Read: Falling Through Fire
When someone told me a plane had just hit the World Trade Center, I thought they meant a Cessna. I would imagine a lot of people had that reaction on 9/11.
That’s exactly what I thought when I heard on the radio about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. I had just started my day (in the basement) at the commercial photography studio where I worked, turned on the radio, and got ready to start cutting a mat to frame a print. The talk radio show I listened to was discussing this plane. And I just assumed it was likely a small aircraft, thinking perhaps the pilot had a heart attack or some other medical or technical emergency, and I was hoping not too many people were hurt.
Then the second plane hit. I tore upstairs as fast as I could to the lunchroom where we had a little 12 inch black & white TV. I stood there in complete shock. I immediately called my husband, who is self-employed and works from home, and told him to turn on the TV. He asked, “What channel?” I told him it makes no difference — any channel.
But I don’t think I actually started crying until I heard about the plane that hit the Pentagon and then United 93. I wondered how many more…
Anyway, that’s what I remember — not the politically-correct crap spewed by the Whitewash House.
Also read and listen here…
Eight years later: Remembrance and resolve
Eight years later: Listen
Plus:
Eight years after 9/11, where’s the Islamophobia?
Far from Islamophobia, what actually happened after 9/11 was a wave of Islamophilia second only to Obamamania for its lack of rational foundation and utopian faith in symbolism over reality. The more it became apparent that religious fanaticism was the motivating principle behind 9/11, the more any criticism of multiculturalism or Islam in particular was stifled, and the more we heard about Islam being a religion of peace.
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A conspiracy of silence around unpleasant news and facts emerged. Anyone for example writing a book criticizing Islam was unlikely to see their work reviewed in the New York Times.
Barbara Kay forgot to mention Alms for Jihad, a book that was recalled and destroyed by the dhimmi publisher who caved in to the influence of the jihadists.
The book bannings/shunnings, the HRC inquisitions into the “anti-Islamic” Levant and Steyn, Newspeak terms like “anti-Islamic activity” or “man-caused disaster” in place of terrorist attack. These are things I’ll also remember.
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