Excuse me, but it's a natural reaction to hate anyone who deliberately attacks your country and kills your citizens. We felt the same way about the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and we felt the same way when COVID escaped from China and killed millions of Americans. We felt the same loathing for the Nazis who murdered six millions Jews. Were we expected to kiss our enemies instead?
The propagandists should just keep their mouths shut when it comes to spewing sick 9/11 "truther" conspiracy theories blaming the U.S government rather than Al Qaeda for the death and destruction; and particularly when it comes to fake "Islamophobia"; and real Jew-hatred, at least on this solemn 25th anniversary.
But I doubt they will keep silent.
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The establishment media will use the anniversary to step up its propaganda.
"In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 jihad attacks, and on the day itself, the establishment media is going to inundate us with feature stories about “Islamophobia.” Here’s one: NPR on Tuesday ran an interview with Rozina Ali, who writes for the New York Times and has just published a new book of victimhood propaganda, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America. Hawking the book and Ali’s appearance, NPR tells us:
"After the Sept. 11 attacks, assaults against Muslims in the U.S. surged. At the same time the U.S. government launched a sweeping War on Terror that brought arrests, deportations and surveillance into Muslim communities. Journalist Rozina Ali was a teenager at the time and remembers her father warning her, “Don’t tell anyone you’re Muslim.” In her new book, “Seasons of Fury,” Ali traces the rise and persistence of Islamophobia through the lives of four Muslim American families. We talk to her about how the War on Terror reshaped Muslim life in America and what it will take to counter Islamophobia now….
"This brief blurb is typical of what we’re going to see: the term itself is never defined. We’re told that “assaults” on Muslims surged after 9/11, but that term isn’t defined, either. Were large numbers of Muslims in the U.S. physically attacked? Or do rude encounters involving verbal assaults also count as “assaults” for NPR?
"Also, Rozina Ali and NPR suggest that after 9/11, innocent Muslims were unjustly suspected and inconvenienced. That’s unfortunate, if true, but was anyone guilty? Did the “sweeping War on Terror” that “brought arrests, deportations and surveillance into Muslim communities” ever arrest or deport or place under surveillance anyone who was guilty, or were all of the Muslims who experienced one or more of those three things all innocent? If any were guilty, could it not be argued that these law enforcement procedures were justified?
"NPR and Ali also discuss “what it will take to counter Islamophobia now.” Yet both are proceeding from the assumption that the Islamic identity of the 9/11 hijackers was incidental, and had nothing really to do with why they carried out these attacks. Others who are more realistic and more honest, and/or better informed, will be aware that Islam in virtually all of its various forms does indeed, contrary to the still-prevailing myth, teach warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. Will Rozina Ali and NPR discuss that fact as a contributing factor to suspicion of Islam, or what they call “Islamophobia”? They most certainly will not. It is integral to the left’s entire myth of Islamophobia that Islam be seen as entirely nonviolent, non-supremacist, non-misogynistic, non-antisemitic, and wholly benign, with jihad terrorists proceeding upon a misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the religion that only bigoted “Islamophobes” conflate with the real thing.
"This is a fantasy, totally detached from reality, but NPR is all in on the fantasy game. And so is Rozina Ali. The advertising copy touting her book at Amazon says: “Ultimately, the U.S. government’s Islamophobic policies disillusioned generations of Muslims who sought the promise of the American dream only to find their communities torn apart, their relatives imprisoned, and their religion villainized by politicians and media. Ali’s story of how we got to our terrifying present is a magisterial accomplishment and a damning indictment of the United States’ abandonment of its core principles in the face of fear.”
"Wow, that’s some heavy stuff. And yet in the years since 9/11, while all of this villainization and tearing apart of communities was going on, Muslims were streaming into the U.S. in large numbers, so that the U.S. Muslim population soared from 1.8 million in 2001 to 4.5 million now. Didn’t all these new arrivals realize that the U.S. had abandoned its core principles in the face of fear? Didn’t they know that when they got to the land of the free and the home of the brave, full of excitement and hope for the future, they would find their religion villainized by politicians and media, and that they would be living in a terrifying present?
"It just doesn’t add up. If Rozina Ali’s victimhood pornography were remotely true, Muslims would be streaming out of the United States, not streaming in. And there is still more than a week until the anniversary: Expect the establishment media to churn out more and more of this drivel — so much that by the time they’re finished, this NPR piece will look balanced."
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Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 32 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, The Critical Qur’an, and Muhammad: A Critical Biography. His new books are Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani; Holy Hell: Islam's Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It; and The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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