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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Ten Years After
(Do I really need to say that this won't be about Alvin Lee et alii?)
I've received a fair amount of email this past week, inquiring about whether I planned to write something on the tenth anniversary of Black Tuesday: September 11, 2001, when Islam openly declared war on the United States. Yes, I said Islam, not "terrorists," "extremists," or "fundamentalists." We have it on the authority of a head of state -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey -- that there is no "moderate Islam;" there is only Islam. Any number of imams, mullahs, ayatollahs and so forth have said the same -- and have proceeded to justify the atrocities of Black Tuesday as a response to the "humiliation" Muslims have endured at America's hands.
What humiliation? Daring to rise and progress out of the seventh century. Proclaiming a doctrine of individual rights beyond what their scriptures allow. Treating persons of all races, sexes, and faiths as possessing a perfect right to be as they are and believe as they do. Letting women read, drive, and go about in attractive clothing, unaccompanied by a male chaperone.
We "humiliate" Muslims and Islam by being Americans: believers in freedom, a secular state, and an objective rule of law and justice.
No doubt you've read all those sentiments here at Eternity Road several times before today. They're not new. Why should they be? The underlying conditions from which they emerged haven't changed. Nor have my own values or my perspective on the matter. So why have I bothered to repeat myself?
Bide.
The reason I write, on this topic or any other, is simple: I'm trying to influence your convictions. Whoever you are, wherever in the world you reside, you come here in part because what you read here resonates with your core values -- the fundamental moral premises you bring to your analyses of what you see around you. You might disagree with the specific policies and priorities I and my Esteemed Co-Conspirators advocate on certain issues, but you agree with our core values: the things we cherish and deem worthy of defense and perpetuation.
This is worthy of some large red letters:
If you're a person of wholesome values and rational mind, you were as outraged about Black Tuesday as I was -- and you remain so, as I do. If we differ at all, it's in what would constitute the appropriate responses, short and long-term, and the enduring stance America ought to take toward the perpetrators, their enablers, their apologists, and their co-religionists.
Needless to say, even among men of good will, that's a wide spectrum of opinion. What I'm here to do, today and every day, on this and every subject of public import, is to pull your opinions toward mine. Anyone who writes op-ed is trying to do the same.
Yes, that "should be obvious." It is obvious. But the Latin roots of "obvious" still mean overlooked.
What has America done in the aftermath of Black Tuesday?
- We've created a "security state," which has peered deeply into our private lives and hobbled our travel patterns in several ways;
- We've dispatched our armed forces to topple two Middle Eastern regimes;
- We've accepted into our nation tens of thousands of Islamic "refugees" from all sorts of foreign hellholes;
- We've endured all sorts of propaganda about how Islam is a "religion of peace;"
- We've tolerated (whether or not we've acceded) numerous assertions of Islamic privileges by Muslims in this country;
- God help us all, we elected Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency, from which he's done his damnedest to weaken our defenses, alienate our allies, and demonize our country for daring to fight back.
How much of that resonates with your core values, or meets the requirements of your analysis of this war, Gentle Reader?
We are at war with Islam, and have been since Iranian "students" stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, took 52 Americans hostage, and kept them for 444 days.
Don't bother to argue with me about this. Either we are or we aren't. If we aren't, the evidence for the proposition demands a better explanation than any I've heard. Worse, there's no objective evidence that we aren't, and no Islamic apologist has dared to present any.
But we're not fighting that war. We're acting, in large measure, as if some other force were responsible for the crimes and atrocities committed in Islam's name. We're acting, in other words, as if Islam and Muslims generally are the victims rather than the cause and the perpetrators.
Why?
In part, it's because of the barrage of propagandization we've received about Islam, about American "imperialism," and about our duty to "tolerate" this totalitarian creed. Like it or not, people's attitudes and unconscious assumptions are shaped by the Legacy Media even today. They see, hear, or read a "news report" and accept it as undiluted, unpolluted fact. They read a bit of op-ed from some eloquent columnist with whom they agree on less weighty matters, and they accept his rendition rather than performing their own. They hear persons whom they admire, and whose good opinion they crave, declaim in this or that fashion, and they accept it and parrot it back to him for no better reason than their need for his approval.
And in part, it's because we've become uncomfortable with the concept of evil. We simply dislike the idea that there are persons in the world whose ultimate aim is our subjugation or destruction. And since it's an abstraction, not represented by any individual we have close at hand, we scowl and shrug it away.
Got a hot flash for you, sports fans: There is evil in the world. Now and then it's codified into a creed and set down between book covers. The Communist Manifesto. Mein Kampf. The Koran. Those who embrace such a creed are embracing evil.
Yes, it's a Christian's part to hate the sin but forgive the sinner and pray for his repentance. But it's a free man's part to fight the evildoer with all his power -- especially when at the end of the contest, one of you will be dead, and the other free to go on as he's done.
We are at war with Islam. We've been at war with Islam for forty-one years. Let's get serious about it.
Yes, I'm trying to influence your opinion. Yes, I want you to analyze and respond to events as I do. Yes, yes, yes.
Does that invalidate my argument, or any aspect thereof?
Try reading this concise report on Muslims' behavior in Western countries to which they've been admitted. Try rationalizing its evidence against any other conclusion than that Islam is an aggressive program of totalitarian conquest of the world, with a few theological trimmings as protective coloration.
Try imagining how "tolerance" for such a creed could eventuate any other way than in mass slaughter of the "tolerant" and the subjugation of the survivors.
Never forget.
Comments
Fran, you have given me at least enough of a push to, if nothing else, amplify on what you have said. That you have continuously had the forthrightness to address the real evil behind what took place ten years ago today. And call it by its right and proper name. Says as much about the strength and courage of your character, as it does about those who refuse to acknowledge we are “at war”, much less correctly identify the malignancy we need to rally against.
I have read elsewhere, some would claim that the enemy has won, producing a number of points with which to argue their cace. I might concede we have “lost the battle” (especially considering what the current administration is doing, or hasn’t done, in addressing our advisories). However, the “War” is not over yet. One battle, in and of itself, does not necessarily end the conflict or provide an ultimate victor. I believe we still (as a nation, along with the remnants of the Western Civilized world) not only have the moral obligation to wake up and conduct this as a war against that which seeks to remove us, our culture, morals, and history, from the face of the earth; but that we have, given enough back bone (testicular courage?) at our command, the right and proper tools in which to get the job done.
Never Forget, Never Surrender!
Posted by Guy S. on 09/11/2011 at 11:57 AMGreat article, Fancis, and spot on as usual.
I’m glad you found my “concise report” useful. I have often referred to the original article but felt it needed just a little tidying and highlighting of certain aspects. Posting it on the 10th anniversary of 9-11 seemed expecially appropriate.
God bless.Posted by Kris K on 09/12/2011 at 03:18 AMIt would be useful to expand on what kind of war we are in. Is it a war of extermination, of hearts and minds, one of those exhausting pre-westphalian affairs that dragged out for lifetimes and everybody in the 2nd and 3rd generation forgot why they were fighting, just that it was the thing to do and had been all their lives.
I agree that we are at war with Islam. We are just as much at war with the devil. It does not need to be a war of extermination. In fact, I think that our enemy’s best argument is that we are in a war of extermination against him. We need to wedge, divide, and offer as many people on the other side a clearly marked exit as possible.
Posted by TMLutas on 09/13/2011 at 03:25 PMDan Simmons dates the start of the war back to the assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968.
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Posted by Oswald on 09/14/2011 at 12:01 PM
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