On Sep 9, 1:04 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
Michelle Malkin ( as usual ) is spot on , while Laurence Vance
has his head up where the sun don't shine.
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> Michelle Malkin Is UpsetPosted byLaurence Vanceon September 9, 2011 10:07 AM
> She is upset about anew pollreleased this week showing that Americans today
> "are generally more willing to believe that U.S. policies in the Middle East
> might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon."
> I don't think I need to say that this comes as no surprise since she is one
> of the conservative movement's finest bloodthirsty warmongers.
> xxxAll the Wrong 9/11 Lessonsby Michelle Malkin
> 09/09/2011
> Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama
> bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too
> many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political
> correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
>
> "Know your enemy, name your enemy" is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded.
> Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi
> adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders. Our military
> leaders refuse to expunge them from uniformed ranks until it's too late (see:
> Fort Hood massacre). The j-word is discouraged in Obama intelligence circles,
> and the term "Islamic extremism" was removed from the U.S. national security
> strategy document last year.
>
> Similarly, too many teachers refuse to show and tell who the perpetrators of
> 9/11 were and who their heirs are today. My own daughter was one year old
> when the Twin Towers collapsed, the Pentagon went up in flames and
> Shanksville, Pa., became hallowed ground for the brave passengers of United
> Flight 93. In second grade, her teachers read touchy-feely stories about
> peace and diversity to honor the 9/11 dead. They whitewashed Osama bin Laden,
> militant Islam and centuries-old jihad out of the curriculum. Apparently, the
> youngsters weren't ready to learn even the most basic information about the
> evil masterminds of Islamic terrorism.
>
> Mary Beth Hicks, author of the new book "Don't Let the Kids Drink the
> Kool-Aid," points to a recent review of 10 widely used textbooks in which the
> concepts of jihad and sharia were either watered down or absent. These
> childhood experts have determined that grade school is too early to delve
> into the specifics of the homicidal clash of Allah's sharia-avenging soldiers
> with the freedom-loving Western world.
>
> Yet, many of the same protectors of fragile elementary-school pupils can't
> wait to teach them all the ins and outs of condoms, cross-dressers and crack
> addictions.
>
> We pulled our daughter out of a cesspool of academic and moral relativism and
> found a reality-grounded, rigorous charter school where no-nonsense teachers
> refuse to sugarcoat inconvenient facts and history. Many of the students are
> children of soldiers and servicemen and women who -- inspired by the heroes
> of 9/11 -- have voluntarily deployed time and time again to kill the American
> Dream destroyers abroad before they kill us over here.
>
> There's no better way to hammer home the message that "freedom is not free"
> than to have your kids go to school with other kids whose dads and moms are
> gone for years at a time -- missing births and birthday parties, recitals and
> soccer practice, Christmas pageants and Independence Day fireworks.
>
> But instead of unfettered pride in our armed forces, social justice educators
> in high schools and colleges across the country indoctrinate American
> students into viewing our volunteer armed forces as victims, monsters and
> pawns in a leftist "social struggle."
>
> A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Blame America-ism still permeates classrooms
> and the culture. A special 9/11 curriculum distributed in New Jersey schools
> advises teachers to "avoid graphic details or dramatizing the destruction"
> wrought by the 9/11 hijackers, and instead focus elementary school students'
> attention on broadly defined "intolerance" and "hurtful words."
>
> No surprise: Jihadist utterances such as "Kill the Jews," "Allahu Akbar" and
> "Behead all those who insult Islam" are not among the "hurtful words" studied.
>
> Middle-schoolers are directed to "analyze diversity and prejudice in U.S.
> history." And high-school students are taught "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" -
> pop-psychology claptrap used to excuse jihadists' behavior based on their
> purported low self-esteem and oppressed status caused by "European
> colonialism."
>
> It is no wonder that a new poll released this week showed that Americans
> today "are generally more willing to believe that U.S. policies in the Middle
> East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and the
> Pentagon," according to Reuters.
>
> To make matters worse, we have an appeaser-in-chief who wrote shortly after
> the jihadist attacks a decade ago that the "essence of this tragedy" derives
> "from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an
> inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others."
> A "climate of poverty and ignorance" caused the attacks, then-Illinois
> stateSen. Barack Obamapreached. Never mind the Ivy League and Oxford
> educations, the oil wealth and the middle-class status of legions of al-Qaida
> plotters and operatives.
>
> 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on
> the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us
> before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And
> the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us no
> matter how much we try to appease them.
>
> The post-9/11 problem isn't whether we'll forget. The problem is: Will we
> ever learn?http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46057
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