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“I have been an American Muslim for almost fifty years, and built two ­­­­mosques. At the same time, the old rabbi remains one of the finest mentors of my life. And so, I have given great thought to the question: Why do many Muslims and Arabs so hate Israel and the Jews?” The basis of most prejudices is ignorance. The ignorance of most young children stems from a lack of education, or miseducation. Born into a Roman Catholic family in 1938, I was baptized shortly after birth, took first communion at about age seven, attended Catholic parochial school in first...

  2009 IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial International Association of Fire Fighters honors those who have fallen in the line of duty. No Greater Love... Indebted Never Forget

19 Terrorists vs Millions of Illegal Aliens September 19, 2009 by DC Lee - A Woodward Report Columnist On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists murdered nearly three thousand in a quest to bring the United States to its knees. Today, however, million of illegal aliens are bringing American to its knees in a much different way. They are exploding spending in health care, welfare, education and if steps are not taken soon, they will bring the US economy to the brink of collapse. The United States was created with immigrants poured into a melting pot that made us the envy...

The Shark Guys lay it all out: 10) Spencer and Heidi Pratt:(Excerpts from an appearance on the radio show of Alex Jones , himself a conspiracy theorist and the man behind “The Obama Deception” ): “We’ve been nonstop researching the Internet … for information for at least a month all day every day,” said Heidi. Spencer added: “From your [Jones'] research, it [9/11] 100 percent is [an inside job] … “I want to throw up.” Hube says: The Pratts, living examples of why modern television is the cultural downfall of civilization (they're the stars of "The Hills"), are regular targets...

These pictures depict the Horror inflicted on our Nation on 9-11. They were recently declassified. Many of the scenes are graphic so if you are sensitive you may not wish to view them. I found viewing difficult but necessary.

Tom Burnett Sr. and his wife Beverly did some 9/11 interviews the last couple of days, remembering their son Tom Jr., who was murdered by Islamic terrorists aboard Flight 93. Mr. Burnett has been trying for several years to stop the Park Service from planting a giant Islamic-shaped crescent on the Flight 93 crash site. In their interview with WSAU radio in Wisconsin, the Burnetts were joined half-way through the hour by Alec Rawls (the author of this blogburst post), who has written a book about the terrorist memorializing Crescent of Embrace design. Mr. Burnett's words are always heartfelt,...

On 9/11, the outrage and fear we felt was matched with an equally intense determination to do something. Some signed up for the military, others did acts of charity, and others contributed to the sense of unity and patriotism we all enjoyed basking in but have since long lost. Yet we still haven’t been given such instructions. We were just told to go shopping, an essential act to get the economy going again after the attacks, but one that left us feeling unfulfilled and unrecognized as the valuable assets in the war on terror that we are. As we pass...

On August 8, 2009 a person named Ryan working at "Fromaginations on the Square" called the Madison police to ask if there was a "law in the state of Wisconsin that allows you to carry a gun," reporting that "a gentleman walked past me with a rather large rather large gun attached to his hip . . . he was walking north toward State Street." Replied the police dispatcher, "[n]o there is not . . . let me get someone to check that area to see if we can find 'em because there is no such law here." . ....

"Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart. "Heart of a Soldier" tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it. "One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees to safety because of a...

Whoever coined the phrase "big things come in small packages" had in mind people such as Mai Cong Haworth. Although she stands 4 feet 8 inches tall, Haworth's petite frame houses a towering sense of patriotism and love of country. She proved that on Sept. 11, 2001, as she sat in front of a television set and wept at the carnage and destruction from the terrorist attacks. Over the past eight years, Haworth has altered hundreds of uniforms, stitching on the badges, stripes, name tags and insignias on the uniforms, following exact placement guidelines for the respective branch of the...

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....

Osama Bin Laden PRE-ANNOUNCED the 9/11 attacks 3 weeks in advance, promosing "unprecedented attacks" on the US 3 weeks before 9/11. This is reported at the end of this clip from ABC News, local Channel 7 from Washington, DC, broadcast on the evening of 9/11 2001. Osama Bin Laden promised that Al Qaeda would attack the US in an unprecedented way BEFORE it happened. Not only has Al Qaeda repeatedly and proudly admitted that Al Qaeda planned, funded, and executed the 9/11 attacks on the United States, but Osama Bin Laden announced (admitted) the 9/11 attacks 3 weeks in advance,...

This November, New York voters will vote on a ballot initiative to establish an official government "9/11 TRUTHER" commission with subpoena power and a $10 million a yaer budget from PRIVATE DONATIONS. The wording of the ballot initiative is seductive and low-key enough to win a majority of NYC voters, simply asking "Would you like to find out more about what happened on 9/11?" The ballot initiative does NOT make any accusations or mention any conspiracy theories. Therefore, the ballot initiative is likely to pass. Even those who do not believe in the conspiracy theories will want to know more...

Why did World Trade Cebter Building 7 collapse? This video shows SOME of the damage to World Trade Center Building 7 from falling debris from the collapse of the twin towers. It also shows exacly which building is WTC 7 in photographs, and how close the twin towers were to WTC 7, and how the twin towers towered over WTC 7 and how debris showered down on to WTC 7. Buldiing 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed after 8 hours because it was heavily damaged, and fire raged for 8 hours. This video combines photographs taken by New York...

American support for Israel was the reason for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, according to an audio message purported to be from Osama bin Laden, the leader of the international Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The whereabouts of Bid Laden are not known, and the video image accompanying the audio featured only a still picture of him. The title of the audio was, “Message to the American People.” and was released two days after the eighth anniversary of the multiple aerial attacks on the U.S.

(English-language translation) [Puerto Rico] Governor Luis G. Fortuño ordered that the flags of the United States and Puerto Rico fly at half-staff yesterday in all government departments, offices, and agencies to remember the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Governor's observance was one of several held in the island to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers in New York. Over 2,000 people of different nationalities died on September 11, 2001 in New York when two commercial airliners crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which is...

The last few days left many of us at a loss of words as we recalled the horrors of September 11th, 2001. But while people share stories of tragic loss and hope, pictures and afterthoughts, we still have the 9/11 “truthers” who like to tell us our fellow Americans died at the hands of our own government. Last night’s Red Eye discussed Charlie Sheen, the latest celebrity truther idiot to shoot off his mouth. He recently released a YouTube video demanding both a meeting with the president and a reinvestigation of 9/11: Sheen’s main message: “We want our country back,...

Everyone remembers where they were on that beautiful September morning in 2001, when almost 3000 of our fellow citizens were brutally murdered in the most horrific attack on our country since Pearl Harbor. The memories of that terrible day are forever etched in the minds and hearts of most Americans. The current administration, however, is defecating on the graves of those who lost their lives by diminishing the importance of fighting the war on the radical Islamic forces that would seek to do us harm again. Barack Obama is hell-bent on closing Guantanamo, and bringing the detainees to the shores...

Eight years after the Islamic attack upon America the only thing that has changed is America’s divisiveness. There is still a hole in the ground where the twin towers once stood. There was supposed to be a new Freedom Tower there. It took four hundred days to build the empire state building, yet there is a hole in the ground where the Freedom Tower is supposed to be. Oh, and it will no longer be called the Freedom Tower, it will be called the “One World Trade Center Tower”. “One World”, isn’t that special? Combine this with B. Hussein Obama...

In blind retaliation, we wreaked havoc on Iraq and continue to slaughter peasants in Afghanistan. What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan, as well? How many millions of innocent civilians would we have killed in retaliation? Would we still be a free society, or would then-Vice President Dick Cheney have attained the power of a demented king, having moved on from snooping on our phone calls and outing honest CIA agents to destroying the last vestiges of the rule of law? As assaults...

CINNAMON STILLWELL  Eight years after the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11, it appears that America has largely drifted back into complacency. Certainly, many Americans still understand that the threat of repeated attacks remains real, but the sense of urgency has faded with time. Meanwhile, the country's current leadership and its supporters are inhabiting the willful blindness of a pre-9/11 mindset, if not acting as apologists for and, in some cases, active supporters of America's enemies. Misconceptions that began with the Bush administration continue unabated. There is an inability to grasp that, to quote Robert Spencer, the "stealth jihad," being visited...

NYC based RevolutionMuslim.com has made a 911 statement. In this video Younus Abdullah Muhammad calls America "the world's biggest cancer", and tells his fellow Muslims not to feel bad about the victims of 911. Near the end of the message he says that this is a message of peace.

Al-Fursan Media:: Jihad Recollections no. 4 - <<9/11 SPECIAL>> “The men behind 9/11 and the motives that bound them” September 12, 2009 Posted by admin in : Al-Fursan Media, Books, Jiha�d, Knowledge , trackback

Peace To The Hearts, Minds and Souls Of The People Of Our Country And Their Family's...Effected Directly Or Indirectly From ALL the Events Of September 11th 2001. After Eight Years...There Are Still No Words... That I Can Offer To Express My Heart Felt Thoughts And Emotions. Thank You!! To ALL OUR Brave Men And Women And Their Family's... Who Make America And Keep America! Peace & God Bless You ALL! Dan Iraq's Inconvenient Truth Kurt Wilson’s “Tribute” >>> Go To Page

Okay-- imagine that the week after the worst terrorist attack in world history, in which almost 3,000 of your countreyment were murdered you were in church and the pastor began telling the parishioners that the United States brought it on itself. That we deserved it. That America deserved to be damned by God. Imagine he's saying this, complete with foul language, in front of your young children. He's saying that your country deserved the vicious assault and that your countrymen just got in the way. Wouldn't you punch that pompous asshole in the face?

To the other authors who have done a stellar job of remembrance today, I say thank you. It was a somber walk thru those times, and a moving memorial. Yet on this day mourning the loss of loved ones, revisiting the vunerability we felt, and even the anger that still lives in many of us, there is a spot of good news that may give you a small smile. For the second year running, top jihad sites affiliated with Al Qaeda have mysteriously started exhibiting "technical problems" on the eve of 911, forcing the militants to shut down and lose...

I have a good friend…no, a great friend, who was born and raised in New York City.He’s one of these guys who can live anywhere in the US, but still call himself a New Yorker; it’s like the Hudson River runs through his blood. He lives in Pennsylvania, damned near halfway between Pittsburgh and The City, but you can’t get this guy to look West for a team to cheer, he’s Yankees and Giants and six rings be damned. With him it’s all about Big Blue and The Wrecking Crew, guys with a “T” in their name…Tarkenton, Taylor, and Tittle,...

This is well done. 5 minutes that every American should watch ever September 11.

Three years ago, Julie Fox commemorated 9/11 with her students by asking them to write journal entries recounting where they were when the planes hit and how they felt at that moment. But the Norwell High School social studies teacher has had to retire that assignment. Too few students remember the day, the succession of ever-worsening reports, the horror of the World Trade Center towers cascading into dust, employees fleeing the Pentagon, and investigators combing through the wreckage in a Pennsylvania field. Now, instead, she spends class time on Sept. 11 explaining the basics of what happened that day and...

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Posted on 09/10/2008 10:14:12 PM PDT by doug from upland FOR 9/11 - THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN Many of you lost personal friends on that horrific day. FReepers lost some they knew, but never personally met. We surely miss Battalion Commander John Moran and Barbara Olson. I wrote a parody for Barbara that she saw and commented here on FR that she had posted it on her refrigerator.

Steve’s post below is a must read. A must. The video is supplemental. Never forget. Never

Thane Thompson – 9/11 survivor, Morgan Stanley employee, and Iraq veteran – wrote a first hand account just after his experience on Sept. 11, 2001 in Tower 2. It’s an appropriate read this morning. Never forget.

LET'S NOT LET ANYONE REDEFINE THIS DAY.... September 11th is Patriot Day From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lead a moment of silence on the South Lawn with White House staff and families of victims of 9/11. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and White House staff on September 11, 2009.In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the 2,993 casualties in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)," "September 11th," or some variation thereof....

Yes, this is a vanity, but I seriously want to know the answer to this question: Where was then-state-senator Barack Obama on September 11, 2001? Not looking for a smart-aleck answer. This is a serious question for which I hope there are serious answers.

What can you say on a day like today except: to hell with Islam! It's truly something to be hated. It needs to be destroyed. This rancid, wretched, repellent, reptilian religion should be rudely crudely slam-dunked into the dustbin of history. Today is a day of remembrance. It ought to be a Day of Rage. Today we all quietly reflect. But we ought to loudly retaliate. For the sake of "remembrance," why not knock off a few hundred religious and political leaders in Saudi Arabia and Iran? Then we could quietly reflectively glory in it. The ambitious and loathsome philosophy...

Built into the internet giant Google's marketing identity is the quirky, distinctive way in which it incorporates little symbolic ‘doodles' into its logo on those days it deems socially significant....So what touching, compassionate memorial have these creative denizens produced in tribute to this century's most devastating and deeply felt American anniversary? Nothing. You read that right. Google have apparently concluded that 9-11 is not a date of sufficient significance to warrant a gesture. Michael Jackson's birthday, yes. First hot air balloon flight? They had it covered. But the fatal flight of those four airliners does not warrant so much as...

NEVER FORGET Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

Glenn Beck hates 9/11 survivors. Shocking as it may sound, Glenn Beck claimed that he hates 9/11 survivors. The Fox news personality and media clown has always been an outrageous demagogue, a pied piper to the illiterate, unwashed masses that make up the Fox news audience. Beck's remarks were made on the September 9 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program: you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, "Oh shut up!" I'm so...

Eight years since the twin towers came crashing down, survivors of the ghastly terrorist attack are still picking up pieces of their lives from among the debris of terrible memories. Jyoti Dave Vyas was among those who were inside the majestic World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001, when terror struck and were lucky enough to survive the tragedy. Jyoti was seven months pregnant then. She remembers running down the stairs to safety when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the 78th floor of the South Tower at 9.03 am, and calls it the most tedious and longest journey of...

It is eight years since 9/11, and here is an unexpected stage of grief: fear that the ache will go away. I don't suppose it ever will, but grieving has gradations, and "horror" becomes "absorbed sadness." Life moves on, and wants to move on, which is painful for those who will not forget and cannot be comforted. Part of the spookiness of life, part of its power to disorient us, is not only that people die, that they slip below the waves, but that the waves close above them so quickly, the sea so quickly looks the same. I've been...

****** The conventional wisdom after the fall of the Taleban was that tracking bin Laden down would not make much of a difference to the larger War on Terror. At a March 2002 press conference, President Bush referred to bin Laden as “a person who’s now been marginalised”. In 2005 the CIA even closed “Alec Station”, its dedicated bin Laden unit that had been given the mission of hunting al-Qaeda’s top leaders, and reassigned its analysts and officers to other counterterrorism missions. Senior CIA officials believed that al-Qaeda was no longer the hierarchical organisation it once had been. Although it...

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Just for today… I won’t worry about money and paying bills because there was once a man or woman on their way to work in the Towers with money on their minds. I won’t pester or fight with my husband because on the morning of 9-11, a husban and wife had a fight and he left angry and she is left with a lifetime of regret. I won’t worry about what I’m eating or drinking because I’m alive to eat and drink. I won’t ask God for more stuff because I should be thankful for the breathe in my lungs...

I remember that day… I had a 10:00am interview at Tower 1, that never came to be. I even had a childhood friend, a neighbours and a couple of acquaintances working there, I never saw them again… Yeap, I remember that day and I still choke up about it… What have we learned from that day, a day that forever changed America? On the one hand the War on Terror has managed to stop further attacks on American soil and quite a few in the rest of the free wold. How? Because of the information gathered at Guantanamo and other...

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                         September 11, 2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTAT WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY AT THE PENTAGON MEMORIALThe Pentagon Arlington, Virginia9:34 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen and members of the Armed Forces, fellow Americans, family and friends of those that we lost this day -- Michelle and I are deeply humbled to be with you.Eight Septembers have come and gone.  Nearly 3,000 days have passed -- almost one for each of those taken from us.  But no turning of the seasons can diminish the pain and the loss of that day.  No...

Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh saying that Obama is using 9/11 "to advance his own political leftist radical agenda." Limbaugh said that Obama is trying to get people to "serve him" and that this is "potentially the lowest point of his Presidency." (Audio)