Sept 11th +15yrs: How well do we recognize that Islamists are at with the West?

LAFD Memorial contains remnants of WTC and Pentagon

After 15-years, ought Sept 11th be at least one day we can acknowledge the Islamist motives which oppose liberty?

In its quest to spread Islamist domination, Islamists kill more Muslims than non-Muslims world-wide. Los Angeles' 9/11 Memorial at Van Nuys Station House 88, (from which first-responders traveled to NYC's World Trade Center to assist in the rescue and recovery mission) presents physical remnants from the attacked World Trade Towers and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. 

At L.A.'s annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at Fire Station 88- which lost firefighters at Ground Zero on Sept 11, 2001, Los Angeles Fire Department Deputy Chief Daryl Arbuthnott of the San Fernando Valley Bureau addressed the audience with consolation for the victims. No one in the ceremony addresses the agenda of the hijackers or their role in the greater, global Islamist movement to subjugate non-Muslims to Islam.

L.A. millenial, Grace Bannon at 9/11 Memorial Museum

Deputy Chief Daryl Arbuthnott references visiting the 9/11 Museum at the site of NYC's World Trade Center. We encountered a visiting 20-something Angeleno, Grace Bannon at the 9/11 Museum. She candidly revealed what what NY's 9/11 Memorial Museum teaches (or doesn't) about the Islamists' motivations (and ongoing threats to democracy). She reveals what her generation has (and hasn't) been taught in general about the about Islamism and free-people's obligation to recognize and resist it.

NY Fire Dept bas-relief etching at Memorial Park on W 48th St

N.Y. Fire Dept hosts a memorial park in tribute to the rescuers killed by Islamists- outside Battalion 9 Station House in Midtown Manhattan. Sept 11th awareness primarily addresses Western victimhood, but rarely addresses the Islamic theological imperatives to spread Islam over non-Muslims, who are considered less than fully human, via means including intimidation and terror.

Egyptian-American, Nonie Darwish, whose Egyptian-Army-officer father was killed fighting against Israel, explains how Muslims are taught to regard kufars (non-Muslims).



How L.A. and N.Y.C. are similar in their counter-terror policing practices. LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman, Valley Bureau at Sept. 11 ceremony at Pentagon and WTC remnant display at LAFD Stationhouse 88 in Sherman Oaks.



African journalist, Stephen Tebid, decries attempts to discredit acknowledging Islamism as a motive for Islamic terrorism (or discrediting valid criticism of the Democrat administration's philo-Islamist policies) as Islamophobic.



A dozen years after 2001, the 8th grader who sings the national anthem at the September 11th Attack commemoration ceremony in Beverly Hills is asked some basic questions about the 9/11 attacks and consequent war- with surprising answers.



High-school senior, Savanah Palacio, (Miss Teen USA contestant from Beverly Hills in 2013) explains what high-school has taught her about the identity and intentions of the 9//11 jihad attackers, and America's defense against jihadism, and to protect freedom from totalitarian Islamism.



Stephen Tebid declares that 'racism-branders' inhibit understanding and protecting ourselves against Islamic-terrorism.



 "The greatest victims of Islamic terrorism, first of all, are Muslims. So those who use racism as an excuse to stifle debate are complicit with terrorists. They protect terrorists, they help terrorists, and they inhibit a free and impartial discussion of the evils of Islamic terrorism- let's call it what it is," Mr. Tebid says.

What should our September 11th wake-up call remind us? Islamism (political Islam) fights to subjugate non-Muslims who must openly condemn and challenge it. And, despite Islamist-lobby groups endeavoring to taboo it, opposing Islamism isn't racist, but noble.

14-years into the Third Jihad, how smart is society? An assessment from the 9/11 Museum at the World Trade Center

9/11 Memorial "Dedicated to the Memory of The Courageous Officers and Firefighters of BATTALION 9 who made the Supreme Sacrifice 9/11/01 that others may live" Photo by Elwood J. Blues 

What do millenials know about the Islamist movement of 9/11 and defending liberty from it today? Grace Bannon, 27, at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum at the Liberty Tower.


How does the White House inhibit defeating 9/11 Islamic terrorism? Stephen Tebid outside Midtown Manhattan's Battalion 9.

Melanie Phillips takes on insanity in “correct” attitudes being promoted much of the Western media.

Melanie Phillips’ new book stuns readers with a ferocious exposé of the strains of insanity in political correctness.




DemoCast original video of Ms. Phillips' presentation at the 2009 Jerusalem Conference.


Read Isi Leibler's review of "The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power" in the Jerusalem Post.

The opening chapter titled “The Myth of Environmental Armageddon” deals with global warming which has swept the planet. Phillips ruthlessly dissects the lies and distortions employed to promote what she regards as one of the greatest scientific scams of the modern age,“reminiscent of a medieval witch-hunt,” with dissenting scientists being hounded from their posts by the equivalent of a secular inquisition.

The Fort Hood Report "Why No Mention of Islam?" Time Magazine cover-story challenges aversion to acknowledge Islamism

U.S. military's just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect's view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission.

John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 commission and Navy Secretary during the Reagan Administration, says a reluctance to cause offense by citing Hasan's view of his Muslim faith and the U.S. military's activities in Muslim countries as a possible trigger for his alleged rampage reflects a problem that has gotten worse in the 40 years that Lehman has spent in and around the U.S. military. The Pentagon report's silence on Islamic extremism "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become," he told TIME on Tuesday. "It's definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens."

In this combo photo, some of the victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas, Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga. From bottom left, Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Williston, N.D., and Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva)   View slideshow of the victims.

The apparent lack of curiosity into what allegedly drove Hasan to kill isn't in keeping with the military's ethos; it's a remarkable omission for the U.S. armed forces, whose young officers are often ordered to read Sun Tzu's The Art of War with its command to know your enemy. In midcareer, they study the contrast between capabilities and intentions, which is why they aren't afraid of a British nuclear weapon but do fear the prospect of Iran getting one.

The Congressman whose district includes Fort Hood agrees. "The report ignores the elephant in the room — radical Islamic terrorism is the enemy," says Republican Representative John Carter. "We should be able to speak honestly about good and bad without feeling like you've done something offensive to society."

The report lumps in radical Islam with other fundamentalist religious beliefs, saying that "religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor" and that "religious-based violence is not confined to members of fundamentalist groups." But to some, that sounds as if the lessons of 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq, where jihadist extremism has driven deadly violence against Americans, are being not merely overlooked- but studiously ignored.
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Will murdered Jews (at the hands of ceaseless Islamic terrorists) serve as "A Light unto the Voting Nations?"

How will today's Jihadist terror against Israel motivate Americans to elect a different strategy to confront Islamist imperialism than Britain has?

Brits' "Newspeak" Rationalizes Failure to Understand Islamism; Stage-Set for Reversion

The ironic confluence of 4 items make this newsworthy:

1) Britain's Home Office issuing an Orwellian-Newspeak dictionary requiring police and other civil officials to self-censor all public references to Islam or Muslims when discussing political Islamist terror or the Iraq/Afghan War on Terror. Melanie Phillips remarks:

Talking about ‘shared values’ amounts to no more than meaningless platitudes if it is forbidden to talk about the ideology which seeks to supplant them. That ideology can only be defeated if its characteristics are talked about frankly, and that cannot be done if the entire subject is prohibited. Fanaticism cannot be fought if people refuse even to name what they are fighting.

This ‘new sophistication’ is simply all about giving in to terror and intimidation. It principal effect is to give Islamism in Britain a free pass and to systematically conceal from the British people what is happening to their country. For what it also does is to define the problem as ‘violent extremism’; but the threat is not from violence alone but from the religious extremism that seeks to Islamise Britain, and whose strategy is to use cultural creep as well as terrorism to achieve its ends.

2) This follows yesterday's Times of London's report that Scotland Yard apprehended a suspected al-Qaeda cell who arrived at London's Gatwick Airport with intent to detonate suicide attacks on the London Underground.

According to El Pais, the Spanish newspaper, a member of the Barcelona cell told
the Spanish civil police that it was planning attacks not just on Barcelona’s underground system but also against public transport in Britain and other
European countries.

The informant is said to have told police that pairs of suicide bombers planned to strap explosives to their bodies and blow themselves up on the rail and bus networks in Britain, France, Germany and Portugal.

Referring to the arrests of the Pakistanis at Gatwick, a senior British official said: “The intelligence from Spain was that there was to be another wave of attacks on the way to us after the attempted attacks in Barcelona. When it was followed up it led to this lot.”

Patrick Mercer, the Tory MP who last year helped to prepare a report on terror threats to crowded places, said: “This intelligence shows the breadth and span of international terrorism and anybody who thinks that the threat has either gone or is in abeyance is in cloud-cuckoo-land.”

3) A Palestinian homicide bombing in Israel's city of Dimona by the Abbas-affiliated al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade & the PFLP (which infiltrated Israel from Gaza), which killed 3 and wounded 11 innocent civilians (and was celebrated by Palestinians by distributing candies and met with little public censure). This evidences the error in the West's $7 Billion plan to strengthen Palestinian leader, Abbas, because of his inability to fulfill the Palestinians' Road Map to Peace obligations to stop terror - a precondition for Israel granting them security/autonomy concessions.

4) All this on the eve of the US Presidential Primaries' Super Tuesday, which calls attention to the (lack of) progress that the West has made in:

(a) educating the public about the ideological motivations of political Islamists;

(b) our ability to distinguish the political Islamist movement from spiritual Islam; and

(c) the ability of the public and the Presidential candidates to confront and defeat this imperialist movement.

"In War against Islamism, We Must Listen to the Words of Our Enemies," American-Muslim physician M. Zuhdi Jasser examines the public's and the Candidates' understanding of political Islamism, and provides a checklist of questions to qualify the best candidate for defeating the imperialist ideology, including these questions:

"* International Islamist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood are now conveniently condemning terrorism in order to mainstream themselves and fit into the Western construct of anti-terrorism. Is anti-terrorism enough? Shouldn’t anti-Islamism be a more defining litmus test for the organizations and networks we positively engage?

*Should we remain dangerously silent under the false guise of political correctness? Why would you not critically engage countries which enforce medieval laws against their populations in the name of Islam? Sudan tried to enforce medieval blasphemy laws against a British teacher. A Saudi court turned a rape victim into a criminal and an Afghani court tried a citizen for apostasy laws after he left Islam. At what point is it incumbent upon the President of the United States to set the stage for the contest of ideas between the west and our United Nations Declaration of Human rights and the Islamist world?

Never compromise the principle of freedom in the name of political expediency and fear of our enemies.

How can we speak about bringing liberty and freedom to the Muslim world when the Islamist mindset remains effectively unchallenged by mainstream media and politicians in our public arena? How can we liberate ideas we never engaged?

The core ideological conflict between Americanism and the militant Islamists remains inferred, rather than in front. It is time to bring it to the fore. It is time to expose Islamists – domestically and on foreign soil – who exploit our protections of religious freedom in exchange for the toxic advocacy of their own theocratic political agenda.

If the President will not lead and address these ideological chasms, one would have thought that the Presidential candidates vying for change would have been challenged to gain more clarity on them. Much to the contrary, they are even more evasive and dismissive of Islamism. "

Political Correctness: The Incubator of Islamism

"In the face of threats, people tend to go to the mind’s medicine cabinet and take a few denial and rationalization pills, in the same way that it is the aspirin bottle they turn to when a headache strikes. Why not? We are the Easy Species. We love effortless, quick and simple solutions. And that’s not invariably bad. It has given us all kinds of labor and time saving devices. Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts, nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. It is here and it shows every sign of imposing itself on us. Let us look at some of the facts. (...)

Islamists are Islam’s locomotive that takes the wrecking-ball Islamic train on its demolition course. Islam and democracy are incompatible. As democracies practice their magnificent accommodating belief, they knowingly or unknowingly lay the track for the advancing wrecking train of Islam. We, in the United States of America must resist Islamism while it is still gathering momentum, unless we wish to end up in the same fix as the Europeans. ...

We, in the United States, further need to embark on a comprehensive legal, educational, and social campaign to eradicate the deadly plague of Islam. By effective action, we even save those peaceful Muslims from their own affliction. "

(Amil Imani is an Iranian born, pro-democracy activist who speaks out for the struggling people of his native land, Iran).