Engraved in stone

By Tabitha Korol

The Children of
Abraham of the Southern Tier, an interfaith organization in Johnson
City, has taken offense at the 9/11 memorial raised in the nearby Town
of Owego, New York. This association of misguided multiculturalists
and Muslim moderates allege that identifying the perpetrators of the
worst individual act of aggression on American soil would encourage
Muslim hatred, never once excoriating the very act that resulted in the
death and injury to more than 3,000 American victims
and 453 responders and boundless grief for their families and for all
Americans. 

 

Did the moderates ever
attempt to apologize for the horrific crime that forced people to jump
to their death rather than be burned alive? Did they express their
sorrow for the victims and heroic rescue workers,
or atone in a way to benefit the families that suffered such tragic
loss? Do they even acknowledge that Islamic terrorists continue their
march of evil, putting America and Europe on high alert for 9/11, or
that this was part of Islam’s perpetual holy war
against every living being on the planet. No.  And the city manager’s
overtures were also snubbed.

 

The Muslim residents
of Johnson City may be moderates who never take up a lethal weapon for
Allah, but they are engaging in a subtle act of civilizational or
settlement jihad. Such people are comparatively discreet
in Western society, going about their lives inconspicuously, but
effecting regime changes in gradual increments. By their refusal to
acknowledge the obvious links between Islam and 9/11, they shield those
who spew hatred against America, Israel and democracy;
they empower the academics and students who vilify Israel and Jewish
students on campus, and they facilitate the crossing of borders for
hijra (conquest by increased population).  Under the guise of injured
sensibilities, they insist on the removal of anything
that may identify those who pursue our destruction and conquest with
Islam, hoping to erase the ugly truth that fourteen centuries of
barbarism continues unabated in every country where Islam is found.

 

They would have us believe that a tiny minority is to blame, but a recent

Pew Research poll shows that 51 percent of American Muslims choose
to be governed by sharia; 30% believe it is legitimate to use violence
against those who insult Muhammed, the Koran, or Islam; 25 percent
believe violence against Americans can be justified
as part of the global jihad; and nearly 20% believe the use of violence
in the US is justified in order to make sharia the law of the land.
When presented with a choice when sharia conflicts with the US
Constitution and Bill of Rights, 33% say sharia should
be supreme. That’s some minority!  Politically, 48% are Democrats, 19
percent Independents, and 19 percent Republicans.

 

Islam already
regulates our speech through our government, our media, and the constant
hazard of being damned as Islamophobic to those who dare to speak up.
They cover their tracks through leftist academics,
a strong BDS movement, and textbooks crammed with indoctrinal and
fallacious material.  Continuing along those lines, the Johnson City
assemblage is working to remove from future knowledge the history of
9/11 that was carved into the granite. If we fail to
yearly observe significant events as the bombing of the World Trade
Center, the signing of our Declaration of Independence, our victory in
World War II, and more, our youth will be robbed of their identity,
their heritage, and America as we know it.  Wisdom
is defense. Ignorance of our journey through history is the greatest
threat to our survival.

It should be
noted that this interfaith group’s complaint was not that they, too,
should have paid homage to America’s fallen or, specifically, to Owego’s
citizen, Derek Statkevicus, who lost his life
that day.  Neither were they inspired to erect a monument in their own
city or to join Owego residents in a fight against the greatest scourge
of mankind with its unspeakable crimes done in the name of their
religion. Rather, they express a phony outrage that
the criminals have been identified with Islam! Often enough, other
Islamic groups attempt to blame 9/11 on American citizens, on Jews or
Christians, but this one is working to eliminate the obvious first, to
claim that the 19 were unknown, came out of nowhere,
and bombed America for no specific reason.  Removing the offensive
truth from the monument will leave room for revisionism later, just as
Major Nidal Hassan (Fort Hood Massacre) was called anything but what he
was, and his jihad massacre was officially named
“workplace violence.”

 

Instead of
condemnation or owning up to the demands for death inherent in the
Koran, these individuals hope to gradually erase the event from our
memory and from generations to come – just as Islamists have
obliterated or renamed many artifacts and historic tombs to create
their own narrative, just as their counterparts in Israel are trying to
stop archaeological excavations from revealing more of Jewish history. 
These Children of Abraham may well be the Islamic
families that escaped tyranny but, unfortunately for the rest of us,
they nurture their children with intolerance and harshness, creating a
new, young generation of jihadists. These offspring may become the young
men enticed online to join ISIS’ executioners,
or the young women lured to sexual slavery for the Palestinian cause.

 

We must continue to remind ourselves of the anger, the tears, and the patriotism that were triggered that day of September 11^th,
fifteen years ago, and realize that we are in more danger now than
ever before.  The Middle East has grown bolder and more violent.
Islamists are acquiring newer, deadlier weapons, and more of their
numbers are making their way into Europe, North and South America,
bringing with them new plans to terrorize and infuse their
way of life into ours. Islam has been at war with the world since the
seventh century. Their holy book is a dedication to brutality and
conquest, so that even their own people are condemned to grope in the
darkness of oppression and poverty. In the name of
their god, they must erase the past to support their own
supersessionist narrative, and we must never oblige them.  The more that
Americans accommodate such requests and attempt to correct or crush our
own speech, the more power we will hand to them.  Unless
we weigh the long-term ramifications of the growing adjustments we make
to our lives for the sake of theirs, we will lose our freedoms to their
tyrannical sharia laws.

 

In the words of Hassan
al-Banna, creator of the Muslim Brotherhood (1929), “It is the nature
of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all
nations and extend its laws to the entire planet.”
If the hate feared by the Children of Abraham does arise, it will be
because of Islamists’ deeds, not the attribution on a memorial stone.