Posted on 09/11/2013 1:43:12 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
When the second jet slammed into the north World Trade Center Tower in Manhattan, I immediately told students standing next to me, Its a jihad Ghazwa ... they have chosen the Yarmuk option. The eyes of a few students around me opened wide. That Tuesday morning the world was changing at a record rapid paceand yet in a sense it was moving in slow motion for most Americans.
During that agonizing half hour from 8:45 A.M. to 9:15 A.M., my students, my colleagues, and I belonged to two different worlds. In the corner of the campus where I was teaching on that day of infamy, I felt very much alone: What I had known, researched, and watched building year after year was finally here, ravaging my new homeland. I was as shocked as anyone, but unlike many I was not surprised. What had come to pass was something I had studied and tried to warn others about for more than two decades. It made me more determined to impact the future of what I knew was coming from that point on.
Across America, peoples eyes were fixed on the smoke, the firefighters, the debris, the faces covered with blood and dust, and the gestures and declarations of Americas leaders. Americans felt like lost souls. People around the worldsupporters of peace and democratic ideas, at any ratefelt that the losses could easily have been their own. Many of their leaders said they felt they were Americans during that tragic day. Spreading outward like a wave from the events of September 11 was a terrible new reality that enveloped the minds of an entire nation and perhaps the world.
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The Boston events and the government reaction to it are a model of the new order. It will not improve. Government is all the solace the dying need.convenient
12 years since 9-11 and we have a freaking muslim marxist president giving billions in aid and weapons to other muslims to overthrow their countries’ governments, become more radical jihadis, and destroy any christians left in their land
Obamahole’s sponsoring the opposite of the crusades, he’s sponsoring jihad so the muslims can cleanse out the remaining infidels from the middle east.
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