On the television screen in front of me burned the north tower of the World Trade Center. While the news commentator explained that a plane had crashed into the building, I watched another airliner appear in the picture on the live feed and fly directly into the south tower…boom.
“That was no accident,” I said out loud to my television. Within seconds my reason searched through my memory. I’ve seen this before, I thought.
My mind had already made the connection to an incident I’d witnessed fifteen years earlier while reporting in the Middle East. On that day I drove my car up the mountain road and parked in front of the Arazim Hotel in Metulla, Israel, where I was going to eat lunch.
Located next to the Lebanon-Israeli border on the Israeli side, the Arazim Hotel had a direct line of sight into the Valley of the Springs on the Lebanese side of the border. From my table on the terrace I watched a small Israeli troop convoy that had passed through the border and was driving right to left across the Valley of the Springs just a few hundred yards beyond the border fence inside Lebanon.
A small pickup truck descended the mountain road just south of Dier Mimas and approached the lead Israeli jeep moving the opposite direction toward the Shiite village of El Khiam. The officer in the lead Israeli jeep motioned the truck to the side of the road. It obeyed but suddenly pulled back on the road running into a passing troop truck…BOOOOM!! The pickup morphed into a huge ball of orange flame and black smoke.
As I watched the plane fly into the second tower the morning of 9/11, my memory connected that incident to this suicide bombing I’d seen years earlier, the motion of one object deliberately colliding with another and morphing into flame. The tactics were identical. Then, from deep within came a message: “They’re here. The war for America has begun.”
When I left the Middle East in 1986, I knew it could happen. I just didn’t know when. However, after fifteen years I relaxed thinking, I must have been wrong. But I wasn’t.
As I fought through my own tears of grief and heartache in the days following 9/11, I remembered my eyewitness experiences from the Middle East, and I reminded myself that the role of terror is to manipulate the living through pain and fear. I suppose that’s where we are today, eagerly desiring peace and vulnerable to a lie.
Thirteen years before 9/11 the Islamic scholar, Bernard Lewis, wrote that there are two worlds in Islam, the world of war and the world of peace. All people outside Islam are in a constant state of war against Allah. Therefore, Allah gives his followers permission to lie to all unbelievers so Islam will gain the advantage. In The Political Language of Islam professor Lewis explains that the military struggle for world conquest called “jihad” is an obligation on all Muslims. He explains that Islamic law allows only for temporary cease-fires and no peace treaties. [Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988) p.73]
My fellow Americans, our civilization is the target of a war, not a peaceful, religious movement. Islamic radicals are behind the smiles and peaceful overtures. The gestures of peace we hear today are nothing more than lies meant to trick us into a creeping submission to Islam. Take the bait. Give in a little here and there.
Make no mistake. In the days ahead there will be more Islamic attacks on the innocent and unsuspecting in America. After those future attacks will come their media campaign blaming America. Why did we go to Iraq? Why are we fighting in Afghanistan? Why do we support Israel? Why do we dislike Muslims? Behind all the questions is the real hidden agenda. Why don’t we Islamize America?
So, whether it’s an attack of terror or a lie about a peaceful solution, don’t give in and don’t be fooled. Remember those who fought back and gave their lives on 9/11. The fate of our nation depends on your steadfast resolve to win.
G. Scott McGregor
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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/309925/june-01-2010/ayaan-hirsi-ali
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