Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:51 PM PST
Men and women, some whose clothes were still marked with gray
ash, walked dazedly toward Union Square. Many did not know what to do or
where to go. So they kept on walking. They knew the country was under attack,
but they did not know how bad it was or what might still be heading for them.
Behind
them lay a changed city and thousands of American dead. Ahead was the bronze
statue of George Washington, facing into the devastation and raising his hand
to lead his men forward in victory. Around its base, with the destruction of
the World Trade Center as their backdrop, leftists had set up shop, coloring
anti-war posters even while rescue workers were risking their lives at Ground
Zero.
In the coming days, the statue of Washington would be repeatedly vandalized
by leftists drawing peace signs and “No War” and “War is Not the Answer”
slogans on it. But that moment crystallized my realization that while Muslim
terrorists had carried out the attack, it was the left we would have to
fight.
While some New Yorkers had gone to help the victims of Islamic terrorists,
the left had rushed to aid the terrorists. Unlike the rest of us, they were
not shocked or horrified by the attack. They were treasonously working on
ways to spin the murder of thousands of Americans to protect the enemy.
The greatest obstacle to defeating Islamic terrorism is still the left.
The left helped create Islamic terrorism; its immigration policies import
terrorism while its civil rights arm obstructs efforts to prevent it and its
anti-war rallies attack any effort to fight it. In America, in Europe and in
Israel, and around the world, to get at Islamic terrorists, you have to go
through the left.
When a Muslim terrorist comes to America, it’s the left that agitates to
admit him. Before he kills, it’s the left that fights to protect him from the
FBI. Afterward, leftists offer to be his lawyers. The left creates the crisis
and then it fights against any effort to deal with it except through
surrender and appeasement.
Islamic violence against non-Muslims predated the left. But it’s the left
that made it our problem. Islamic terrorism in America or France exists
because of Muslim immigration. And the left is obsessed with finding new ways
to import more Muslims. Merkel is praised for opening up a Europe already
under siege by Islamic terror, Sharia police, no-go zones and sex grooming and
groping gangs, to millions.
The left feverishly demands that the whole world follow her lead. Bill Gates
would like America to be just like Germany. Israel’s deranged Labor Party
leader Herzog urged the Jewish State to open its doors.
And then, after the next round of stabbings, car burnings and terror attacks,
they blame the West for not “integrating” the un-integratable millions who
had no more interest in being integrated than their leftist patrons do in
moving to Pakistan and praying to Allah on a threadbare rug. But
“integration” is a euphemism for a raft of leftist agenda items from social
services spending to punishing hate speech (though never that of the Imams
crying for blood and death, but only of their native victims) to a foreign
policy based on appeasement and surrender. Islamic terrorists kill and
leftists profit from the carnage.
The ongoing threat of Islamic terrorism is a manufactured crisis that the
left cultivates because that gives it power. In a world without 9/11, the
Obama presidency would never have existed. Neither would the Arab Spring and
the resulting migration and wholesale transformation of Western countries.
In the UK, Labour used Muslim immigration as a deliberate political program
to “change the country.” In Israel, Labor struck an illegal deal with Arafat
that put sizable portions of the country under the control of terrorists
while forcing the Jewish State into a series of concessions to terrorists and
the left. The same fundamental pattern of Labour and Labor and the whole left
is behind the rise of Islamic terrorism.
Muslim terrorism creates pressure that the left uses to achieve policy goals.
Even when it can’t win elections, Muslim terrorism allows the left to create
a crisis and then to set an agenda.
The left’s patronage of Islamic terrorists for its own political purposes
follows a thread back to the origin of Islamic terrorism. Islamic violence
against non-Muslims dates back to the founding of Islam, but the tactics of
modern Islamic terrorism owe as much to Lenin as they do to Mohammed.
Today’s Islamic terrorist is the product of traditional Islamic theology and
Soviet tactics. The USSR did not intend to create Al Qaeda, but they provided
training and doctrine to terrorists from the Muslim world. The “secular” and
“progressive” terrorists of the left either grew Islamist, like Arafat, or
their tactics were copied and expanded on, like the PFLP, by a new generation
of Islamic terrorists.
The earlier phase of Islamic organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood,
had been inspired by fascists who were seeking to use them in their own wars.
Over this layer of secret societies plotting takeovers and building networks
of front groups, the Soviet Union added the terror tactics that had been
employed by the left. And the leftist mad bomber became the Muslim suicide
bomber. Terrorism in the Muslim world has evolved from functioning as a Third
World proxy army for the left, in much the same way as guerrillas and
terrorists from Asia, Africa and Latin America had, to a diaspora whose
migrations lend a domestic terror arm to a Western left whose own spiteful
activists have grown unwilling to put their lives on the line and go beyond
tweeting words to throwing bombs.
With the Muslim Brotherhood, the origin organization of Al Qaeda, ISIS and
Hamas, among many others, so tightly integrated into the American and
European left that it is often hard to see where one begins and the other
ends, Islam has become the militant arm of the purportedly secular left.
Western leftists and Islamists have formed the same poisonous relationship as
Middle Eastern leftists and Islamists did leading to the rise of the
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Arab Spring. Leftists expected Islamists to do the
dirty work while they would take over. Instead the Islamists won and killed
them.
Having learned nothing from the Hitler-Stalin pact, the left has replayed the
same betrayal with the Mohammed-Stalin pact in the Middle East and now in the
West. But the end of the Mohammed-Stalin pact will not be a Socialist
totalitarian utopia, but an Islamic theocracy of slaves, terror and death.
On September 11, I saw with my own eyes how eager and willing leftists were
to rush to the aid of Islamic terrorists even while their fellow Americans
were dying. Nothing has changed. Every Islamic act of brutality is met with
lies and spin, with mass distraction and deception by the treasonous left.
Every effort to fight Islamic terrorists is sabotaged, undermined and
protested by the enemy within.
Since September 11, the left has trashed the FBI’s counterterrorism and has
now succeeded in destroying the NYPD’s counterrorism while transforming the
FDNY into an affirmative action project. What the September 11 hijackers
could never accomplish on their own, the leftists did for them by defeating
the three forces that had stood against Islamic terrorists on that day. And
it would not surprise me at all if some of the “No War” scribblers have gone
on to play an influential role in that treason.
The left has crippled domestic and international counterterrorism. American
soldiers are not allowed to shoot terrorists and the FBI and NYPD can’t
monitor mosques or even be taught what to look for. Islamic terrorism has
achieved unprecedented influence and power under Obama. ISIS has created the
first functioning caliphate and Iran marches toward the first Jihadist
nuclear bomb. The mass Muslim migration is beginning a process that will
Islamize Europe far more rapidly than anyone expects.
The Jihad would not be a significant threat without the collaboration of the
left. Without the left standing in the way, it’s a problem that could be
solved in a matter of years. With the aid of the left, it threatens human
civilization with a dark age that will erase our culture, our future and our
freedom.
We cannot defeat Islam without defeating the left. That is the lesson I
learned on September 11. It is a lesson that appears truer every single year
as the left finds new ways to endanger us all.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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