Remembering 9-11 in Tennessee

by Rebecca Bynum (Sept. 12, 2011)

remembrance event in Franklin, Tennessee which was attended by over 550 people yesterday. He spoke of looking ahead even as we remember the attack of ten years ago and set a solemn, yet hopeful tone which was perfectly appropriate to the occasion.

hate-mongering Islamophobes anyway, so I don’t fully understand the effort to be politically correct at this late date. It may reveal some lingering confusion as to the nature of Islam and possibly the inability (or doubt in the inability of others) to separate Islam from Muslims as human beings, but this is a minor quibble with what was on the whole a very good program.

1) We must hold our loved ones close and not take them for granted.

2) We are all Israelis now. The jihadist who attacked on 9-11 are the same people who carry out terror attacks on Israel. We share a common enemy.

3) Personal choices have international implications. Every time we fill up the tank, some of that money goes to fund madrassas indoctrinating children in hatred.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance which produced (in collaboration with the Tennessee Freedom Coalition) the documentary Losing Our Sons which was premiered in its complete form yesterday. You may remember how The Tennessean ridiculed the short version while refusing to put it up on their website for people to see and to judge for themselves.

jihad by SUV terror attack at North Carolina University at Chapel Hill were both minimized and discounted by the Justice Department so that the mantra of “no terror attacks since 9-11” could be maintained. Obama has simply amended that policy to “no successful terror attacks since 9-11.”

Long, however, feels that both the government and the military have abandoned his son on the battlefield. The Pentagon has refused to issue him a purple heart. He quoted First Corinthians: “If the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will prepare for battle?”

Here is an interview with Daris Long done shortly after the shooting.

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