Called "Muslims Are Angry", this new game is designed to force Prime Minister Tony Blair out of office.
The game starts with the assertion that "the British Muslim community" is "seething with anger" against Blair, because of his foreign policy. It then proceeds to assert that it was Muslim anger that caused the terrorist attacks in London last year and the dozen or so plots nipped in the bud since. The game concludes with the claim that unless Britain reshapes its foreign policy, no one in the United Kingdom would be safe from terrorism by "Angry Muslims."
Many Britons who otherwise look sane and sober play the sinister game without questioning its premise.
Is there any evidence that all, or even a substantial number, of the estimated 1.8 million Muslims in Britain are "angry" with Blair because of his foreign policy?
Can all Muslims in Britain be bracketed into a single "community" ?
Supposing there is a single" Muslim community", should we assume that a handful of terrorists speak on its behalf? Isn't that an insult to British Muslims?
Supposing that a handful of terrorists do speak for all Muslims in Britain, how would one explain terrorist attacks in Spain, where the Socialist Prime Minister wears the Palestinian scarf, in Germany that has stayed out of the Iraq war, and in Turkey that is, after all, a Muslim state governed by an Islamist party?
Today no fewer than 46 of the 57 Muslim majority countries face the same kind of terrorism that Britain is facing. Is that also the fault of Tony Blair?
Since we are in a game of suppositions, let us suppose that Blair is gone and a new government is formed to carry out the kind of foreign policy that would make " angry Muslims" chirp with joy.
What are the changes that Britain would have to make to be safe from Islamist terrorism?
The question is never posed either by the self-styled "Muslim leaders" in Britain, who do not, in fact, represent anyone except their small coteries, or by Blair's non-Muslim enemies who dislike him for reasons that have nothing to do with Islam.
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Supposing that a handful of terrorists do speak for all Muslims in Britain
Finally, the truth.
how would one explain terrorist attacks in Spain, where the Socialist Prime Minister wears the Palestinian scarf, in Germany that has stayed out of the Iraq war, and in Turkey that is, after all, a Muslim state governed by an Islamist party?
Easy, Muslims just plain love to kill. Infidels, other Muslims, women, children it matters not so long as they are busy destroying something, anything, everything. Constructive behavior is a foreign concept and, when engaged in by others, is all too often nothing but a source of humiliation for incompetent Muslims.
Today no fewer than 46 of the 57 Muslim majority countries face the same kind of terrorism that Britain is facing. Is that also the fault of Tony Blair?
Nope. More likely Bush, if we are to believe Muslim leaders. Blair is just a lapdog right?
September 9, 2006 -- It's hard not to like the images of the three buildings that are meant to join the Freedom Tower in replacing the World Trade Center - destroyed in smoke and flame five years ago Monday morning.
If nothing else, the renderings - depicting completed towers rising in height order alongside the Freedom Tower - suggest that just maybe the pitiful pit that's languished since 9/11 may one day be gone, and what the terrorists took, restored. The buildings surely seem elegant - glistening in concert with their elder brother, the Freedom Tower, healing a wound in the skyline and affirming their noble chief purpose: commerce.
But the display also made it hard not to wonder: Why couldn't all this have been done more quickly? Rebuilding was vital not only to the economy, but also as a show of American resilience. As America prepares to mark the passing of five full years since those strikes, not one square foot of the Twin Towers has yet been rebuilt.
Not one.
Ground Zero has suffered naysayers and saboteurs. Such as newspapers with hidden agendas that claimed the market couldn't bear to replace the lost space. And Mayor Bloomberg, who piped up late, casting doubt on developer Larry Silverstein's ability to finish the job and urging that already-late plans be scrapped altogether, in favor of some out-of-the-blue preference for residential development.
Gov. Pataki abdicated his role as leader of the project, focusing like a laser instead on his post-gubernatorial career.
Silverstein showed them all. His rapid, government-free reconstruction of 7 WTC stands in biting contrast to the no-go approach by Pataki, Bloomberg and the Port Authority. And with that building now filling up with tenants (Moody's, the latest, is to take 700,000 square feet of space), Lower Manhattan's real-estate bears have to head for hibernation.
But even as the designs for the new buildings are made public, New Yorkers know that they've seen pretty pictures before. They know that much more needs to be done before construction can begin.
The PA must still give a final OK to the financial terms for Ground Zero rebuilding. Leases need to be signed, rents agreed to. The WTC insurers still are holding out on some $1 billion in payouts. Meanwhile, the Port Authority's mammoth bureaucracy has done zilch - zippo - to prepare the site for the new buildings.
If (and it's a monster if) the stars line up, the four towers would be done by . . . 2012. Eleven years after the Twin Towers fell. New Yorkers should keep their fingers crossed. They're not the same as concrete and steel, but pictures do represent, at least, a vision.
That's something, anyway.
Pataki, Bloomberg, Corzine, the Port Authority, etc. should all be completely ASHAMED of themselves. They have disgraced the American people through their playing of politics. Ground zero doesn't just belong to New Yorkers. It's rebuilding is a symbol for all Americans. Rarely do I agree with a dem, but Ray Nagin right when he pointed out the hypocrisy of criticizing New Orleans for not rebuilding in one year, when NYC has had 5 years, and there's still a big hole in the ground. It's time to rebuild. NOW. The President should step in now and play the fatherly role, because it's painfully obvious that NY leadership is unwilling or incompetent. He should bring all sides together, hold a press conference, and explain that the site WILL begin construction immediately.
by Peggy Noonan
Everyone remembers the pictures, but I think more and more about the sounds. I always ask people what they heard that day in New York. We've all seen the film and videotape, but the sound equipment of television crews didn't always catch what people have described as the deep metallic roar.
The other night on TV there was a documentary on the Ironworkers of New York's Local 40, whose members ran to the site when the towers fell. They pitched in on rescue, then stayed for eight months to deconstruct a skyscraper some of them had helped build 35 years before. An ironworker named Jim Gaffney said, "My partner kept telling me the buildings are coming down and I'm saying 'no way.' Then we heard that noise that I will never forget. It was like a creaking and then the next thing you felt the ground rumbling."
Rudy Giuliani said it was like an earthquake. The actor Jim Caviezel saw the second plane hit the towers on television and what he heard shook him: "A weird, guttural discordant sound," he called it, a sound exactly like lightning. He knew because earlier that year he'd been hit. My son, then a teenager in a high school across the river from the towers, heard the first plane go in at 8:45 a.m. It sounded, he said, like a heavy truck going hard over a big street grate.
I think too about the sounds that came from within the buildings and within the planes--the phone calls and messages left on answering machines, all the last things said to whoever was home and picked up the phone. They awe me, those messages.
Something terrible had happened. Life was reduced to its essentials. Time was short. People said what counted, what mattered. It has been noted that there is no record of anyone calling to say, "I never liked you," or, "You hurt my feelings." No one negotiated past grievances or said, "Vote for Smith." Amazingly --or not--there is no record of anyone damning the terrorists or saying "I hate them."
No one said anything unneeded, extraneous or small. Crisis is a great editor. When you read the transcripts that have been released over the years it's all so clear.
Flight 93 flight attendant Ceecee Lyles, 33 years old, in an answering-machine message to her husband: "Please tell my children that I love them very much. I'm sorry, baby. I wish I could see your face again."
Thirty-one-year-old Melissa Harrington, a California-based trade consultant at a meeting in the towers, called her father to say she loved him. Minutes later she left a message on the answering machine as her new husband slept in their San Francisco home. "Sean, it's me, she said. "I just wanted to let you know I love you."
Capt. Walter Hynes of the New York Fire Department's Ladder 13 dialed home that morning as his rig left the firehouse at 85th Street and Lexington Avenue. He was on his way downtown, he said in his message, and things were bad. "I don't know if we'll make it out. I want to tell you that I love you and I love the kids."
Firemen don't become firemen because they're pessimists. Imagine being a guy who feels in his gut he's going to his death, and he calls on the way to say goodbye and make things clear. His widow later told the Associated Press she'd played his message hundreds of times and made copies for their kids. "He was thinking about us in those final moments."
Elizabeth Rivas saw it that way too. When her husband left for the World Trade Center that morning, she went to a laundromat, where she heard the news. She couldn't reach him by cell and rushed home. He'd called at 9:02 and reached her daughter. The child reported, "He say, mommy, he say he love you no matter what happens, he loves you." He never called again. Mrs. Rivas later said, "He tried to call me. He called me."
There was the amazing acceptance. I spoke this week with a medical doctor who told me she'd seen many people die, and many "with grace and acceptance." The people on the planes didn't have time to accept, to reflect, to think through; and yet so many showed the kind of grace you see in a hospice.
Peter Hanson, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 called his father. "I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building," he said. "Don't worry, Dad--if it happens, it will be very fast." On the same flight, Brian Sweeney called his wife, got the answering machine, and told her they'd been hijacked. "Hopefully I'll talk to you again, but if not, have a good life. I know I'll see you again some day."
There was Tom Burnett's famous call from United Flight 93. "We're all going to die, but three of us are going to do something," he told his wife, Deena. "I love you, honey."
These were people saying, essentially, In spite of my imminent death, my thoughts are on you, and on love. I asked a psychiatrist the other day for his thoughts, and he said the people on the planes and in the towers were "accepting the inevitable" and taking care of "unfinished business." "At death's door people pass on a responsibility--'Tell Billy I never stopped loving him and forgave him long ago.' 'Take care of Mom.' 'Pray for me, Father. Pray for me, I haven't been very good.' " They address what needs doing.
This reminded me of that moment when Todd Beamer of United 93 wound up praying on the phone with a woman he'd never met before, a Verizon Airfone supervisor named Lisa Jefferson. She said later that his tone was calm. It seemed as if they were "old friends," she later wrote. They said the Lord's Prayer together. Then he said "Let's roll."
This is what I get from the last messages. People are often stronger than they know, bigger, more gallant than they'd guess. And this: We're all lucky to be here today and able to say what deserves saying, and if you say it a lot, it won't make it common and so unheard, but known and absorbed.
I think the sound of the last messages, of what was said, will live as long in human history, and contain within it as much of human history, as any old metallic roar. There are many kinds of strength and courage.
And may all who support or excuse the bastards who did this and those who would do it again, only worse, burn in HELL for all eternity. Starting soon.
And that includes all the traitors, fellow travelers, and assorted slavering America-hating moonbats in this country, too.
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damn, PD, I'm all teared up. For such a big strong guy, I'm a puss
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Never forget. Never forgive.
I'm still pissed and the current moonbat offensive is killing me.
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Just one look at this article's picture is all it takes for me to go totally ballistic, all over again. It's why my television is still turned off, five solid years later. After seeing some of the live 9-11 coverage at my job, I knew the networks would replay these images a million times. That was something I did not want etched into my memory.
As the 9-11 atrocity's fifth anniversay approaches, I have totally and completely lost all hope for any peaceful reconciliation with Islam. Muslims have not demonstrated even one percent of the commitment against terrorism that is required for them to have the least credibility.
Instead, we have been treated to atrocity after atrocity and only have an endless stream of them to look forward to so long as Islam still exists. I now join you, .com, in supporting the "fry 'em up" stance. Nothing else will preserve us from Islam's bloodlust.
.com, since there's a chance you will review this thread, I'm going to give you some background about me that you have honestly asked about and truly deserve.
I was a lifelong democrat who finally became fed up enough when Clinton sought re-election. After commiting perjury on the stand and wasting untold millions of this nation's dollars doing it, I reached my limit. Because of how strongly I feel about a woman's right to self-determination, I was obliged to vote for Al Gore, despite his totally uninspiring platform. To this day, Bush's campaign of intentionally blurring the separation of church and state is so repugnant to me that I have never been able to consider voting for him.
Am I glad that Bush is in office? Even if not, I am glad that Al Gore is not. The propensity democrats have for negotiating with even the most dispicable sorts could not possibly serve this country in time of war, which is where we are, at war with Islam.
In the last election, I could not possibly bring myself to vote democratic. John Kerry was absolutely repulsive in his rudderless morality and meandering, weather vane campaign platform. I voted libertarian to send a message to both parties.
In the coming elections, I am still unsure of how I will vote. The republican party still is far too much in bed with this country's fundamentalist Christian right wing for me to gladly join their ranks. The democrats' defeatist stance has absolutely forbidden me to vote for them. I may still have to vote libertarian again, but I doubt I'll ever vote democrat again in my entire life.
The threat of Islamist terrorism cuts across all party lines and trumps even some of my highest priorities, like a woman's right to choose. I forgot who here said it, but it boiled down to "abortion and gay marriage are something we can debate, fighting Islamism is not". (Feel free to step up and take a bow for that line.)
That pretty much encapsulates my own political reorientation. I give vast and deepest thanks to Rantburg and Fred Pruitt particularly for the keen insights I have gathered here. I give special thanks to you, .com, for rising to the challenge and making sure that I had to provide proper backing for my own political positions. Something many of my own personal friends do not do because of how lacking in rationality their own belief structures are.
Thank you .com for blasting the scales from my eyes regarding the myth of moderate Islam. As Duh! mentioned today:
There's never the need to specify moderate Christians or Buddhists for the very reason that their (present day)teachings do not support violence.
The fact that moslems have to claim this title of "moderate" clearly shows that it's essential nature is certainly neither moderate nor peaceful when the rabble rousing mullahs appear.
It was a personal pleasure to share Fjordman's article, Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims with you today, .com. Without your untiring persistence in illuminating all things perfidious about Islam, I might not have appreciated what I was reading. Instead, I did, and I thank you for it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
September 9, 2006 -- It's hard not to like the images of the three buildings that are meant to join the Freedom Tower in replacing the World Trade Center - destroyed in smoke and flame five years ago Monday morning. 
by Peggy Noonan
