George Rebane

9/11 was a horrific day in American history, when we were attacked by Islamic religious zealots who willingly sacrificed themselves in the service of their jihad against western civilization and its “Great Satan”, the United States.

A similar surprise attack occurred on 7 December 1941 when Imperial Japan decided to disable America so that it could proceed with the establishment of its ‘Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’ then in progress.  But Japan had no intent to destroy or conquer the United States.

Could you imagine someone in 1942 calling for 7 December to be “a day of charitable service and doing good deeds” in remembrance of “a day that will live in infamy”?  Well the moral and functional equivalent of such an enterprise, called the 9/11 Day Movement, was launched in 2002.  I ran into their half-page ad in today’s WSJ asking “What Will You Do This 9/11?”.

There is no end to the responses they have received from people.  Responses wholly in the vein of “I will let my family know I love them”, “I will volunteer at a child’s school”, “I will plant a tree”, “I will donate my winter coat to help the homeless”, … .  These are not the responses of people who understand what is going on in the world.  These also are not the responses of people who are willing to stand up for anything they believe in – and perhaps it’s that they believe in nothing that is worth defending.

On their website the 9/11 Day Movement invites us to join and leave our own message of what we will do.  My own response is –

I will remind everyone I can that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world who believe that the main impediment to a better life for themselves and their loved ones is the existence of the United States as the exemplar of western civilization.  Also that there are thousands of them who have already sacrificed themselves in service of their faith, and untold thousands more who stand ready to sacrifice themselves in the destruction of America, its values, and its way of life.  And that their demonstrated weapons are terror and colonization.  9/11 is a day of remembrance that evil exists, that it can be identified, and that it is active against each one of us individually.

[12sep12 update]  Our Old Glory is flying at half staff for a second day in honor and memory of the murder of Christopher Stevens, our ambassador to Lybia, and three other Americans on his staff.  This latest of anti-American and anti-western atrocities, committed on sovereign US territory, is a continuing display of Islam’s tolerance for our way of life.  For sure we can expect the usual effete and apologetic voices among us to blame the recent filmakers for insulting their prophet.  But exercising the First Amendment is our prerogative, no matter how egregious it may appear to others.  In America we don’t respond with fire and brimstone, and raze a local mosque every time an insult is delivered against Christianity or Judaism by Muslims.  If we did, there would be little left of America’s Islamic community.

But their ragheads can gratuitously machinegun an entire busload of Christian tourists, and our response here is to ‘regret’ the incident, hold a memorial service, and plant a tree.  These primitives do not respect anything other than our strength and its ready use.  When they see it withheld, even in circumstances that violate and insult our own sense of justice, they know we are a weak and declining civilization, one that does not respect itself, is worthy of humiliation, and invites more forceful attack.

I reprise further thoughts on this first expressed in ‘Of Ragheads and Racism’ as most appropriate at this time.

[12sep12 more update]  A correspondent sent this link to RadicalIslam.org to a piece entitled ‘Bay Area Imam Nabbed With Hezbollah Cell in Mexico’.  As reported here for years, taqiyah is in full swing and most likely operational at a mosque near you.  Its success depends on the density of kafir progressives that serve as Islam’s apologist shield in America.  I am still waiting for reciprocal peaceful demonstrations against the Libya killings announced by our ‘moderate Muslims’ to mirror those of the Egyptian Coptic Christians protesting the anti-Islam film.  Perhaps they have asked the crickets to put out the word.

And to abet my point about the hundreds of millions of anti-American Muslims, Stratfor reports today on the level of widespread hatred of America that “New Islamist governments in North Africa must balance religious credentials with unpopular relationships with the West.”  A more naive person at this point would wonder why the lamestream has not picked up on these two 9/11 reports.