Posted on 09/11/2002 7:14:16 PM PDT by kattracks
I haven't watched all of the 9/11 documentaries and retrospectives, but there's a glaring omission in those I have seen. Among the most enduring images of this event to my mind were the jubilant celebrations in the streets of Kabul, Amman, Baghdad, hell, Detroit for all I know -- wherever significant populations of Islamics were present, it seemed. I, for one, will never forget the delight these crowds (many of which consisted largely of women with their faces veiled, trilling that weird, high-pitched "lalalalalala" thing that sounds like a cross between laughter and gagging) as they rejoiced in the deaths of 3,000+ innocent Americans.
I wonder what happened to all that old footage. Seems to me to be a concerted effort to put Islam in the best possible light for American audiences, not unlike the decision of my alma mater to require incoming freshmen to read a book about the Q'ran. Curious.
He uses for one of his examples a motel lodge that was burned down in Heber City, Utah last July. The owners are Muslims, from Pakistan. They said they had been receiving hate phone calls since 9/11, and two men checked in, paid cash, and their rooms were where the fire was started. The FBI was called in to investigate the hate crime, we had all sorts of editorials. I do have to salute the fine people of Heber, they held a benefit and donated the proceeds to the Muslim family, many other kind things were done to help this family out. Well, guess what. Sometime this week, the Muslim owner of the lodge was arrested for arson. He had been trying to sell the lodge for at least a year, had no buyers... So now I am trying to find an email address for Zogby, to tell him that one of his examples is wrong, it is the Muslim who was lying, and the community came together and was kind and Christian.
Plus, I remember seeing on the TV, on Al-Jazeera, the Palestinians who were celebrating the 911 terrorism attack on America.
Speaking of the previous administration, C-SPAN2 had some roundtable last night about terrorism and its impact on the media. And there was Madeleine Albright on the panel. What a mess she is...both her appearance and her view on the world.
For all of our technology, war is still dependent on the seasons. Less so than it used to be, but still dependent.
Recall all of the screams about how slow the President was in striking against Afghanistan...and remember that the Taliban fell before the fires in the World Trade Center had completely died out.
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