Imam Rauf's World Trade Center Conquest Imagery

Andrew G. Bostom   "The Call of Azan from the Rubble of the World Trade Center: Islamic Da'wa in the Heart of America Post-9/11"."The recent solemn tenth anniversary of the acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001, juxtaposed to such triumphal Islamic imagery, should remind us forever of Rauf's conquering mentality, notwithstanding his false, if treacly and oft-repeated claims of "ecumenism"."

The azan is the muezzin's call to prayer. It consists of a number of sentences repeated several times: "Allahu Akbar," the Shahada (la ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasoul Allah - "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger") and the phrase "Gather for prayer." It is noteworthy that, in the period of Muslim conquests in the first centuries of Islam, this call was made from newly conquered sites.....

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Mosque site picked for 'iconic' value;  Compares situation to al-Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem   "The idea here that will be widely understood is that this mosque is another triumphal mosque, another victory mosque [like] the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Temple Mount and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus," Spencer told WND today."

I cannot express how much distaste there is for me in the World Trade Center memorial site; it is a monument to victory for Islamic radicals. They can admire the two gaping holes at the site and proudly proclaim "we did this!" Then they can walk down the street to the triumphal mosque for prayers to Allah.

I like the Pentagon; the way it was immediately restored to the way it was. It said to the murderers, "see how little your deaths meant? It is as if it never happened!"
But then they built the memorial to the flight path of the hijacked plane and now the Islamists have another trophy to show off.  TD

GOP novice wins Weiner's old N.Y. House seat

This vote was seen as a vote on Barack Obama  "It was a heavily Jewish district, and some are suggesting that Obama’s cavalier treatment (mistreatment) if Israel is coming home to roost."

Obama's Israel policy seen as factor that cost him House seat  "The race was supposed to be an easy win for Democrats, who have a 3-1 ratio registration advantage in the district.
"A number of voters who spoke to the New York Times said that the Israel issue played a major role in their decision to support Turner, who was repeatedly critical of Obama on the subject of his policy towards Israel."  Via Drudge.

Democrats have held the seat since March 1923 

Obama's CHICKENSSSSS...have come HOMMME...to ROOSSST! 

Via JustOneMinute:  Rebuking Obama  "“New Yorkers put Washington Democrats on notice that voters are losing confidence in a President whose policies assault job-creators and affront Israel,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) in a statement after Turner’s win."

Ridiculous NY-09 spin: “It’s a very difficult district for Democrats”

“I am a registered Democrat, I have always been a registered Democrat, I come from a family of Democrats — and I hate to say this, I voted Republican,” said Linda Goldberg, 61, after casting her ballot in Queens. “I need to send a message to the president that he’s not doing a very good job. Our economy is horrible. People are scared.”  

Five Quick Lessons from NY-9 ; Obama’s unpopularity wasn’t the only factor. 
This National Review article discusses the following:Candidates matter.
National security matters.
Marriage matters.
Obama remains a liability for Democrats.
Republicans should not ignore New York.

From the Collins Report:   The Democrats’ “chickens have come home to roost”

10 Years Later: 9/11 Ticket Agent Let Hijackers Board b/c “I’m Not Prejudiced”

Debbie Schlussel  "One of real lessons of the 9/11 Islamic attacks on America continues to go unheeded because so many Americans would rather die or sacrifice their fellow Americans’ lives, rather than be accused of prejudice. "....
"And while the ACLU files lawsuit after lawsuit every time a Muslim gets a paper cut or breaks a nail."
....

They seem so nice.

"Remember, political correctness–especially PC pandering to Muslims–kills. It didn’t just kill 3,000 Americans on 9/11. It killed plenty before and plenty since, including the 13 murder victims of Islam at Fort Hood.

"Sadly, the U.S. Government contradicts itself in its absurd message. On the one hand, it tells us, “if you see something, say something.” But, then, it tells you that if you say something, you are prejudiced against “innocent, peaceful Muslims.” Don’t believe it."

 DOROTHY RABINOWITZ :  A Dark Day's Enduring Life   "A note about CNN's "Footnotes of 9/11," which takes up the subject of people who are mentioned in the "9/11 Commission Report." They were part of the history of the day, if peripheral figures, though in one or two instances they emerge as more. One of the more memorable of the eight subjects here is the Dulles Airport ticket agent who checked in two of the hijackers—Middle Eastern men whose look and demeanor immediately raised his suspicions. The agent followed the men, he reports, then stopped himself from alerting anyone. He didn't want to be accused of prejudice, of harboring suspicions because of racial feelings. A vignette from a footnote—but one that has much to tell about some of the underlying reasons for the ease with which the hijackers were able to board the planes and fulfill their murderous mission."

Israel Remembers 9/11

United with Israel  " Israel remembered the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on Sunday with a memorial at the 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem.
"“September 11th, to quote former U.S. President Roosevelt is ‘a date which will live in infamy,’” said Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, speaking at the event. “Even 10 years after the horrendous terror attack, we are still shaken to our core by the enormity of this heinous and cowardly act.”"



9/11 anniversary: across the Islamic world opinion is against the militants   "One key factor in the rejection of militant extremism from Morocco to Malaysia appears to be the proximity of violence. In country after country, support for Osama bin Laden, for al-Qaida's methods or for violence against civilians, relatively high when the attacks occurred thousands of miles away, declined steeply when militants struck at home."....

"One of the most dramatic examples of this shift of opinion happened in Jordan: before the hotel bombings in Amman, in November 2005, support for suicide bombing (outside Israel-Palestine) stood at 57%, according to Pew; that declined to 12% by 2009, dropping by more than half in the months after the hotel attack."

The American people can handle the truth about Obama’s phony jobs bill

Legal Insurrection  "There is a good reason Obama did not unveal his jobs bill prior to his jobs speech.
It’s because the jobs bill is not a jobs bill, it is the tax increase Obama has been hoping for since he was a candidate, taking $400 billion from people making $200,000 or more (couples making $250,000 or more). Had Obama released the plan, all the talk surrounding the speech would have been about the tax increase, the opposite of what the Axelplouffe message machine wanted.
"What Obama misleadingly calls a jobs bill literally takes $400 billion from the demonized “top 2%” over 10 years to give to almost everyone else now, a pure redistributionist plan. There is some revenue taken from oil companies and corporate jet owners (yes, that’s in there), but that is just political cover, a relatively small percentage of the total tax increase, as this chart shows:"

"Pass this bill!"

The Mark of Zero

http://terrellaftermath.com/

http://legalinsurrection.com/

 

The uninvited guests of 9-11

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/glennfoden

Some American heroic moments

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chipbok

NY Times’ Krugman Attacks Rudy, Bush and Conservatives in Vile 9/11 Blog Post

Paul Krugman

Big Journalism  "Paul Krugman has used his New York Times blog to attack Rudy Giuliani and President George W. Bush this morning in a most disgusting way:"

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te (sic) atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Paul Krugman’s Shame   "Al Qaeda poured an immense amount of capital into the campaign in Iraq, including money, philosophical underpinnings and personnel. Their writers went to work trying to justify suicide as a legitimate form of jihad, they spent a large amount of the monies donated by wealthy Saudis on Iraq, and they lost thousands of fighters who would otherwise have been able to fight in Afghanistan or come to the shores of the U.S. And I don’t buy the notion that Iraq was their raison d’être. I believe that they would have fought us anyway, anywhere.
"Iraq was a quagmire for al Qaeda." ...

The lack of a conscience of a liberal   "The man with a liberal conscience (his self description) who, with no proof whatsoever, instantly blamed the Republicans and the Tea Party for the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and the murder of six others is at it again."....Ethel C. Fenig

History's Smallest Monster How the New York Times's star columnist commemorates 9/11.   ""Everybody's angry, to judge from my email, about Paul Krugman's typo-burdened 9/11 screed," writes Glenn Reynolds. (For at least 15 hours after Krugman posted it, the screed referred to "te atrocity.")
"Reynolds offers some advice: "Don't be angry. Understand it for what it is, an admission of impotence from a sad and irrelevant little man." Indeed. That post was monstrous, but it was trivial in equal measure. Paul Krugman is history's smallest monster." JAMES TARANTO

The Real Hero of 9/11 "The attacks on 9/11 separated the real heroes from the fake heroes.
:The Fake hero who comforted the grieving and raised a nation’s spirits:


All the Wrong 9/11 Lessons; What our schools teach — and won’t teach — about September 11, 2001.    " A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Blame America-ism still permeates classrooms and the culture. A special 9/11 curriculum distributed in New Jersey schools advises teachers to “avoid graphic details or dramatizing the destruction” wrought by the 9/11 hijackers, and instead focus elementary school students’ attention on broadly defined “intolerance” and “hurtful words.”

 "No surprise: Jihadist utterances such as “Kill the Jews,” “Allahu Akbar,” and “Behead all those who insult Islam” are not among the “hurtful words” studied."

"Anniversary" of 9/11. Really?

Neal Boortz "... the Quran still says that when a Muslim meets a non-believer he has three basic choices; convert him, enslave him or destroy him.  I’m sorry if that’s politically incorrect (like I care) but the Quran still says it and many Muslims still believe it.  Islam is a religion on the ascendency, and across the world when Muslims reach a certain percentage of the population the darker side of the religion emerges."
....
"It seems absurd that political correct[nes]s prevents us from recognizing and identifying an enemy that is still dedicated to our destruction. We may well end up paying for this in ways much more traumatic than 9/11."  Emphasis added

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

More on 9-11 and the response of liberals (Updated and link repaired)

Boo, Hillary!  From soon after Sept, 2001;  "Nobody would expect either of the Clintons to stand up and admit that they've deliberately endangered their country for personal gain. One might have hoped, however, that seeing thousands of innocent people murdered by terrorists would have made Senator Hillary eager to cooperate with the present administration, to do some of the things that she and her husband had declined or neglected to do. That's not what America saw, however, during President Bush's speech to a joint session of Congress on September 20th. Almost every member of either party was visibly enthusiastic in support of the president ... but not Hillary. The grimace that was fixed on the former First Lady's face made it clear that the woman who had hugged Mrs. Arafat could not bring herself to be an ally of a Republican president, even against the sworn enemies of the United States."

"And why by the way did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? ”  Ward Churchill  (pictured at right)  "I have included in this essay photos of clippings from the New York Times to illistrate the true American humanity of those that Prof. Churchill has defamed and slandered repeatedly. I have kept these papers since they were published and never had the heart or the courage to read them. For this post I at last read about those who were murdered on 911 and saw a clear common thread that ran through their lives."  

Phyllis Chesler:  What to Say to the Totalitarian Left on 9/11/11;  The definitive take-down for all who blame America first.  "And let me ask them a question: Why are you publishing non-feminist and anti-feminist work in a feminist journal? Is it because the so-called feminist has been born in Tanzania, is a “South Asian” Muslim feminist “of color” and thus, can do no wrong because she is not “white”?"

How Harvard Remembered 9/11   "At Harvard, the theme was — you guessed it — “Islamophobia.” "

From BareNakedIslam:  Graphic and terrible (link repaired)

Michelle Malkin:  All the wrong 9/11 lessons  "Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth." ....

"In second grade, her teachers read touchy-feely stories about peace and diversity to honor the 9/11 dead."....

 "Yet, many of the same protectors of fragile elementary-school pupils can’t wait to teach them all the ins and outs of condoms, cross-dressers and crack addictions."  Emphasis added.

Truther post on Bush's visit to Booker Elementary  Good grief, is there nothing the left will not latch on to to discredit President Bush? Refer to the post about Rosie O'Donnell here.

Charles Krauthammer: The 9/11 ‘overreaction’? Nonsense.  "Our current difficulties and gloom are almost entirely economic in origin, the bitter fruit of misguided fiscal, regulatory and monetary policies that had nothing to do with 9/11. America’s current demoralization is not a result of the war on terror. On the contrary. The denigration of the war on terror is the result of our current demoralization, of retroactively reading today’s malaise into the real — and successful — history of our 9/11 response."

Documentary Shows How WTC Cross Brought Hope After 9/11 Tragedy  "The New York Times reports that David Silverman, president of American Atheists, wants the cross either removed from the museum or for there to be “equal representation.”

"“They can allow every religious position to put in a symbol of equal size and stature, or they can take it all out, but they don’t get to pick and choose,” Silverman said."

Bloomberg Defends Banning Clergy From 9/11 Memorial Service, Cites Separation of Church and State…  "And this is the same guy who has vigorously (to put it mildly) defended the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero."

Our Lord Himself declares in the Scriptures that He does not desire the worship of manmade icons or any likenesses of Himself. The cross can be one of those icons.

The real significance of the cross removal is that it vividly proclaims that America can no longer call itself a Christian nation-if it indeed ever could. We see now how all the foundations underpinning our nation's values and morals are being dismantled and the removal of the cross is but one more manifestation. TD