Still Fighting September 11, 2001 - the Never Ending Day

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Sep 13, 2010 at 15:55

As the issues are joined in the attack and defense of the 'Islamist' headquarters site near Ground Zero, we find that in further discernment of the ideologies that the 'Islamists' use to 'assert their rights,' that their rights as they have them in view are more important than the rights of those upon whom they make their imposition. They play the 'victim of civil rights violations' for their own cause, all the while hiding behind a veil of secrecy that if exposed, would betray their true feelings once it was made known they were among those who cheered when the towers met their demise, along with the thousands who perished. In remembering September 11, 2001, do we forget that such ideologies as espoused by the Islamists backing the 'Islamist' headquarters at Ground Zero are still as crimson in the haze of 757 smoke as the day it happened?

How can this be so? It is proposed here that the supporters of the Ground Zero Islamist headquarters building is being advanced because of the single most powerful misunderstanding of their reasons for promoting it amongst those who should be set against it, but are not. While there still seems to be a reason for trying to separate 'moderate' Muslim devotion to a 'peaceful' interpretation of the Quran and that of the Islamist's ideology of Muslim domination of the world, no such distinction exists in the Islamist's mindset. But they will try to make you think there is as long as they need to in order to obtain their objective.

The reasoning of the leadership of the 'Islamist' headquarter building at Ground Zero has made it plain for any intelligent evaluation that their intention is to obtain their approvals at the behest of those in favorable political positions and complete their project in spite of the sentimentalities against it. Were they to be prevented from accomplishing this task, they have already issued their preliminary injunctive statement (fatwa), meaning be ready for the consequences if they cannot do as they wish. But with the seemingly unassailable credentials of the political power that has given consent/assent to the project, should they worry. We already know how the American Executive Administration has weighed in, along with the upper management of the City, but is it enough?

Who will win/lose; who will rule/rue the day? That remains to be seen; but either way, it is not going to be the end of it: it will merely signal the beginning of the next chapter on preserving or losing the rights to the American Way.

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