Twenty-three years later, we now have at least two generations who were not alive during the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. While time inevitably moves forward, the fact that these generations exist without the experience and embracing an uneducated apathy towards threats to our Republic should be very concerning.Honestly, I am not blaming these generations (Gen Z and Gen Alpha) for their lack of knowledge of the attacks. They weren’t born yet, and in the case of some o...
Twenty-three years later, we now have at least two generations who were not alive during the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. While time inevitably moves forward, the fact that these generations exist without the experience and embracing an uneducated apathy towards threats to our Republic should be very concerning.
Honestly, I am not blaming these generations (Gen Z and Gen Alpha) for their lack of knowledge of the attacks. They weren’t born yet, and in the case of some of the older members of Gen Z, they were too young to remember. Just like those not alive during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, it is impossible to understand the terror, vulnerability, and uncertainty that accompanied the attacks.
What I can lay at their feet is this. In an age of immediate access to information and the in-depth documentation of the day’s events – and the events shortly afterward – there is no excuse for not understanding the threats posed by Islamofascist terror groups and their nation-state sponsors.
Further, there is no excusing their ignorant and uneducated support of the Hamas terror group (under the misguided and erroneous concept of supporting the Palestinian people) – a US State Department-designated terrorist organization, as support seen on college campuses across the nation and at the Democrat National Convention.
The Lie Of Islamofascism
But even then, I can’t lay all of the blame at their feet. The blame, in large part, has to be assumed by the mainstream media and the politicians who rushed to insist that Islam is a “religion of peace.” Not only was that false narrative espoused by the President of the United States and congressional leaders, but the pundits and potentates of the mainstream narrative machine thumped that nonsense into our heads 24/7/365.
Our elected leaders embraced the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an authority on all things Islam, including their insistence that Islam is a religion of peace, only to see that organization adjudicated to be an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holyland Foundation terrorist money laundering scheme. Yet, the mainstream media and the elected class continued to give weight to an organization that was obviously practicing al-taqiyya.
Al-Taqiyya is an Islamic principle that allows Muslims to conceal their true beliefs or intentions under certain circumstances. Some Sunni and Shia scholars have interpreted this principle to permit lying or dissimulation in situations where a Muslim feels threatened or when it serves the interests of advancing Islam.
This leads me to two overarching points as we recognize the 23rd anniversary of the attacks. First, it took me less than a minute to gather information about al-taqiyya from a first source that cited the Quran, Hadith, and Surrah, complete with quotes from noted Islamic scholars. So, those who genuinely want to access the truth about any and all things Islamic don’t necessarily have to do anything but make the effort.
But second, and more importantly, our elected leaders and educational institutions – completely delinquent in their mandated obligation to accurately educate the populace and student bodies, using facts and truth devoid of opinion and conjecture – deliberately deceived the American people and the people of the free world about the conquest-based objective of Islam as laid out in the Quran and Hadith: to establish a totalitarian, global Islamic caliphate to rule all the world.
This rationale for establishing a global caliphate is at the core of the philosophies of the Islamic State, al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hizbul-Mujahideen, and the mullahs of the terrorist-financing nation sate of Iran. And, with regard to Hamas, its charter – officially known as the “Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement” – several passages call for the elimination of Israel as an immediate priority with the establishment of an Islamic state in its place.
Again, finding first-source information on the Hamas charter took less than five minutes. Yet, our elected class and those who have hijacked academia refuse to be honest about the aggressive nature and intentions of conquest, all because they want to pander to a growing Muslim demographic in the United States for ideological and political purposes.
Facing The Truth
Perhaps, if our elected officials were honest about the totalitarian nature of the Islamofascists’ targeting of the free, maybe if those in academia didn’t find a vehicle in their affinity towards Islamofascism to achieve Marxist goals, Gen Z and Gen Alpha would be more empathetic and sympathetic to the horrors that befell the American people on September 11th, 2001.
Yes, it isn’t easy to comprehend the anguish, uncertainty, and feeling of vulnerability in the face of the one-day slaughter of 2,977 people (2,753 people, 343 of whom were firefighters at the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 individuals on Flight 93 outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania) unless you experienced the day. But it isn’t unreasonable for those who went through it – directly or from afar – to expect you to try.
2,753 families who were whole just 24 hours before were permanently shattered in those fateful minutes, some leaping to their deaths from atop one of the world’s tallest buildings to escape a literal Hell on Earth. To put that into a relatable perspective, that number equated to the populations in 30 percent of all the small towns in the United States. Imagine an entire small town being wiped off the face of the Earth in just minutes.
Then, of course, there are the people who, while others were running away from the terror, willingly chose to run into the danger. 343 New York City firefighters, 24 New York City police officers, and 37 Port Authority officers kissed their families goodbye that morning, not knowing their loved ones would never see them again. Their lives came to an abrupt end as 1.8 million tons (about 3.6 billion pounds) of debris crushed them to death, squeezing the lives out of them; mangling their bodies so that, in most cases, there was nothing left of them for the loved ones to bury.
So, in the age of instant information, there is no excuse for not knowing the truth about the dogma that facilitated those murderous events, a dogma that is currently fueling violence and discontent across the Middle East, and a dogma that is quietly metastisizing across the globe.
In the age of instant information, there is no excuse for being ignorant of the loss many of our fellow Americans suffered on that day – some dispatched and some surviving these who were dispatched.
And in the age when all of this information is there for the taking, there is absolutely no excuse for the ignorant far-Left pontificating about their hatred of our country (and first responders) even as they lionize Islamofascist terrorists as “the resistance” and “freedom fighters – there is no excuse.
They have no clue. No clue at all.
Additional Credits, with thanks and gratitude:Portions of the film production provided by Caleb Garraway of Remnant Ministries”Superman” written & performed by John Ondrasik
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