find everyone, alive or gone, thank you! To those who suffered from and passed years later, from the effects of the poison in the air at that time, rest easy. To the search and rescue dogs…thank you and I hope you got a big treat after. To those search and rescue dogs who have passed …run free and healthy across the rainbow bridge, and thank you.
My Texas heart still hurts. My American heart still grieves. Remember.
If an essay about September 11 can be humorous, this one is -- it's good, biting, precisely honed humor.
We're in trouble. For two days, reading reminiscences and engaging in my own -- I knew four who perished that day -- I have been near or in tears for all we've lost. And for what we have now: Zohran Mamdani, who's gearing up to incite riots against Netanyahu next week at the United Nations. As if our cops need that. Or us.
So thanks for the article. I "enjoyed" it.
Well said. A 7th Century Death Cult
“Too tired and too angry to pull punches when we should be sharpening swords.”
What a great line, I thought. But then you blunted it.
“Metaphorically, of course”
You pulled a punch. Muslims are a crude, pragmatic people; they don’t appreciate metaphors. They don’t bother with metaphorical swords, metaphorical airliners filled with metaphorical people hijacked and flown into metaphorical skyscrapers, metaphorical backpack bombs, metaphorical truck bombs, metaphorical vehicles driven into metaphorical crowds of metaphorical innocents, metaphorical mass migration, metaphorical long-marches through metaphorical institutions.
9/11 was real. The victims were real. Terrorism is real.
But using the crimes of extremists to justify hatred toward an entire religion isn’t “strength “ it’s lazy, ignorant bigotry.
Condemn terrorists. Condemn their crimes. But stop pretending that 1.8 billion Muslims are responsible for what a handful of extremists did.
a sword is not an argument, and hatred is not an excuse for your intellectual laziness
Blah, blah, blah.
“Blah blah blah” isn’t a rebuttal It’s what people say when they have no argument.
It's what people say when, what they are hearing is just noise, endlessly repeated, and drivel. Nazi atrocities rightly vilified an entire ideology...a cult, a "religion" if you will. Not every nazi committed horrific acts, but they supported it, enabled it, therefore deserve vilification. Why should islam get a pass? It harbors, enables, and foundationally supports the thinking and world view of terrorists. It's tenets are barbaric and antithetical to American culture, American life/lives. Truth is truth, namby pamby wishy washy political correctness enables and runs cover for a death cult that hates with a conviction so complete there is no act to barbaric to contemplate, justify and carry out. And when those "peaceful" muslims can be radicalized, activated and motivated in a moment, they are a danger to everyone their religion has told them are the enemy. To ignore that it's naive and dangerous.
I could not agree more; great article exposing the truth about islam.
I wasn’t born in NY and came after 9/11–9/11 was very traumatic
You have every right to condemn the perpetrators of 9/11. What you do not have the right to do is turn the crimes of extremists 25 years ago into a justification for hatred toward an entire religion and everyone who follows it.
You keep telling people to “never forget” 9/11. Fine. But remember what happened without turning grief into racism.
Twenty-five years have passed since 9/11, yet you speak as though the entire Muslim world is still on trial for something committed by a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are still living through destruction, displacement, and mass civilian suffering in a conflict that is happening now.
If your argument is that innocent people should not be collectively blamed for the actions of others, then apply that principle consistently. You cannot mourn thousands of innocent Americans while treating millions of innocent Muslims as if they are responsible for terrorism committed in their name.
And no, condemning Hamas, ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, or any other armed group does not require hating Islam. Just as condemning the actions of the Israeli government does not mean hating every Jewish person.
You say the first step to defeating evil is identifying it. Then identify it accurately.
Terrorism is terrorism. War crimes are war crimes. Killing civilians is wrong regardless of the religion, nationality, or political identity of the people responsible.
You don’t defeat hatred by replacing one form of collective blame with another.
... by your logic, members of the kkk shouldn't be looked down on just because a few of their believers hung, murdered, and harassed non white folk. So, you believe the non violent members should be allowed their beliefs...no matter that those beliefs justify and might inspire action at any moment?
I disagree.
That comparison is embarrassingly flawed. The KKK is an extremist organization built around racial hatred and violence. Muslims are not members of one organization simply because they share a religion.
You’re taking the actions of extremists, assigning them to an entire religion, and then pretending that your assumption is evidence. That isn’t logic it’s prejudice dressed up as reasoning
If you want to criticize Islam, criticize actual teachings and evidence, not imaginary intentions you assign to millions of people.
I agree and like the straight-forward talk. Interestingly, I also refuse to capitalize islam or muslim. My real awareness of islam began in 1979 when I found myself deployed to the Gulf of Oman because of the American hostages in Iran. (Yes, I’m old).
I'm also a New Yorker who lost people in those towers. My daughter was born 10 days prior to 9/11 and I was getting ready for her first newborn appointment when her Father called and told me to turn on the TV. They cancelled her appointment that day and it's a day that brings me to tears even today
Darks you really need to know history!
You really need help and to read a bit
On 9/11 my office was one block north of the World Trade Center on the corner of Murray and West Streets. I lost at least 26-friends and colleagues that day that I know of and I will never entertain the historically false idea that Islam is "a religion of peace".
Reality can be painful if one chooses to prefer fantasies and the notion that Islam can somehow coexist with Western culture or the Constitution of the United States is a fantasy of the first order. We in America are in the early stages of the classic Islamist strategy of domination...infiltrate, overpower, dominate, rule.
Today 57-nations, most formerly Christian, have succumbed to Islam's ideology of conquest. To prevent the US from becoming number 58 serious people must push the effete intellectual losers like George Bush and Kathy Hoekel aside and keep America focused on the existential threat that Islam represents. There is no viable alternative. CDE