What They Refuse to Say Will Get Us Killed

Eleven years ago today I was working as a psychotherapist in New York City and was just about to start my 9:00 AM session with my first patient.  She used a wheelchair so we were on the main floor near the receptionist area and the radio was on when we initially heard the news about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center.  I had to start session and wait forty-five minutes before discovering a second plane had flown into the second tower.  I believed it was an accident when session began, but knew it was a terror attack by the time we were finished.

My second patient lived a few blocks from the clinic and had MS, so I saw her at her house and when I got there she was watching it all on TV.  For some reason, it was more important for her to talk to me about her past than it was to keep her TV on and learn more about the present.  So she shut it off and talked.

Afterwards, I walked back to the clinic and saw a therapist friend of mine standing in front of the building, crying unashamedly.  I asked her what happened and she simply said, "The buildings are down."  I had difficulty processing her words and she simply repeated what she had said and I understood.

We all went home.

I later learned that a group of Afghanistan immigrants were literally dancing in the streets along Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn.  There were other incidents where people celebrated the killing of those innocent victims who were incinerated and vaporized on that sunny Tuesday that we will always remember.  But even today, the media is hesitant to describe these people for who they are: Muslims, and particularly Muslims who follow the scripture in the Koran and try to emulate their barbaric, pedophilia-practising prophet, Muhammad. 

But the media refers to the strict followers of Islam as "Islamic extremists," or  "Islamists," as if an Islamist is different from a Muslim who follows his or her religion in an orthodox way.  Even today, Muslims are burning the American flag and Christian churches all over the world, and they are killing "non-believers" (a term they use to describe anyone not Muslim, and therefore not a person believing in the one true god, Allah).  The "religion of peace" allows for the stoning of women for not wearing a cloth tent, or for committing adultery or allowing the bread man into their home for a delivery when a husband or male chaperone wasn't at home.  The "religion of peace" continues to fire rockets at Israel while playing the victim to the world, claiming their rights as Palestinians, as if that was ever a legitimate country.  They have beheaded more innocent victims, and continue to attempt to impose Sharia Law upon nations in which they inhabit as guests.  And still there are the "useful idiots," the media being the most useful and the most idiotic, who refuse to point out the real cause of most of the terrorism in the world: Islam.

To think that we have bent over backwards for Islam and cowered over their cries of "Islamophobia" when they insisted on building a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero. To think that we felt guilty when their Muslim Brotherhood inspired imams showed their self-righteous indignation for questioning this request, and their refusal of the pleas of families who lost love ones, who were simply asking them to be sensitive. And then to have the leftist media stand up for these barbarians--that's straight out of the "identifying with the enemy" mentality often seen by the weakest of the victims.  This is what has become of the left and of the media.  Once a powerful nation of people you didn't mess with, much of America has become a nation of guilt-ridden socialist-leaning cowards who refuse to identify the enemy.  

By failing to identify our enemies, we have emulated the ostrich and have made ourselves vulnerable and weak.  If our current President continues to preside over our nation, I shudder to think how much weaker we will become, and what will become of us when this happens.

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist who is captured by terrorists and who is to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, giving in to terrorist demands is against American policy, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

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