On September 11, some of us opened our eyes. Others closed them as hard as they could.
“In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate,” a terrorist declares on the Flight 93 cockpit recording. That’s followed by the sounds of the terrorists assaulting a passenger.
“Please don’t hurt me,” he pleads. “Oh God.”
As the passengers rush the cabin, a Muslim terrorist proclaims, “In the name of Allah.”
As New York firefighters struggle up the South Tower with 100 pounds of equipment on their backs trying to save lives until the very last moment, the Flight 93 passengers push toward the cockpit. The Islamic hijackers call out, “Allahu Akbar.”
Mohammed Atta had advised his fellow terrorists that when the fighting begins, “Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” He quoted the Koran’s command that Muslim holy warriors terrorize non-believers by beheading them and urged them to follow Mohammed’s approach, “Take prisoners and kill them.”
The 9/11 ringleader quoted the Koran again. “No prophet should have prisoners until he has soaked the land with blood.”
On Flight 93, the fighting goes on. “Oh Allah. Oh the most Gracious,” the Islamic terrorists cry out. “Trust in Allah,” they reassure. And then there are only the chants of, “Allahu Akbar” as the plane goes down in a Pennsylvania field leaving behind another blood-soaked territory in the Islamic invasion of America.
Today that field is marked by the “Crescent of Embrace” memorial.
Thousands of Muslims cheered the attack in those parts of Israel under the control of the Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority. They shouted, “Allahu Akbar” and handed out candy.
But similar ugly outbreaks of Islamic Supremacism were also taking place much closer to home.
On John F. Kennedy Boulevard, in Jersey City, across the river from Manhattan, crowds of Muslim settlers celebrated the slaughter of Americans. “Some men were dancing, some held kids on their shoulders,” a retired Jersey City cop described the scene. “The women were shouting in Arabic.”
Similar Islamic festivities broke out on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a major Islamic settlement area, even as in downtown Manhattan, ash had turned nearby streets into the semblance of a nuclear war. Men and women trudged over Brooklyn Bridge or uptown to get away from this strange new world.
At Union Square, I passed NYU students painting anti-war placards even as the downtown sky behind them was painted the color of bone. They ignored the crowd streaming up past them and focused intently on making all the red letters in NO WAR line up neatly on the white cardboard.
In the years since, I have seen that look on the faces of countless leftists who ignore the stabbers shouting, “Allahu Akbar” in London or the terrorist declaring, “In the name of Allah, the merciful,” among the bloody ruin of a gay nightclub in Orlando. Instead they focus on their mindless slogans.
“NO WAR,” “Stop Islamophobia” and “Refugees Welcome.” The world of the cardboard sign and the simple slogan is an easier and neater one than a sky filled with the ashes of the dead.
On September 11, some of us opened our eyes. Others closed them as hard as they could.
The passengers on Flight 93 who took the lead were in their thirties. But the two firefighters who made it to the 78th floor of the South Tower, Ronald Bucca, who did duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret, and Orio Palmer, a marathon runner, were in their forties. Those men and women had the most meaningful answers to the old question, “Where were you when it happened?”
The great lesson of that Tuesday morning was that it wasn’t over. It wasn’t over when we understood that we wouldn’t find anyone alive in that twisted mass of metal and death. It wasn’t over when the air began to clear. It wasn’t over when the President of the United States spoke. It wasn’t over when the planes began to fly again and the TV switched from non-stop coverage of the attacks and back to its regularly scheduled programming. It wasn’t over when we were told to mourn and move on.
It still isn’t over.
After every attack, Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, New York, Paris, Manchester, London, Barcelona, we are encouraged to mourn and move on. Bury the bodies, shed a tear and forget about it.
Terrible things happen. And we have to learn to accept them.
But Tuesday morning was not a random catastrophe. It did not go away because we went back to shopping. It did not go away with Hope and Change. Appeasing and forgetting only made it stronger.
“Where were you?” is not just a question to be asked about September 11, 2001. It is an everyday question. What are you doing today to fight the Islamic terrorists who did this? And tomorrow?
Our enemies wake up every day wondering how to destroy us. Their methods, from demographic invasion to WMDs, from political subversion to random stabbings, are many.
A new and terrible era in history began on 9/11. We are no more past it than we were past Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway. Its origins are no mystery. They lie in the last sound that came from Flight 93.
“Allahu Akbar.”
We are in the middle of the longest war in American history. And we still haven’t learned how to fight it.
September 11 has come around again. You don’t have to run into a burning building or wrestle terrorists with your bare hands. But use the day to warn others, so you can answer, “Where were you?”
Billy says
Islam and its Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslim by using Muslim discrimination, segregation, deceit, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an to make Islamic Law supreme(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Public funding is a privilege that should NOT BE granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Islam and its Organizations including Muslim Schools and Mosques are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, rape, violence, and terrorism. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
ploome says
oh the irony of it
Daniel writes:
.Today that field is marked by the “Crescent of Embrace” memorial.
did the people who designed and approved this memorial understand?
(from Chaplain’s office , Yale University
While generally regarded as an Islamic symbol today, the crescent moon and star pre-dates Islam by several thousand years. This symbol became affiliated with the Muslim world after it was adopted by the Ottoman Empire. While certainly not in uniform use among Muslims, it’s often associated with Islam because the lunar cycle has an important ritual and legal role in Islam’s calendar.
that is what I think of every time
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ploome
Thanks for reminding us. In the years that followed, there were 2 attempts to try to salvage a coup for the jihadists:
⮞ The Ground Zero mosque at that Burlington Coat Factory site near the towers
⮞ The Crescent of Embrace at the Shanksville site in Pennsylvania
Thankfully, both attempts bit the dust. The people who tried to bankroll those attempts ultimately ran out of money. The former ended up getting nowhere, while for the latter, the architect, who seemed to be heavily influnced by islamic architecture, was forced to convert (in a manner of speaking) the crescent into a full circle, so that it didn’t get to be oriented towards Mecca, nor otherwise get an islamic design
Somehow, I doubt that today, if similar attempts were made, that they could be successfully resisted. If a bunch of dawa artists go to Mamdani and ask him to help in getting a major mosque (branded as “islamic centers” in the US) built near the site, I’m pretty sure that it would go through. Same for if there was an attempt to build something similar at Shanksville
Yesterday, Robert noted that 25 years later, they are winning. On @X, Debbie Schlussel noted that 9/11 was the best PR move that muslims could ever have made, and noted how they have evolved from shooting up army bases to gay nightclubs to having people run for various offices, be it in Congress, states or mayoral elections. But while following the war around Iran, I did notice a bunch of sweet moments of shadenfreud, if not downright justice:
1. Saudi Arabia – in those days, King Abdullah used to boast that he could have White Western soldiers at his beck & call doing whatever he needed, and it looked true, noting how both Bush & Obama heeded him. But today (granted that the regime has changed and MbS is nothing like his uncle), it’s a whole new story. After disappointing the US by doing everything they could to delay this war and then pressing for a ceasefire once it started, today, when the Saudis are being attacked even though the ceasefire is on, they find that they are last on the priority list of those being protected, due to the US missile interceptors being on allocation
So their choices were to join the Abraham Accords, but apparently, their population ain’t ready for that. So they signed the Mecca Agreement w/ Turkey and Pakistan, but the ink is hardly dry on the document before they find out how worthless it is. They got attacked by the Houthis, but Turkey just ignored them, while Pakistan just issued stern statements to the Houthis 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 while pleading w/ Araghchi to do something (although the islamic regime no longer controls them, and now, they are no longer a single entity). Apparently, Pakistan also weaseled out of their commitments by saying that it only applies to future wars, not current ones 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 while for the current war, only if the Houthis actually enter Saudi territory w/ their troops will they intervene. But not if Saudi territory is attacked by drones 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
So from the era when King Abdullah would flick his fingers and have US serving him, his country is now attacked from 2 sided, and can’t pay anyone to protect them 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
2. Qatar – the last 9 years, we had been groaning about Qatari influence in our institutions, both via al Jazeera (for some bizarre reason, the media channel that became famous due to the Osama videos was somehow found acceptable in the West) and via their donations to US institutions. Even the Arabs found them dangerous – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrein and Emirates had embargoed them. Yet our state department and Mike Pompeo did their best to rehabilitate them, even while they played footsie w/ the islamic republic
But today, how things have changed! IRGC drones have hit Qatar and destroyed so much of their LNG infrastructure that that Qatar is now a net importer of our gas (I do hope they are low on the allocation list) 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 . Finally, they’ll have no money to bankroll our institutions, just like the Saudis had to stop in 2017. For starters, they have to get their tankers out through Hormuz, which is still a high risk venture, and none of their neighbors would be inclined to help them get their oil out
3. Kuwait – the country that turned on us by becoming an ally of Qatar when it was being isolated, and playing footsie w/ the islamic republic got bombed by the IRGC (civilian targets in their case, so I won’t gloat as much), and can’t get its oil out: Hormuz is its sole choke point
I know most won’t like what I’m about to say, but as they say in islam, alhamdulillah, or praise be to allah 😈
somehistory says
When I meet a stranger, I try to steer the conversation to what muzzies are doing. Some *get it.* Others don’t seem to realize.
I forward some of the emails I receive from this site. I don’t send all of them, because I want the ones I send to actually be read. Sending all to those who don’t yet understand would be like writing everything in uppercase, and like putting the emphasis on every word when speaking.
Some of the emails have made inroads in the effort to open eyes.
“we will never forget” was short-lived for many and some just don’t understand what is at risk.
Being someone who reads and believes the Bible and the warnings of Jesus, including the Revelation, I see the end result of this raging “wild beast, it’s image and the dragon” which gives it “power and authority.” fighting to rule over us if we don’t bow under threat of swords.
I pray that many more who currently have closed eyes, will open them before it’s too late.
Nick says
Agree with every word. We don’t need to declare war, we just need to get rid of them from our country.
somehistory says
Appreciate your reply, Nick.
Larry Estavan says
On September 11, 2001, I was visiting my mother’s husband, Bob, in Lompoc, California. My mother had died recently, and with the money she left me I bought a new car so I could drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lompoc, California, and visit Bob, who was then in his eighties.
On the morning of September 11, I slept in. After getting up and showering, I drove into the one-horse town of Lompoc. There is nothing in Lompoc except a penitentiary, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and a few retail chains.
I had breakfast, got a Starbucks, and then went to the Big 5 sporting goods store to look at sneakers. Like I said, there is nothing going on in Lompoc.
As I stood there sipping my coffee, I began to feel conspicuous and decided to head back home.
On my way out, I saw that the clerk had a ghetto blaster on the counter with the sesquipedalian antenna pulled all the way out like an exclamation point.
“Something must have happened somewhere,” I thought.
Back in my car, I listened to the CD player as I drove to the house in my luxurious little bubble.
When I got back, I turned on the TV. One of the news anchor’s faces filled the left side of the screen, with an aerial view of Manhattan behind him. But he never said what had happened.
Clearly, the image of the city was a clue, but I couldn’t figure it out. I thought I saw a slight wisp of smoke rising. Was it a fire? He never said what had happened.
It seemed like hours before they finally showed the planes crashing into the towers, and then the collapse, with people racing to escape the huge wave of dust that threatened to envelop them.
Then Bob walked in and told me the Pentagon had also been struck.
That was when I knew it was war.
Although I had managed to miss the whole thing as it happened, there was no escaping it now, with wall-to-wall coverage but only speculation as to who had done it.
I remember how we, as a nation, huddled around our TVs in the dark, going to sleep that night wondering: What happened? How did this happen? Who did this? What do they want? What is going to happen?
I knew it was irrational at the time, but I couldn’t help feeling that if I had been paying attention, it might not have happened. I have since rationalized this as an emotionally inarticulate way of saying that if I had been paying attention, I would not have been as surprised.
So I began looking for help in figuring out who had done this. Of course, that led me to Islam, truly a source of evil in the world.
In the name of my fellow Americans who were incinerated, trapped inside the buildings, falling and choked by thick dust, and struck by giant pieces of debris . And in the name of the firefighters who arrived on the scene, looked up at a fire near the top of a skyscraper, and knew that the best they could do was try to get everybody out, only to be smothered and smashed instead . I try every day to match the jihadis’ passion and fight against this evil thing: Islam.
I can honestly say that I never forgot 9/11, and I look every day for like-minded people to join in saving the world from this scourge.
Every day.
John Pepple says
Thanks for your story. I went through a series of misunderstandings of what was happening. It started when I saw a couple guys in a gas station watching the tv very intently. I realized it was about the World Trade Center, so I thought it was the anniversary of the bombing there. Then I got onto the Internet (at a library) and could only get onto a news site with no pictures that said a plane had hit one of the buildings. That was all the info that was given, and the link didn’t work, but I knew that a little plane had once hit the Empire State Building, so I thought it was that. Then I heard a librarian say that a second plane had was now involved. That didn’t make any sense, so I ignored it. It wasn’t until a little later that I learned that these were big planes, that it was a terrorist attack, and that it was Muslims.
I immediately interpreted this as part of a campaign by Muslims to rule us. And I have never seen any reason to change my mind on that interpretation. Moreover, I thought it was the obvious interpretation, and I was completely dumbfounded when I learned that leftist elites (and maybe even people on the right) thought it was all our fault. I remembered the massacre of leftists back in 1979 in Iran, and I just assumed that every leftist had concluded from that dreadful episode that Muslims were the biggest enemies of the left. I was no longer on the left when 9/11 happened, but I just couldn’t believe how stupid leftists were not to remember what happened in Iran in 1979.
Every day I wonder when leftists will figure out that they’ve made a dreadful mistake.
Every day.
somehistory says
The New York Post video
“The NYPD removed anti-Israel protesters from Ground Zero on 9/11. A group of American patriots commemorating the lives lost on 9/11 began singing ‘God Bless America’ as the protesters were e…”
Being “anti-Israel” in the U.S., means also being anti-U.S. Especially on that day, wearing yassar arafat scarves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/crowds-commemorating-9-11-sing-god-bless-america-as-protesters-are-removed-from-ground-zero/vi-AA2c5GtU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6aa5da1c97f2423d969788b2def85a77&ei=37
somehistory says
Just below this story, are others. One is the planting of thousands of flags, and another is a fireman telling a terror supporter that he’s not welcome. He says that the guy should leave and take with him bo, mamdani and aoc.
tgusa says
This begins to explains quite a bit.
A War for Civilization
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/421345.php#421345
It is not over and because of Western (so called) elites Westerners have not yet begun to fight. But as is said, the truth is out there.
Walter Sieruk says
The United States could defeat jihad and starve off Sharia expect many Americans are in mental state of denial. That after a full 25 years since those murderous and destructive Muslim terrorists jihad attacks/ affronts, many Americans , including many other Westerners still deny that Islam is a violent and death inflecting religion, So they rationalize and an excuse of Islam ,saying that “The 9/11 hijacked the nom –violent peaceful religion of Islam.”
With that false premise may Western talk about toot ideology of such terrorism. Which is Islamic terrorism.
Therefore, there is much Western discussion about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What “talk” doesn’t mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false ,dangerous and deadly religion.
Tim gallagher says
Allah merciful and compassionate has to be biggest load of bullshit of all time. This disgusting version of what god is is vicious, evil monster made up by some of the most evil people who ever lived. Kill anyone who doesn’t belong to the hideous cult and all the other evil things this thing, Allah, says are ok. People should be ashamed to belong to islam. Other religions have high ideals, but Islam has murderous hate towards most of the human race.
tgusa says
The only thing you got wrong is it is not “most”. Islam has murderous hate towards the human race. You have to be frightened hateful or insane to go along with it.
Tim gallagher says
When I said most of the human race, tgusa, I meant all of us non Muslims, all of us infidels and leaving out the Muslims. Then again, Muslims say how much they love death so maybe Allah does want all of the human race. The people made Islam up truly had to be complete scum of the earth. They thought of all the evil things they loved to do and then made up a version of god who said was all ok
tgusa says
What do you call a desert island with two muslims on it? Eventually you call it a desert island with one muslim on it.
Tim gallagher says
That’s true, tgusa. Muslims just love murdering people including other Muslims. Islam produces monsters there’s no doubt about that.
tgusa says
As the passengers of flight 93 rushed the cabin, a Muslim terrorist proclaims, “In the name of Allah.” At that moment the passengers were thinking… Here we are and we are about to send you to your maker in hell.
tgusa says
Mamdani and Cortez were seen laughing and smiling during the ceremony of reading of the 9-11 dead. Even a completely evil person would know that is a really bad look but they dont. They aren’t even pretending anymore.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/zohran-mamdani-and-aoc-spotted-laughing-at-911-ceremony-while-victims-families-weep-during-reading-of-names/ar-AA2c2ftt?ocid=BingNewsSerp
tgusa says
On 9-11 It took unarmed untrained ordinary Americans on flight 93 under 30 minutes to come up with a plan after they realized what was happening. It took them 6 minutes to execute their plan. That is quick reaction. Those guys deserve a Medal that is above and beyond any US civilian or military Medal. Now think about the fact that there are 300 million Americans that would do the same.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. And how many people know that while the jihadis were shouting Allahu Akbar, Todd Beamer.. just before he braced himself and said, “Let’s roll’, recited two ancient prayers with the 9/11/ responder with whom he’d been talking on the phone.
First they recited the Lord’s Prayer. And then they recited Psalm 23.
And then he got up and with the other passengers went into battle. They all died.. but the White House and the Capitol, the oldest symbols of the Republic.. not its military (Pentagon) or its monetary might (the twin towers) … remained standing.
I think that the memorial in the field, to the Passengers of Flight 93, should have included two lines of text on two blocks of granite.
One, in Aramaic (probably the language Yehoshuah/ Jesus was speaking when he taught his disciples the ‘Lord’s Prayer’) and in English: “Deliver us from Evil”.
The other, in Hebrew and in English: “I will fear no evil”.
England Invaded says
There was an eye opening in more than one way on 9/11.
Trump has just recently waffled on about how he’d like to see a united Ireland. This in keeping with the fact that over the decades, nearly all the money for the IRA and their splinter groups, came almost entirely came from the USA.
US politicians, celebrities, idiots sat in bars romanticising how Irish they were because they drank guinness, all donating for years,. That money, including much of it from places like New York caused carnage for years in the British Isles, allowed by the UK’s closest ally at the time.
Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and even worse, didn’t receive the red carpet treatment so much after September 2001, as they had across the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Easy to romanticise terror and mass murder when it’s thousands of miles away. Not so easy when lands on your door step.
We still see that now with the deluded Western supporters of the Palestinian cause.
Walter Sieruk says
Since this terrible conflict is far from over , then it’s best to remember that much of the greatness of the history of the United States of America is because this nation was, mostly founded and based upon the Judo- Christian percepts and the concepts and values of Bible based Christianity and not Islamic precepts and “values.”
As the second President of the United States, John Adams, had, so well, declared “The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity …. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are eternal and immutable as the existence of God.”
dumbledoresarmy says
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – publicly declared apostate from Islam, publicly declared convert to Christianity – has just published a very powerful article reflecting on September 11 2001. In Tablet Magazine. Title: “What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us”.
She speaks with authority, as someone who – in her teen years, in Kenya – experienced Muslim Brotherhood revivalism and indoctrination.
She warns America that they don’t have 25 more years to turn this around.. to reverse the hijra, to put an end to the capture of institutions by money from entities such as Qatar. She says maybe 10 years.. if you’re lucky.
Find the article. Copy it. Share it on every social media platform to which you have access.
Print it out on paper and send it, with a covering letter, to every one of your elected representatives. She knows whereof she speaks…