Two Years Later - Remembering 9-11

Two Years Later - Remembering 9-11
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor

September 11, 2003

"The Heretical Housewife"

Managing Editor Jennifer King We all remember exactly where we were, what we were doing when we first heard the news. How the horrible truth began to dawn upon us, as we watched the television - experiencing feelings which ran the gamut from terrible grief to stunned disbelief. We saw footage of those who, doomed, leaped from the towers rather than face the inferno. We heard the cries of pain and fear, from those fleeing the chaos. We watched the heroism of those who went to save, entering the buildings that would become their tombs.

That awful morning, when one horrific event followed another in endless succession. We had been attacked, viciously and without mercy. Innocent Americans were dead. We mourned together, united countrymen with a beloved country to protect.

9/11 became the worst attack on American soil ever, preceded some 60 years prior by the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor, indeed, provides an eerie template for 9/11. In 1941, a complacent America had gone about her business, ignoring the darkening clouds gathering over Europe and the Far East. An illegally rearmed Germany had conquered Europe and was aiming his broadside squarely at beleaguered Britain. Adolf Hitler preached a virulent and violent anti-Semitism, based on the vastly discredited “Protocol of the Elders of Zion”. Jews in Germany had already suffered much - they had been stripped of their citizenship as far back as 1935, in 1938 they were forced to carry ID cards, and the event known as Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) occurred on November 9-10 of that year. Kristallnacht was a pogrom orchestrated by the Nazis, who used the mass violence against Jews, Jewish businesses and synagogues as an excuse to deport some 30,000 of them to concentration camps. Hitler looked to be well on the way to achieving his goals - the elimination of the Jews, and the conquering of the world.

In September 2001, America was asleep at the wheel again. Since the 1970s, terrorism had been on the rise, with events escalating through the years. Not surprisingly, terrorist attacks coincided exactly with the rise of radical Islamism in Saudi Arabia. In 1963, King Faisal gave control of Saudi education to the Wahhabi religious leaders. Under King Faisal, the ulama greatly increased their impact on Saudi society. The Directorate of Religious Research supplied contents for the Friday sermons, and the mutawain (religious police) were given new powers to regulate the behavior of Saudi citizens. Religious courses became mandatory in universities, and textbooks were rewritten to emphasize the Wahhabi point of view. From 1965 on, hundreds of thousands of Saudis were educated in schools, universities and mosques - all of which preached extreme Wahhabism. Wahhabism was also exported, worldwide, with the founding of the Muslim World League, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Wahhabism is a doctrine which preaches total intolerance of anyone who does not accept its principles, including other Muslims who are not deemed pious enough. Wahhabism deems all those not Wahhabi to be “kufar”, or infidels. Their conquest and forced conversion thus becomes a religious mandate under Islam. Murder is sanctioned, even glorified as an act of faith which can bring them closer to God. The slaughter of innocents is encouraged by their ceaseless dehumanization.

In the 1990s, Saudi imams were preaching sermons which called Christianity “a distorted and twisted religion”. Christians were called polytheists for believing in the Trinity. Saudi religious textbooks reported that, since Jews and Christians were infidels, it was okay to “demolish, burn or destroy their bastions”. Wahhabi adherents were encouraged to “slit the throats of Jews and Christians”. The government of Iran recently reprinted “The Elders of the Protocols of Zion”. And “Mein Kampf” topped out on the Palestinian bestseller list, complete with a flowery introduction by translator Luis al-Haj. Columnist Ahmad Ragab, wrote a piece which started, “Thanks to Hitler of blessed memory…his revenge upon them (Jews) was not enough”. And Holocaust denial is rife, in print and elsewhere. Just researching this article (Google (Google Search only)/ Wannsee Protocol (TAP article previously done by this author and Timothy Rollins) brought up a site called “Radio Islam” which devoted several pages allegedly debunking this meeting.

Hatred of Jews, a willingness to slaughter those who don’t capitulate, and a determination to impose a severe and radical ideology upon the rest of the world - hallmarks of Nazism and Wahhabism both. The defeat of Wahhabism is thus our generation’s great battle.

Can the Wahhabists conquer the world? They have no standing army, no U-boats, no Luftwaffe, after all. But they do have thousands, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of fanatical followers - who are willing to sacrifice themselves in killing infidels, and who believe that by doing so they are doing the will of God. If they get atomic weapons, who can doubt that they would use them with great glee.

On September 11th, 2001, we got a glimpse of that dark possibility. It is up to us to make sure it never becomes reality. ***

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