{"id":89273,"date":"2021-09-11T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89273"},"modified":"2021-09-11T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:45:23","slug":"20-05-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=89273","title":{"rendered":"September 11, 2021: Twenty Years of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>September 11, 2021: Twenty Years of Failure<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Robert Spencer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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On Friday, September 10, 2021, the Philadelphia chapter of the\u00a0Hamas-linked<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is presenting a\u00a0panel discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0entitled \u201cRemember Pearl Harbor to Never Forget 9\/11: Teaching Japanese American and Muslim American Histories.\u201d There in a nutshell is much of what has gone wrong in our nation\u2019s response to the 9\/11 jihad attacks, and why we are so drastically on the wrong path now.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CAIR panel is as noteworthy for what it is not about than for what it is about. It is not about the victims of 9\/11, the lives lost, the lives destroyed, the magnitude of human suffering that was inflicted. It is most certainly not about the ongoing global jihad: a useful panel could be held on groups that still exist around the world that hold to the same belief system, ideology and goals that the 9\/11 plotters and hijackers held, and which are an ongoing threat to Americans and to all free people. Hamas-linked CAIR is never going to hold such a panel, and neither is anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, CAIR, predictably enough, focuses on the people who hold the same beliefs as the jihad attackers of 9\/11 and have, CAIR claims, been victimized and discriminated against in the United States as a result. Statistically speaking, such claims are wildly exaggerated. FBI hate crime statistics show that anti-Semitic hate crimes are far more common than attacks on Muslims, which actually\u00a0dropped 42%<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the last year. No hate crime is justified, but the idea that Muslims are living in fear of MAGA-hat-wearing redneck vigilantes in America is Leftist fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, that is not just the focus of this unsavory Hamas-linked group, but of the establishment media as well. The\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0on Friday published\u00a0a lengthy weepe<\/strong><\/span>r<\/a>\u00a0entitled \u201cMuslim youth in America: A generation shadowed by the aftermath of 9\/11,\u201d all about how some people say rude things to innocent Muslims just because some people did something way back two decades ago. The article begins: \u201cOn a rainy day during her sophomore year of high school, as Aissata Ba studied in the library, a photo popped into her phone. It showed a beheading by Islamic State militants, along with a caption in red letters: \u2018Go back to your country.\u2019\u201d In the big bad, \u201cIslamophobic\u201d USA, the perpetrator of this horror got off scot-free: \u201cBa reported the incident. Administrators never tracked down the person who sent it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times explained how Muslims are the true victims of the 9\/11 attacks: \u201cAsked when they thought such incidents became common, the Ba family didn\u2019t hesitate. \u2018It started with 9\/11,\u2019 said Ba\u2019s mom, Zeinebou, who immigrated to Chicago in 1999. That day in 2001 caused a chain of tragedies \u2014 for the nearly 3,000 people who perished during the attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania; for the young men and women who died serving their country in the wars that followed; and for Muslims, and those perceived as Muslim, who became targets of hate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be much easier to sympathize with all this if not for the fact that since 9\/11, CAIR and its allied groups, with eager help from the establishment media, have insisted that any honest investigation of the motivating ideology behind the attacks, and jihad terror in general, constituted \u201chate.\u201d Then there are the numerous\u00a0fake anti-Muslim hate crimes<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> fabricated apparently in order to buttress the claim that Muslims are uniquely harassed and victimized in the United States. The facts don\u2019t bear out this claim.<\/span><\/p>\n

The LA Times was not alone, of course. The Associated Press came out with its own Muslims-Are-Victims 9\/11\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday: \u201cTwo decades after 9\/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias.\u201d It opened with another unsubstantiated anecdote that, as all such anecdotes do, revealed more than it intended: \u201cA car passed, the driver\u2019s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: \u2018Terrorist!\u2019 It was 2001, mere weeks after the twin towers at the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her younger sister were walking to the local mosque from their Brooklyn home. Unsure, afraid, the girls ran. As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches, Hanif can still recall the shock of the moment, her confusion over how anyone could look at her, a child, and see a threat. \u2018It\u2019s not a nice, kind word. It means violence, it means dangerous. It is meant to shock whoever \u2026 is on the receiving end of it,\u2019 she says.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If that really happened, it\u2019s a shame, but the fact that both the\u00a0LA Times\u00a0and AP had to lead with stories of people saying rude things to Muslims unwittingly reveals that they didn\u2019t have anything worse to head up their stories: no stories of Muslims being attacked, of mosques being burnt down, of laws targeting Muslims in the United States and denying them basic rights. Nor should there be such stories. But the fact that there aren\u2019t any gives the lie to the entire establishment narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, SiriusXM host and frequent CNN contributor Dean Obeidallah\u00a0wrote at CNN<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on Monday: \u201cOn September 10, 2001, I went to sleep a White guy. On September 11, I woke up an Arab.\u201d This happened, you see, because after 9\/11, people began to regard poor Dean as a member of a group that he says has been \u201cdemonized and hated by many of our fellow Americans \u2014 simply because we shared the same ethnic background, and in some cases religion, as the 9\/11 terrorists.\u201d The irony of his writing this for one of the world\u2019s foremost media outlets, which frequently showcases his work, appears to have been lost on him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is much different from what these stories suggest.\u00a0Newsweek recently noted<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that \u201cas the 20th anniversary of September 11 approaches, the recent rise of many Muslim Americans to positions of power and influence\u2014in Washington and in statehouses, on big screens and small ones, across playing fields and news desks\u2014is a development that few in the U.S. would have predicted two decades ago, Muslims included.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women have genuinely experienced the marginalization that Obeidallah claims to have suffered. They have been defamed by the\u00a0Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> targeted by the social media giants\u2019\u00a0Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and shunned by the establishment media.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all this I haven\u2019t even mentioned the misbegotten misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the U.S. government\u2019s adamantine determination to ignore and deny the ideological wellsprings of the global jihad. But it all works together: the lesson most Americans will be told on Saturday is that twenty years ago, some \u201cextremists,\u201d akin to the January 6 \u201cinsurrectionists,\u201d hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam, and since then Muslims have been victimized. The moral of the story? We must end all remaining counterterror measures directed at stopping jihadis. They\u2019re \u201cIslamophobic,\u201d and the real problem is \u201cwhite supremacists,\u201d anyway. What could possibly go wrong? Go back to sleep.
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Robert Spencer is the director of\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Jihad Watch<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and a\u00a0Shillman\u00a0Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Truth About Muhammad<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The History of Jihad<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. His latest book is\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Critical Qur\u2019an<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Like him on Facebook\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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