the slaughter of 9/11 --- a counter-attack by radical muslims because of US support of Israel.
some don't forget. On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 2:06:49 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.wsj.com/articles/denying-the-obvious-about-islamist-terror-1452556011 > Denying the Obvious About Islamist Terror > > [image: Description: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney at a news conference > after the Jan. 8 shooting of a city police officer.] > > Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney at a news conference after the Jan. 8 > shooting of a city police officer. *Photo: Matt Rourke/Associated Press * > > By > > Dorothy Rabinowitz > > Jan. 11, 2016 6:46 p.m. ET > > It required only half a minute for the mayor of Philadelphia, Democrat Jim > Kenney, to achieve national fame. On Friday, an already sensation-crowded > day, it fell to the mayor to take part in the official pronouncements on > the attempted murder of city police officer Jesse Hartnett, shot and > severely wounded as he sat in his patrol car when a would-be assassin > emptied his gun at him—13 shots in all. > > Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr., appointed just three days earlier, > delivered the details with noteworthy eloquence: The wounded officer, > bleeding heavily from three wounds, one arm useless, had gotten himself out > of the car, chased the attacker and shot him. > > The drama of this recital needed no amplification, but there it was > anyway: Clear security video images showed the assailant in his flowing > white dishdasha—a robe favored by Muslim men—running toward the patrol car, > shooting, sticking his hand in the window, and racing speedily away. > Pictures too of the police officer lurching out of the car to give chase. > > The wounded shooter, Commissioner Ross revealed, told police after his > capture that he had mounted the attack in the name of Islam, that he > believes that “the police defend laws that are contrary to Islam.” The man > apparently wanted to talk only about his devotion to Islam. > > Undaunted by anything he’d heard so far, Mayor Kenny then came to the > microphone and declared: “In no way, shape or form does anybody in this > room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam” had anything to do with > the attack. “This was a criminal with a stolen gun.” > > Mr. Kenny’s tone was fervent. Out of this event—involving a murderous > assault on a police officer, and a heroic response by that officer—the > mayor, awash in excitation, had divined what was, for him, the most > important concern of this day. Namely, persuading citizens that this attack > had nothing to do with allegiance to Islam. > > It added to the surreal wonders of this scene that, immediately after the > mayor’s pronouncement, the commander of the police department’s homicide > unit calmly took the microphone. Capt. James Clark reported that the > shooter (later identified as 30-year-old Edward Archer) had said, > repeatedly, that he followed Allah, that he pledged allegiance to Islamic > State and “That is the reason I did what I did.” > > > > The mayor’s comments, so bizarre in their determined denial of the deluge > of facts delivered by top police officials standing next to him, were, > nonetheless, familiar enough. Americans have learned to expect, after every > Islamist terror attack, lectures instructing them that such assaults should > in no way be connected to Islamic faith of any kind. > > > > To hear the mayor of Philadelphia was to grasp, more clearly than ever, > the fury that has led to Donald Trump > <http://topics.wsj.com/person/T/Donald-Trump/159>’s success in attracting > voters—the fury of citizens who know official lies when they hear them, > whether about border security, immigration, or the ever-expanding > requirements of multiculturalist dogma. > > These are not the easiest of times for the enforcers of such dogma, > especially in Europe, as another mayor, a German, has reason to know. Much > of Germany is, today, still in shock over the coordinated assaults that > took place New Year’s Eve, when bands of young men surrounded, sexually > molested and robbed women in the streets of Cologne—molesters unanimously > described by eyewitnesses to have been of Arab and North African origins. > For four days following the mass assaults, Germany’s ZDF public TV station > reported nothing about the attacks. > > Cologne’s police chief would soon stand accused of concealing that the > assailants were Middle Eastern males. The mayor of Cologne, Henriette > Reker, found herself in instant trouble when she advised women that if they > wanted to protect themselves, it was certainly possible to keep strange men > at arm’s length. She ventured no explanation of how this might be done when > a woman was tightly encircled by men grabbing at her private parts while > others stole her handbag, as was typically the case during the assaults. > > Mayor Reker also announced that it was “absolutely impermissible” to > suggest that the perpetrators could have been part of the recent refugee > flood into Germany. Within days investigators were able to report that most > of the 33 suspects rounded up were asylum seekers. > > The current political piety dictating what is and is not permissible to > say about terrorism and Muslims didn’t spring from nowhere. Nor did the > compulsion to preach on the subject. The Philadelphia mayor’s bewitching > half-minute lecture on Friday was only the most recent example. The > sermonizing reflex—a quintessential element in Barack Obama’s notion of > leadership—has by now taken on a life of its own. Who doesn’t know now to > expect, in a speech by the president, or in some exchange of his with > reporters, the glum rebuke, “That’s not who we are”? > > On no subject has there been more sermonizing than on Muslims and > terrorism and on what the real Islam is and is not—no surprise in an > administration which has from its outset tended to the apparent view that > the American nation is essentially composed of yahoos whose barely > controlled instincts to riot require regular monitoring and checks by their > enlightened betters. > > All this notwithstanding the history that shows that, after the slaughter > of 9/11 and through all the bloody assaults since that were committed > against them by rampaging soldiers of Islam—Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, > San Bernardino—Americans have conducted themselves with exemplary courage > and dignity. Neither the president nor other moral instructors who hasten > forth after every terror attack to bring light unto the nation appear to > have noticed. > > Years of effort by this administration to deny, conceal and sermonize the > nation out of its awareness of facts clearly evident to them is the sort of > thing that doesn’t escape Americans in this election season, shadowed by > the threat of terrorism. 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