THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 187, September 10, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THEY DESTROYED MY TOWERS!
By Alan Caruba
THE PROPOSED GROUND ZERO MOSQUE AS AN EXERCISE IN ISLAMIC TRIUMPHALISM: A DEMONSTRATION OF
WHAT LIES AT THE VERY CORE OF ISLAM, THE ARROGANCE & CONTEMPT THAT MUSLIMS HAVE FOR AMERICANS,
WESTERNERS, & ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIMS -- ISLAM AS A RELIGION OF THE SWORD, WITH ITS BARBARITY ON DISPLAY ON
A DAILY BASIS -- AN UNDEFEATED & DEADLY ENEMY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST: AL-QA'IDA & ALL THOSE WHO
SUBSCRIBE TO ITS INTENT TO DESTROY THE WEST, THE CIVILIZATION DEVELOPED IN THE WEST, & THE FREEDOMS
CHAMPIONED BY THE WEST -- NEEDED IN ALL WESTERN CAPITALS: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP KEENLY AWARE OF THE
THREAT WE FACE & DETERMINED TO DEFEAT & DESTROY ISLAMISM
FULL STORY:
Whenever I drove into New York via the Lincoln Tunnel, I would join the other cars on the long, graceful curve leading to
its entrance and, looking to my left, I could see across the Hudson River. At the tip of Manhattan, the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center stood as symbols of America's economic power.
On occasion, I had dined in Windows on the World, a restaurant located on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower
and marveled at the panorama of New Jersey on one side, the outer boroughs on the other, and the dazzling view of
Manhattan.
Whenever I think about September 11, 2001, I have only one emotion and that is a deep, unrelenting anger that a group of
murderous, suicidal Islamists destroyed “my towers.”
They killed some 3,000 people when you factor in the attack on the Pentagon along with the passengers of the four
commercial airliners used to perpetrate the destruction.
It is a wonder to me that Americans then and since exercised such restraint, such tolerance that the nation’s small
population of Muslims not only did not suffer attacks, but today continue to build mosques for worship.
The effort to build one so close to Ground Zero demonstrates how obtuse and out of touch the political leadership is with
mainstream Americans. The odious behavior of New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg is beyond comprehension. The
President tipped his hand at a White House dinner held to celebrate Ramadan, backing away slightly the following day,
doing so enough to deflect criticism.
Those proposing the Ground Zero Mosque demonstrate the arrogance and contempt for Americans and for all
“unbelievers” that lie at the core of Islam, but American leaders of varying religions have fallen over one another to
excuse this exercise in triumphalism.
The Crusades from 1095 to 1291 were an effort to recapture the Judeo-Christian holy land from Muslim conquest. Having
invaded Spain in 711, Muslims would rule for seven centuries, until driven out of their last stronghold, Grenada, in 1492.
In 1683, Muslims were decisively defeated near Vienna. How different Europe would have otherwise been.
Islam is a religion of the sword, despite its widespread acceptance. Its barbarity is on display on a daily basis, whether
killing Christian missionaries in Afghanistan or Israeli civilians, a pregnant mother, her husband and their two children a
week ago.
A sane society would have cleared away the rubble of 9/11 and rebuilt the Twin Towers, but Ground Zero, in terms of
new structures nine years after the attack, remains barely begun
Al-Qa'ida and all those who subscribe to its intent to destroy the West, the civilization developed in the West and the
freedoms championed by the West, remain to be defeated, while they continue to threaten India and even Europe once
again.
The further we get from 9/11, the dimmer the embers of anger become for those with short memories or no grasp of
history.
The irony is that 9/11 reflects the long memories of many Islamists whose religion demands that all lands formerly
conquered in the name of Islam be regained and that all people who follow a faith other than Islam be reduced to dhimmi,
second-class citizens ruled by Muslims.
The World Trade Center belonged to the world. They were my towers and your towers. They represented a world bound
together in trade, a world that set a value on all manner of goods and commodities, a world in which jobs and wealth were
being created.
The World Trade Center represented a rational world.
Today, nine years later, the dispatches from the Middle East, from Afghanistan, the Palestinian enclaves, from Pakistan,
from Yemen and from an Iran bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, are filled with news of an irrational, dysfunctional
society -- an Islamist rat’s nest, still seeking to destroy Israel, and still testing our borders and defenses in order to
destroy America.
It is a good day to get angry once more, to resolve that we and the West shall not be defeated.
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© Alan Caruba, 2010
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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The Islamist Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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