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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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From: Gary Bauer


Remembering 9/11

For those of you who may be new to the "End of Day" report, on the morning of September 11, 2001, I was driving past the Pentagon on my way to Capitol Hill when a hijacked plane slammed into the nerve center of America's military power. The force of the explosion rocked my car and those around me.

As I veered onto the Memorial Bridge I could see smoke and flames billowing out of the Pentagon. I had friends and neighbors who worked there -- people who dedicated their lives to the defense of our nation. Some had survived foreign battlefields only to die at the heart of America's government and power.

Here we are 18 years after 9/11. Some of the children born on that fateful day are today joining the ranks of our great military to fight in a war that still rages around the world.

It still grates on me when I hear people refer to 9/11 as "a tragedy." We don't refer to Pearl Harbor as a tragedy. It was more than a tragedy. It was an act of war. It was an atrocity.

It is also grates on me when someone like Rep. Ilhan Omar says, "Some people did something." And apparently Nicholas Haros ([link removed]) was also upset by that outrageous statement. Thank you, Mr. Haros! You spoke for millions of us today.

For the past 18 years, there has been an ongoing effort by Islamic supremacists to bring down the West. Virtually every major European city has had to drag its dead out of rubble. London ([link removed]) . Paris ([link removed]) . Berlin ([link removed]) . Brussels ([link removed]) . Madrid. ([link removed]) Manchester ([link removed]) . Nice ([link removed]) .

There have been similar atrocities in cities around the world. Bali ([link removed]) . Mumbai ([link removed]) . Sri Lanka ([link removed]) . Nairobi ([link removed]) . Ankara ([link removed]) . Belsan ([link removed]) .

We have experienced attacks in San Bernardino ([link removed]) , Fort Hood ([link removed]) , Orlando ([link removed]) , Boston ([link removed]) , Chattanooga ([link removed]) , Little Rock ([link removed]) , and Manhattan ([link removed]) . An untold number of attacks have been thwarted by the diligent work of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Unfortunately, many Americans have gone back to sleep, even though the threat remains ([link removed]) . Others have turned the war against radical Islam into a civil rights issue. Perhaps the most depressing part of what has happened in the years since is that so few are willing to publicly name the enemy ([link removed]) .

The struggle we're in for the survival of civilization is often referred to as "the war on terror." That is ludicrous. It's like referring to World War II as a "war on Panzers," without any reference to the Nazis. Incredibly, the New York Times appeared to blame "airplanes ([link removed]) " for the attack.

All over the Western world, young people are lectured to respect Islam. Fair enough. We should be respectful of other faiths and views.

But I am not aware of any educational effort in the Islamic world, not in Saudi Arabia or Somalia, Indonesia or Iran, aimed at teaching young Muslims to respect westerners and non-Muslims. In fact, in many Muslim nations, they are taught Islamic supremacy and it comes in many forms, whether Sunni or Shiite.

When Donald Trump called for "extreme vetting" and tried to restrict immigration from certain Islamic nations for obvious reasons, many people resisted his commonsense efforts to secure our homeland and denounced his order as a "Muslim ban."

Incredibly, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, has been able to avoid justice after all this time due to our politically correct confusion. It was recently announced that his trial has been scheduled for 2021.

(By the way, just a few years ago, Mohammed wrote in a letter ([link removed]) from Gitmo to President Obama that I had to be destroyed.)

Americans who watched their sons and daughters die at the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers have since died themselves without seeing Mohammed brought to justice.

In addition, hundreds of jihadists, particularly during the Obama years, were released from Gitmo. Lorraine Arias-Beliveau ([link removed]) , whose brother was murdered 9/11, said this morning that Gitmo seemed like a "sanctuary state" to her. What a powerful analogy.

In World War II, we did things very differently. Two teams of Nazi saboteurs ([link removed]) infiltrated the United States in the summer of 1942. They were captured within days, tried by a military tribunal and executed in a matter of weeks.

The Nuremberg trials of the remaining Nazi leadership began in November 1945 and concluded in October 1946. Ten defendants sentenced to death were executed two weeks after the trials ended. That's the kind of decisiveness that stems from courage and confidence in the righteousness of a just cause.

And the defense of Western Civilization against the barbarism of radical Islam, which today is demanding a second Holocaust through the annihilation ([link removed]) of the state of Israel, is most certainly a just and righteous cause.



Tune In Tomorrow

Tomorrow afternoon, I will be leading a 45-minute informal webinar on religious persecution in China. The webinar is sponsored by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and will focus on China's egregious persecution of all faiths, including Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and members of the Falun Gong.

The webinar will take place tomorrow at 1:00 PM ET. Participation is limited, so please register now ([link removed]) .

For more information, contact Henry Young at [email protected].



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