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Posted on 09/11/2006 7:39:20 AM PDT by GMMAC
Sept. 10 people wrong
Projecting liberal values onto Islamic fascists mistaken
Calgary Sun
Monday, September 11, 2006
By Ezra Levant
Are you a September 10th person or a September 11th person? September 10th people think the world hasn't fundamentally changed since the terror attacks of 9/11.
September 11th people know it has.
When September 10th people hear about a jihadist attack -- like last week's firebombing of a Montreal Jewish school, or the attack the week before in San Francisco, or the month before in Seattle -- they say it is a random crime, not related to a global struggle between Western civilization and Islamic fascism.
September 11th people know even if such terrorist acts aren't centrally controlled from Iran or Pakistan, they are part of a larger movement, and that Islamic fascists use the motto "think globally, act locally." September 10th people look at Islamic fascists and project their own liberal values onto them. They wonder what we did wrong to provoke such rage; they wonder how we could split the difference with our attackers and buy peace, for that is what reasonable people do. If only we can sit down and reason this thing out together.
Jack Layton is a September 10th person. He thinks we can negotiate with the Taliban, to tackle the "root cause" of their alienation. Maybe he'd bring Dr. Phil along to really get a good discussion going, have a good cry and walk away as friends.
September 11th people are more culturally aware. They know liberal ideas -- like allowing a difference of opinion, like peaceful resolutions of disputes, like a belief in the innate worth of every man and woman -- are not shared by all men. In fact, liberal values like tolerance of dissent and freedom of religion and speech are the "root cause" of terrorism; it is that liberty the terrorists seek to replace with abject submission.
The concept of compromise itself is anathema to the perfect truth the terrorists claim to represent. It is liberal arrogance to think they can negotiate true believers away from their true beliefs.
September 10th people serve up Western-sounding excuses for terrorists (they're poor; we have not treated them fairly, it's all Israel's fault). September 11th people actually listen to what the terrorists say when they explain themselves: they are on a holy mission to make the entire world submit to Islam's sharia law.
September 11th people take the jihadists at their word. September 10th people find that too terrifying to contemplate.
September 10th people want to believe multiculturalism has no limits, and that all cultures are equally valid, equally moral, equally good. September 11th people respect some differences and tolerate others. But September 11th people have breaking points; they take Western, liberal values seriously, like equality of the sexes and non-violent solutions to problems. And when those Western, liberal values collide with illiberal values, September 11th people are not afraid to say: "Our values are superior, and you must accept them if you come to live with us."
September 10th people are torn between their belief in our Western, liberal values, built up at great cost over centuries, and their new fad of political correctness towards minorities. And so a September 10th person who would noisily criticize a Catholic priest's moral prudeness, and invoke the separation of church and state, sits quietly as Muslim imams propose the invocation of sharia law and censorship of dissidence -- including children's cartoons of Mohammed.
September 10th people have a role model. He was pleasant and fashionable and well-meaning and wrong.
His name was Neville Chamberlain. September 11th people have a role model. He was curmudgeonly and hard-nosed and right. His name was Winston Churchill.
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The only way to deal with Islam is with overwhelming force and isolation of those infected.
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That's true, and unfortunately September 10th thinking is rife in the US. I was at (briefly) my town's 9/11 commemoration this morning, where a liberal Presbyterian minister prayed in the name of the "God of Mohammed" and a bunch of gray-ponytails sang John Lennon's paean to idiocy, "Imagine."
One of the biggest hurdles serious-minded people face in this struggle is piercing the shroud of fantasy and denial that so many of our fellow citizens hide behind - that Jihadists are just misunderstood, Western-victimized underdogs. I honestly don't know what it will take to make them see what a monstrous force of darkness they are.
Leftists are "useful infidels". They, along with the Muslim jihad vermin that attacked us, should be cast down tnto the ashcan of history..
Pertinent 9/11 Links:
Canadians Murdered 9/11/01
Canada marks 9/11 5th anniversary
World Archived 9/11 Websites
No 9/11 terrorists entered America from Canada
(Setting the record straight)
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I agree! The thing that got me about this particular rendition is that Mush-for-Brains Lennon's song is about a "world with no religions" - which the ponytails sang standing right next to the minister! But since he didn't even seem to be sure which faith he was, I guess maybe it didn't really matter...
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