Posted on 09/01/2003 9:06:05 PM PDT by StarCMC
One day I'd like to celebrate Muslims Are History Month
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September 11, 11 am You are invited to recognize our military who keeps our country safe and free at this tribute. Hear the Air Force Band of the Golden West, based at Travis Air Force Base, listen to distinguished speakers, and watch a breathtaking C-17 aircraft flyover. Gate admission is free until noon, for all to attend. Additionally, free gate admission will be offered all day on Sept. 11 to active duty, reservists and retired military and their dependents. Simply show ID at the Fair gate for free entrance. |
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Yes, but I need to access my 9/11 files at work. I'll respond tomorrow . . . although I wouldn't be surprized if another FReeper read your request and is responding right now.
I hope you find them.
BUSH COUNTRY.org - Opinion Corner: "RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUP CLAIMS UPCOMING EVENT IS NOT A CELEBRATION OF TERRORISM" by Jeremy Reynalds (ARTICLE SNIIPPETS: "A poster promoting the event, scheduled for Sept. 11 2003, features pictures of the 19 hijackers, whom it promotes as "The Magnificent 19."" ... "Rather, event organizers claim, the day's event will commemorate the events of Sept. 11 2001. "It will examine its root causes and the driving force and motivation of the 19 men who partook in the operation, in order to have a clearer understanding and in order to discuss whether the continuation of the causes might result in a recurrence of such events, albeit by utilizing different ways and means." While calling the hijackers "magnificent," the release had harsh words for President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them "the real terrorists and bandits."") (August 29, 2003) (Read More)
YAHOO! Groups - almuhajiroun: Press Release: "THE UNITED NATIONS - A LEGITIMATE TARGET?" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "One of the many benefits of 9/11 was that it clearly delineated the two camps of Islam and Kufr (non-Islam), the camp of Haq (truth) and that of Batil (falsehood), the camp of sovereignty and supremacy for God as opposed to sovereignty and supremacy for man made law. Verily Muslims have no choice but to reject all alliances apart from those with Muslims. This means rejecting the UN and any organisation or body propagating man made law. As Allah (SWT) says in the Qur'an: 'O believers do not take the Jews and Christians as friends and protectors. They are just supporters of and love each other alone. And whoever does turn to them is one of them. Verily Allah does not guide the oppressors' [EMQ 5:51] And 'The believers are a single brotherhood' [EMQ 49:10] Let it be known therefore that all regimes, governments and bodies (implementing man made law) in the world today are rejected by Muslims and that the only legitimate authority, recognised in Islam on the state level, is that of the Islamic State i.e. Al-Khilafah, which must be established by Muslims and which will carry the message of Islam to the world - striving for Izhar ud-Deen i.e. the total domination of the world by Islam, through its divine foreign policy of Jihad. Al Muhajiroun The Voice the Eyes the Ears of the Muslims U K") (August 24, 2003)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "FBI WARNS OF AL QAEDA PLOT TO FLY JETLINER INTO BUILDING" by David Bamber, London Sunday Telegraph (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An FBI spokesman said information about potential attacks had also identified Italy, Australia and the United States as ground targets.") (August 24, 2003) (Read More...)
I was in France, difficult though it now is to admit. I'm no jet-setter -- it was my first and only trip to the European continent (though I'd been to the UK twice). Further, I wasn't in Paris, but in Aix-en-Provence, in the south, where the residents actually seemed to like Americans. I learned of the attack from, of all people, Mark Haines of "Squawkbox" on CNBC, the finance cable channel. I had tuned into CNBC Europe to catch the opening of Wall Street (it was 2-something PM in France), and they had a cut-in to New York, just as CNBC here cuts to Frankfort or Paris or London for European exchange news. It was scheduled to be my last day in Aix, and we were scheduled to fly to Paris the next day, only to change planes on our trip back to Charlotte. As it turned out, we were "stuck" in Paris for six days -- not such tough duty compared to those whose planes were suddenly diverted to Greenland or wherever, but damn, we wanted to get home, and all the Louvre and cathedral tours and wine-swilling and restaurants in Paris didn't change that fact one iota.
But of course, where I was at the time, and whatever minor inconveniences I had to bear, are of no consequence. So I spend less time remembering what I was doing that day, and more time pondering the implications of terrorism, our response to it, and the response of our current or former allies. I can tell you definitively I'll never go back to France (the words and deeds of Parisians in the immediate aftermath of the event were fine, even kind and solicitous -- no complaints there; but subsequent actions by their government, their press, and many of their prominent citizens have created an unbridgeable rift, as far as I'm concerned). But whatever tiny financial penalty France absorbs by my absence and by my boycott of Bordeaux wines is not really the point, either.
Mostly, I'll spend September 11, 2003 pondering what freedom means, what its loss (however briefly) means, and what I can do between then and November, 2004 to preserve it. The re-election of President Bush is now much more than a desirable thing; it is a necessity.
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