Menace of 9/11 myths

NY Post ^ | September 26, 2010 | Michael Goodwin

[Scanian]

Let's be kind. Let's say it was a coincidence that, at about the same time the Iranian madman was at the UN spewing his nonsense that 9/11 was an "inside job," the Pakistani terror mom was in a downtown courtroom claiming Israelis destroyed the Twin Towers.

Now let's be honest. The only coincidence was the timing. The similar content of the two claims illustrates a growing menace in the Muslim world.

The myth-making about 9/11 is spreading, and so is the danger. Nine years after the mass murder by Islamic terrorists, conspiracy theories are deflecting Muslim guilt and inflaming a new generation of jihadists, many of them living in the West.

It is comforting for Americans to dismiss the "truthers" as crackpots since they are the same kind of people who celebrated as the towers and the Pentagon were burning. But the increasing boldness of the wild claims is an alarming indication of how widely accepted they are among mainstream Mideast audiences. We ignore this new phenomenon at our peril.

While Westerners who buy the claims tend to mutter to themselves on the subway and swear the CIA scrambles their television, the scary stuff coming from the Muslim world cannot go unchallenged.

"Some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and to save the Zionist regime," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in his Thursday UN speech.

[Westbrook]

Nuke Mecca.

Some things just need to be done.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Nine years after the mass murder by FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM,

There fixed it..

[Kozak]

Muslim world? 1/3rd of Rats think Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11. The idiocy is much closer to home....

[R. Scott]

Some Islamic myths:
The CIA was responsible for the attacks on New York, the Pentagon and the plane that went down in PA.
The Holocaust never happened.
There was never a Jewish Nation in Palestine.
The Koran is the Word of God as dictated to their prophet.

[wolfcreek]

There’s much more to the story. Maybe one day......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2596627/posts

[deadrock]

Of course 9/11 was an inside job. Youtube says so...

[reagan_fanatic]

What gets me is the stupidity of some of the claims

1) It wasn't planes that flew into the towers, it was missles (never mind that the 1st plane was filmed hitting the tower and thousands of others saw the 2nd plane hit.)

2) The missing people on the planes were secretly transported to a military base where they are being held to this day.

3) Demolition charges took down the towers (stupidity meter pegged with this one.)

Popular Mechanics came out with a brilliant refudiation of kook theories here.

[IYAS9YAS]

thousands of others saw the 2nd plane hit

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who, by that time, were watching any news channel they could get that was showing the scene in New York.

[trisham]

Good article.

[Scanian]

Glad you liked the post.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Scanian.

at about the same time the Iranian madman was at the UN spewing his nonsense that 9/11 was an "inside job," the Pakistani terror mom was in a downtown courtroom claiming Israelis destroyed the Twin Towers... The similar content of the two claims illustrates a growing menace in the Muslim world. The myth-making about 9/11 is spreading, and so is the danger. Nine years after the mass murder by Islamic terrorists, conspiracy theories are deflecting Muslim guilt and inflaming a new generation of jihadists, many of them living in the West... the increasing boldness of the wild claims is an alarming indication of how widely accepted they are among mainstream Mideast audiences. We ignore this new phenomenon at our peril. While Westerners who buy the claims tend to mutter to themselves on the subway and swear the CIA scrambles their television, the scary stuff coming from the Muslim world cannot go unchallenged.

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The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes

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