Everyone remembers the days immediately after September 11,
2001. Amid the anger tinged with mourning and the brief but
unnerving sense that our great land was not totally protected from
harm by the two great oceans that previously guarded us, one common
thought summed up the nature of the coming struggle: if we let the
attacks change our ways as Americans, then the terrorists will have
won.
At first, these sentiments concerned themselves with issues that
immediately addressed our national security, like the Patriot Act
and the formation of the Department of Homeland Security. And
although these were grudgingly accepted, most of the country seemed
to agree with the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin: “Those who
would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
So have we given up liberty to gain security? Were our rights as
Americans diminished as a result of the jihad declared against us
by al Qaeda? Maybe these were the wrong questions. Maybe, in the
wake of the murders of four Americans in Libya and the lack of
response from the U.S. government, the real question should be: if
these outrages are no longer a cause for outrage, have the
terrorists won? Will the ultimate victory be theirs?
These questions should assume an even greater importance in a
presidential election year, but this doesn’t seem to be the case
this time. It is usually assumed that any attack on our country
would be a plus for the sitting president; however this just isn’t
the case with Barack Obama. Why? Because he has demonstrated
weakness, inaction, and a dreadful inclination to apologize for,
rather than defend, our way of life.
But this odd behavior doesn’t seem so odd when realizing the
underlying cause. Dark forces have been at work in America in the
last few decades or so, and one need look no further than the
powers that be in our liberal media to discover them. Using such
euphemistic headlines like “unrest in Muslim world” or “events in
the Middle East,” network and print newsies refuse to call these
incidents what they are: acts of global terror committed by
adherents of radical Islam. And it is this refusal to deal with the
reality of this murderous sect that is really eroding our
rights.
There have been many strange twists and turns since that bright
and crisp morning eleven Septembers ago, but who would have thought
that the liberty that would suffer most since then has been freedom
of religion? And not the one practiced by those who have
perpetrated nearly every terrorist attack across the globe for the
last 30 years, but Judaism and Christianity. And is it a
coincidence that American liberals have targeted these same enemies
as the jihadists?
We have been told, ad nauseam, that images of the prophet
Mohammed are unlawful and offensive to Muslims, but let us count
the ways in which American state, local and federal governments
have actually
funded “art” which is offensive to Christians. Or that our
president has repeatedly snubbed Benjamin Netanyahu, while meeting
at the White House with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose website
recently
called Jews “the descendants of apes and pigs,” and praised
those who wage jihad “against the arrogant Americans.” Add to this
that the constitutional rights of Catholics and other faithful
Christians and Jews are being infringed upon by the Obamacare HHS
mandates, and throw in the liberal clamoring for the arrest of the
producers of an anti-Muslim YouTube video, and you find the First
Amendment turned upside down.
In the recent past, those who choose to peacefully follow God’s
Ten Commandments have often been labeled as haters by those who do
not; but now, even those who merely decry the actions of terrorists
are branded with the same mark. But it’s worse than that; even the
thought police are now involved. You know it’s gotten out of hand
when even a liberal apologist like Juan Williams was fired by NPR
for admitting that seeing Muslims board an airplane makes him
nervous.
Someone I know who was parroting the liberal line that seeks a
moral equivalence between the terrorists and those who “insult”
them, told me she thought that the makers of the infamous video
were hateful cowards. While I was forced to agree with her that
there is indeed too much hatred in the world, I responded that
what’s really cowardly is making war deliberately against innocent
civilians without actually facing the enemy.
Yet cowardly though it may be, it is warfare that counts on the
cooperation of a few useful idiots to convince the rest of their
jihadist propaganda; a list of lies and distortions that might have
sprung full blown from the presses of the New York Times:
that terrorist tactics are justified since our military might is so
much greater than theirs; that we deserve whatever we get because
of past “injustices” committed; and most importantly, that the
tenets of all religions are intrinsically alike in spawning
fanatics and therefore all must be dangerous and/or hateful at
their root; excepting the Religion of Peace, of course.
Who among us has not heard at least some of the above used in
whatever arguments liberals put forth in defense of their agenda or
against traditional American values? And the most disturbing part
is that this poison, spooned into the American psyche like bitter
medicine into a sweet drink, has begun to take effect; resulting in
part, in the election of Barack Obama, the first post-American
Exceptionalist president. It seems that too many of our countrymen
now believe that our nation, with its Judeo-Christian values, is
just another cog in the One World wheel; unworthy of praise or
spirited defense.
And if this continues to be the case, then the terrorists will
have won.
