The War on '9-11'

The New Media Journal ^ | Sept 14, 2009 | Dr. Walid Phares

[NewMediaJournal]

The jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country's national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history.

But 9-11 became also a benchmark to other nations and regions of the world. In Europe, Russia, and India, civil societies began identifying the date 9/11 with their own subsequent traumas. Madrid had its own 9-11 on March 11, 2004. Russia had a sister horror on September 6 of the same year in Beslan. London encountered its 9-11 on July 7, 2005. The rest of Europe prepared for the forthcoming "ones." India's two Mumbai attacks are perhaps the equivalent of their own 9-11.

So what is the first meaning of this symbolic date, deeply embedded in the minds of millions of people around the world? Despite the denial by intellectual elites in all of these countries (at least since the end of the Cold War), there is a jihadi global movement espousing terror as a means, seeking violence against what it perceives as kuffar countries, and making no room for international law.

[Responsibility2nd]

Good article, but.....

It mentions very little about Obama’s War on 9-11 as he seeks to divert our attention away from the evils of Islamo-facists who want to destroy our Country and instead Obama wants to turn 9-11 into some National Day of Service.

As in we need to atone for our past mistakes.

[La Lydia]

...note that Hollywood didn't produce the expected gigantic movies on the single most important event in America's national security since 1941. "Flight 93" or "The World Trade Center" are good as parts of a series, but should not be the only movies on this cataclysm. There has been no movie that shows and analyzes Bin Laden and his lieutenants' discussions of the attacks, that goes back in historical background about the jihadi war against democracies, and that explains what were the motives, to help Americans understand their future. As Hollywood excels in, when it wants to teach.

Indeed. Where is the "China Syndrome" of what happened on 9/11? Why has Hollywood refused to depict what is going on, what Islam is up to, what it has in store for us? For that matter, why has TV not addressed this dramatically many times over? I know of only one program, a two-episode Miami CSI, that has addressed Islamic terror straightforwardly for what it is.

[crazydad]

Actually the best movie about jihadist was a comedy with puppets... Team America.. Trey and Matt had no qualms for calling the jihadist what they are. Cowards...
America FU— Ya!