Eight years later, the wounds are growing worse.
Only minimally fractured, and boosted anew by President Obama’s benign foreign policy, the Taliban, al Qaeda and their devil-spawn of anti-American jihadists, remain rabid in their desire to kill defenders of freedom.
Of that there is no doubt.
Now, Iraqis are free of America, thanks to whom they are also rid of a merciless despot, who employed rapists on his payroll and gassed to death his own men, women and children.
At its wits ends and justifiably baffled, the State Department is confronted by the age-old dilemma of high-stakes politics %u2013 who among the bad blokes can be persuaded to defect? In corrupt, lawless, nuke-yearning societies, that is hard to discern, and even harder to achieve, especially when time is of the essence.
On September 11, we assembled across the nation to remember and mourn the victims of that sunny Tuesday morning when hate-filled Muslim hijackers spilled their personal frustrations onto our shores, annihilating close to 3,000 people for a reason not known to this day.
At the time, President George W. Bush had vowed to “hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.” The tall task, undermined by the tide of time and a new generation, remains unfinished for the unforeseeable future unless help is solicited from the only viable source left: moderate Muslims.
Eight years have passed since our sworn enemies deliberately crashed two jets into the World Trade Center, slammed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and smashed a fourth plane into a field near Shanksville, Pa., wiping out 2,993 people, whose only crime was to show up for work that morning.
To date, beyond annoying wails of self-pity and a bleak smattering of weak, good-face memorials, the universal Muslim community has not taken sufficient public umbrage, nor expressed deep sorrow, nor demonstrated a desire for remonstration, nor weighed upon the malice aforethought of Islam’s terrorists. Why not?
It is a matter of public record that mainstream Muslims have spent the past eight years howling victim instead of offering vital solace to 9/11 victims by helping seek out and bring to justice Islam’s terrorists, and the sponsors who fund and hide them; such an insular, grapevine-dependent community is well aware of its own evil-doers and where they lurk. Count on it.
A religion is only as good as its faithful and one would think that, by now, intelligent and introspective practitioners would have reflected %u2013 perhaps upon their fifth prayer of the day %u2013 about how and why their community and faith are key players in all that is wrong with the world today.
On September 11, it would have well-resonated with the masses if Muslims, who claim that violent fanatics compose only a small fraction of their fold, would have issued a global call of remorse for the families of 9/11 victims, and for all those around the world who have lost loved ones to Islam’s fundamentalism. Plus, underscored it with a world-wide media blitz disavowing Muslims who are terrorists, and professing their allegiance to the Free World, which they appear to far prefer as a domicile above their own tyrannical nations, or those of their forefathers.
It behooves all Muslims, who want to repair their broken reputation on the world stage, to mobilize a global convention on Islam and detonate its ticking human time bombs because decent people everywhere are still waiting for some long, overdue answers that cannot be swept under the prayer mat.
