2010/09/17
9/11: The mother of all coincidences
Saturday, September 18, 2010
9/11: The mother of all coincidences
By Eric Margolis
Ever since 9/11, readers keep asking me my views on these attacks. I have been barraged with emails until my head spins with engineering studies about melting steel, controlled explosions, claims about nefarious plots, and wreckage analysis.
One of the most colorful theories comes from Gen. Hamid Gul, former director of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI. He insists that 9/11 was staged by Israel’s Mossad and a cabal of rightwing U.S. Air Force generals.
While visiting the Pentagon to consult on the Mideast, I also inspected its outside wall hit by the third hijacked aircraft.
I saw photos of the impact site and could not understand what had happened to all the aircraft wreckage. There was almost none.
In 1993, I was hijacked over Germany on a Lufthansa flight bound for Cairo. The Ethiopian hijacker took us all the way back to New York City. The hijacker was threatening to crash our A310 jumbo jet into Wall Street.
Our flight was shadowed by U.S. F-15 fighters that had orders to shoot, if necessary. Where, then, was U.S. air defense on 11 Sept. 2001?
A day after 9/11, I was asked on CNN if Osama bin Laden was behind the attack. ‘We have yet to see the evidence,’ I replied. I maintain this position today. Bin Laden denied he or Al-Qaeda was behind 9/11 and the death’s of nearly 3,000 people. The plot was hatched in Hamburg, Germany and Madrid, Spain, not in Afghanistan. A Pakistani, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, claimed he was the mastermind -- after being tortured by near-drowning 183 times by the CIA.
While denying involvement, Osama bin Laden did say he believed the attack on New York was in part motivated by Israel’s destruction of downtown Beirut during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon that inflicted some 18,000 civilian deaths.
Tapes that appeared to confirm bin Laden’s guilt were clumsy fakes. They were supposedly “found” in Afghanistan by the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance, which was created and funded by Russian intelligence.
I had met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and told CNN viewers that he was not the man in the tapes.
After 9/11, Secretary of State Colin Powell promised Americans the State Department would issue a White Paper detailing bin Laden’s guilt. Afghanistan’s Taliban government asked for this document before it would extradite bin Laden, as the U.S. was demanding. The White Paper was never produced, and the U.S. ignored proper legal procedure and invaded Afghanistan. We still wait for evidence.
I remain uncertain that Osama bin Laden was really behind the attacks. Much circumstantial evidence points to him and Al-Qaeda, but conclusive proof still lacks. One thing is certain: the attacks were planned and mounted from Germany, not Afghanistan. Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were Saudis, two from the United Arab Emirates, one an Egyptian and a Lebanese.
By the way, I’ve said ever since 9/11 that the danger and size of Al-Qaeda has been vastly exaggerated -- as an explosive report this week by the London’s esteemed International Institute for Strategic Studies has just confirmed. Al-Qaida, dedicated to fighting the Afghan Communists, never had more than 300 members at its peak.
Today, according to CIA chief Leon Panetta, there are no more than 50 Al-Qaeda men in Afghanistan. Yet President Barack Obama has tripled the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 120,000 because of what to calls the Al-Qaeda threat. What is going on?
Many people abroad believe Al-Qaeda is an American invention used to justify foreign military operations. I do not share this view. Osama bin Laden was never a U.S. agent, though his group indirectly received funds from CIA to fight the Communists.
Back to 9/11. I still cannot understand how amateur pilots could manage to maneuver in low to hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon. As a Pakistani intelligence agent told me, “if they were really amateur Arab pilots, they would have crashed into one another, not the World Trade Center!”
The arrest of Israeli “movers” filming the attack and dancing with joy, and the subsequent arrest of groups of Israeli “students” supposedly tracking the would-be hijackers remains a deep mystery. So does the immobilization of U.S. air defenses.
The U.S. 9/11 Commission was a whitewash, as are all such government commissions. They are designed to obscure, not reveal, the truth. A 2006, a Scripps Howard/Washington Post poll found that 36% of the 1,000 Americans sampled believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11. Many Americans still do not believe the official version of 9/11.
Neither do many Europeans. The entire Muslim world believes 9/11 was the work of Israel and far right American neocons, led by Dick Cheney.
If the official story about 9/11 is true, the attacks caught the Bush administration asleep on guard duty. Bush’s incompetent national security advisor, Condoleeza Rice, brushed off serious warnings of the impending attack and actually cut spending on anti-terrorism just before 9/11.
The White House and media were quick to blame Muslims who hated America’s lifestyle and values, launching the concept of “Islamic terrorism” -- i.e. that the Muslim faith, not political issues, prompted the attacks.
This dangerous canard has infected America, leading to a rising tide of Islamophobia. This week’s continued uproar over a Muslim community center in downtown New York, and a Florida preacher’s threat to burn Korans, are the latest doleful example of cultivated religious hatred.
The suicide team that attacked New York and Washington made clear its aim was: a. to punish the U.S. for backing Israel’s repression of Palestinians; and b. what they called U.S. “occupation” of Saudi Arabia. Though they were all Muslims, religion was not the motivating factor.
As the CIA’s former bin Laden expert Michael Scheuer rightly observed, the Muslim world was furious at the U.S. for what it was doing in their region, not because of America’s values, liberties or religion.
These motives for the 9/11 attack have been largely obscured by the whipping up hysteria over “Islamic terrorism.” The planting of anthrax in New York, Florida and Washington soon after 9/11 was clearly designed to promote further anti-Muslim furor. The perpetrators of this red herring remain unknown. But the anthrax attack hastened passage of the semi-totalitarian Patriot Act that sharply limited the personal freedoms of Americans and imposed draconian new laws.
Faked bin Laden videos and audio tapes. Planted anthrax. An intact Koran implausibly found at ground zero. Evidence in a hijacker’s bag that had somehow failed to make his ill-fated flight. Immediate claims that Al-Qaeda was behind the attacks. Those amateur kamikaze pilots and collapsing towers.
Perhaps most damning, tapes taken in London of meetings between President George Bush and PM Tony Blair revealed a sinister proposal by the U.S. president to provoke war with Iraq by painting U.S. aircraft in UN colors, then buzzing Iraqi air defenses until they fired on them, thus providing a “casus belli.” Bush also reportedly told Blair that after Iraq, he would “go on” to attack Saudi Arabia, Syria and Pakistan.
In 1939, Nazi Germany dressed up soldiers in Polish uniforms to provoke a border fire-fight to justify Berlin’s ensuing invasion of Poland. Bush’s plan was of the same ilk. A president who would contemplate such a criminal operation might go a lot further to achieve his imperial dreams.
As a veteran journalist, to me, all this smells to high heaven. There are just too many unanswered questions, too many suspicions, and that old Roman legal question, “cui bono” -- “to whose benefit?”
On 28 February, 1933, fire, set by a Dutch Jew, ravaged the Germany’s parliament, the Reichstag. While the Reichstag’s ruins were still smoking, Adolf Hitler’s government declared a war against “terrorism.” A “Decree for the Protection of People and State” was promulgated suspending all legal protections of speech, assembly, property, and personal liberties. The Reichstag fire allowed the government to round up “terrorism” suspects without due process of law and made police powers near absolute.
Sound familiar? Here’s another startling coincidence. Two years before 9/11, a series of mysterious apartment building bombings in Russia killed over 200 people. “Islamic terrorists” from Chechnya were blamed.
Panic swept Russia and boosted former KGB agent Vladimir Putin into full power. Russian security agents of FSB were caught red-handed planting explosives in another building, but the story was hushed up. A former FSB agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who tried to reveal this story, was murdered in London by radioactive polonium.
Similarly, the Bush administration’s neocons shamelessly used 9/11 to promote the invasion of Iraq. Just before the attack, polls showed 80% of Americans erroneously believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Dr. Goebbels would have been proud.
So what, in the end, can we conclude? 1. We still do not know the real story about 9/11. 2. The official version is not credible. 3. 9/11 was used to justify invading strategic Afghanistan and oil-rich Iraq. 4. The attacks plunged America into wars against the Muslim world and enriched the U.S. arms industry. 5. 9/11 boosted pro-Israel neoconservatives, formerly a fringe group, into power, and with them America’s totalitarian far right. 6. Bush’s unprovoked war against Iraq destroyed one of Israel’s two main enemies. 7. 9/11 put America in what may turn out to be a permanent state of war with the Muslim world -- a key goal of the neoconservatives.
But I’ve seen no hard evidence to date that 9/11 was a plot by America’s far right or by Israel or a giant cover-up. Just, perhaps, the Mother of All Coincidences. In the end, it may just have been 19 angry Arabs and a bumbling Bush administration looking for someone else to blame.
Eric Margolis is the author of War at the Top of the World and the new book, American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World.
(Mycatbirdseat.com)
Evidence that GOP is behind the Quran Burning Islamophobia of Pastor Jones.
Evidence that GOP is behind the Quran Burning Islamophobia of Pastor Jones.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from high school together. SOURCE
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Corpse Media promotes Islamophobia while pretending to condemn it. Analysis: Corpse Media is caught using the harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by GOP hate-mongers like Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ).
On 9/11/2010, President Obama paid tribute to those who died in the 9/11 attacks amid controversy over plans for an Islamic centre near Ground Zero and a threat to burn the Quran. The President declared that America would never be at war with Islam. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," he said.
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Following Obama, Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered the GOP Weekly Address where it was evident that the GOP's radical right had intended to use Terry Jones' harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by Kyle.
Each story has at it's core the presumed guilt of Muslims as the chief perpetrators in the 9/11 attacks; an allegation that neither the government or a court of law has found to be true. In fact, evidence gathered after 2009 points to a massive government cover-up where Muslims have been used as scapegoats for the 9/11 disaster.
The GOP's eager endorsment of Jones' Islamophobic hate speech points to a conspiracy of media propaganda that used the Quran Burn story as an incindiary companion to the manufactured Islamophobia generated by the Ground Zero Mosque propaganda . Further evidence is provided in that Corpse News completely ignored the story you are now reading.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from the same high school in 1969. SOURCE
RELATED ARTICLE:
Senator Kyle: 911 Anniversary Should Make Us Think Hard
By Bob Ellis on September 11th, 2010
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Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered this week’s GOP Weekly Address, and it contains an important message for all Americans.
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“The enemy is the militant Islamist ideology that candidly, boldly and uncompromisingly seeks to destroy liberal western culture and governments and replace them with the medieval concept of an Islamist caliphate governed by Sharia law.”
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“Our decisive actions after the 911 attack have made us safer; but, ironically, the very fact that we have less fear of being attacked has frayed the bonds of unity that enabled us to act so boldly in the aftermath of the attack.” Source:
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Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from high school together. SOURCE
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Corpse Media promotes Islamophobia while pretending to condemn it. Analysis: Corpse Media is caught using the harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by GOP hate-mongers like Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ).
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Following Obama, Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered the GOP Weekly Address where it was evident that the GOP's radical right had intended to use Terry Jones' harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by Kyle.
Each story has at it's core the presumed guilt of Muslims as the chief perpetrators in the 9/11 attacks; an allegation that neither the government or a court of law has found to be true. In fact, evidence gathered after 2009 points to a massive government cover-up where Muslims have been used as scapegoats for the 9/11 disaster.
The GOP's eager endorsment of Jones' Islamophobic hate speech points to a conspiracy of media propaganda that used the Quran Burn story as an incindiary companion to the manufactured Islamophobia generated by the Ground Zero Mosque propaganda . Further evidence is provided in that Corpse News completely ignored the story you are now reading.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from the same high school in 1969. SOURCE
RELATED ARTICLE:
Senator Kyle: 911 Anniversary Should Make Us Think Hard
By Bob Ellis on September 11th, 2010
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Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered this week’s GOP Weekly Address, and it contains an important message for all Americans.
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“The enemy is the militant Islamist ideology that candidly, boldly and uncompromisingly seeks to destroy liberal western culture and governments and replace them with the medieval concept of an Islamist caliphate governed by Sharia law.”
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“Our decisive actions after the 911 attack have made us safer; but, ironically, the very fact that we have less fear of being attacked has frayed the bonds of unity that enabled us to act so boldly in the aftermath of the attack.” Source:
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Dr. Hesham Tillawi Debunks the GOP Fear-Mongers of Sharia Law
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2010/09/16
City Commission is captive audience to 6 minutes of WTC-7 Collapse video.
Gainesville Florida, 9/16/2010: Seven members of the City Commission were captive audience, obliged to witness the collapse of WTC-7 over and over. A continuous loop showing the collapse from 2 cameras commanded jaw-dropping attention of the Commission, City Manager and gallery for 6 full minutes.
2010/09/13
Faiz Khan - Associate of Ground Zero Mosque Founder says 9/11 was an Inside Job
A founding member of an organization run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the planned mosque near Ground Zero, claims that the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job" and that Muslims have been made scapegoats, The Post has learned.
Faiz Khan -- who has preached at least twice at the former Burlington Coat Factory building, the site of the proposed mosque -- was for years Rauf's partner in the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, which is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of Islam.
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Khan also serves on the advisory board of Muslims for 9/11 Truth and is a founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, known as MUJCA.
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RUSHDIE IN MOSQUE'S CORNER
On MUJCA's Web site, Khan wrote that "the inescapable fact [is] that 9/11 was an inside job."
"The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as 'militant Islam,' although the phenomenon known as 'militant Islamic networks' may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role -- perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat," he wrote in documents uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
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Khan was listed as one of three directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims in its 1997 incorporation papers, when it went by the name of the American Sufi Muslim Association.
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ASMA and Rauf's Cordoba Initiative are spearheading the drive to create a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.
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In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Khan said he ended his affiliation with the ASMA in "2002 and 2003," although that claim is contradicted by a record of him speaking at a 2006 ASMA conference in Copenhagen, where his bio listed him as a board member.
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When The Post asked Khan who he thought was responsible for 9/11, he initially declined comment, but later said in an e-mail: "I am certain of a few things . . . The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the 'inside.' "
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Ray Locker, managing director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said: "For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it's odd that one of Feisal Rauf's fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an 'inside job' by the US government."
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Khan told a group of 9/11 deniers at a 2006 Chicago summit called "Revealing the Truth/Reclaiming Our Future" that "the most logical explanation" for 9/11 is that the hijackers were working for corporate America and that the heroin trade creates "billions of dollars" that are laundered by "Citicorp and Procter and Gamble."
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Rauf's spokesman didn't return calls for comment.
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Meanwhile, Rauf said yesterday on ABC's "This Week" that he wasn't "making a threat" when he said moving the mosque would incite Islamic extremists to attack the United States -- although he insisted the warning held true.
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"I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never," Rauf said.
Read more - NY Post: CLICK HERE
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Below is a link to a version of his essay from 9/11 and American Empire v.2: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out, which explores the reasons why American Muslims have "dropped the ball" on 9/11.
http://www.amazon.com/11-American-Empire-Christians-Muslims/dp/1566566606
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The Paralysis of Discourse; The Incompetence of Academia, and The Need for an Accurate Diagnosis
http://www.mujca.com/muslims.htm
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Faiz Khan PhD: Bio: http://www.trad.umn.edu/faculty/medicalphysicists/khan/home.html
Related Article: CLICK HERE
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Khan also serves on the advisory board of Muslims for 9/11 Truth and is a founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, known as MUJCA.
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RUSHDIE IN MOSQUE'S CORNER
On MUJCA's Web site, Khan wrote that "the inescapable fact [is] that 9/11 was an inside job."
"The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as 'militant Islam,' although the phenomenon known as 'militant Islamic networks' may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role -- perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat," he wrote in documents uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
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Khan was listed as one of three directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims in its 1997 incorporation papers, when it went by the name of the American Sufi Muslim Association.
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ASMA and Rauf's Cordoba Initiative are spearheading the drive to create a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.
.
In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Khan said he ended his affiliation with the ASMA in "2002 and 2003," although that claim is contradicted by a record of him speaking at a 2006 ASMA conference in Copenhagen, where his bio listed him as a board member.
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When The Post asked Khan who he thought was responsible for 9/11, he initially declined comment, but later said in an e-mail: "I am certain of a few things . . . The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the 'inside.' "
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Ray Locker, managing director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said: "For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it's odd that one of Feisal Rauf's fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an 'inside job' by the US government."
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Khan told a group of 9/11 deniers at a 2006 Chicago summit called "Revealing the Truth/Reclaiming Our Future" that "the most logical explanation" for 9/11 is that the hijackers were working for corporate America and that the heroin trade creates "billions of dollars" that are laundered by "Citicorp and Procter and Gamble."
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Rauf's spokesman didn't return calls for comment.
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Meanwhile, Rauf said yesterday on ABC's "This Week" that he wasn't "making a threat" when he said moving the mosque would incite Islamic extremists to attack the United States -- although he insisted the warning held true.
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"I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never," Rauf said.
Read more - NY Post: CLICK HERE
.
Below is a link to a version of his essay from 9/11 and American Empire v.2: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out, which explores the reasons why American Muslims have "dropped the ball" on 9/11.
http://www.amazon.com/11-American-Empire-Christians-Muslims/dp/1566566606
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The Paralysis of Discourse; The Incompetence of Academia, and The Need for an Accurate Diagnosis
http://www.mujca.com/muslims.htm
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Faiz Khan PhD: Bio: http://www.trad.umn.edu/faculty/medicalphysicists/khan/home.html
Related Article: CLICK HERE
Evidence that GOP is behind the Quran Burning Islamophobia of Pastor Jones
Evidence that GOP is behind the Quran Burning Islamophobia of Pastor Jones.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from high school together. SOURCE
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Corpse Media promotes Islamophobia while pretending to condemn it. Analysis: Corpse Media is caught using the harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by GOP hate-mongers like Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalocBV0SGE
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On 9/11/2010, President Obama paid tribute to those who died in the 9/11 attacks amid controversy over plans for an Islamic centre near Ground Zero and a threat to burn the Quran. The President declared that America would never be at war with Islam. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," he said.
.
Following Obama, Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered the GOP Weekly Address where it was evident that the GOP's radical right had intended to use Terry Jones' harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by Kyle.
Each story has at it's core the presumed guilt of Muslims as the chief perpetrators in the 9/11 attacks; an allegation that neither the government or a court of law has found to be true. In fact, evidence gathered after 2009 points to a massive government cover-up where Muslims have been used as scapegoats for the 9/11 disaster.
The GOP's eager endorsment of Jones' Islamophobic hate speech points to a conspiracy of media propaganda that used the Quran Burn story as an incindiary companion to the manufactured Islamophobia generated by the Ground Zero Mosque propaganda . Further evidence is provided in that Corpse News completely ignored the story you are now reading.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from the same high school in 1969. SOURCE
RELATED ARTICLE:
Senator Kyle: 911 Anniversary Should Make Us Think Hard
By Bob Ellis on September 11th, 2010
.
Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered this week’s GOP Weekly Address, and it contains an important message for all Americans.
.
“The enemy is the militant Islamist ideology that candidly, boldly and uncompromisingly seeks to destroy liberal western culture and governments and replace them with the medieval concept of an Islamist caliphate governed by Sharia law.”
.
“Our decisive actions after the 911 attack have made us safer; but, ironically, the very fact that we have less fear of being attacked has frayed the bonds of unity that enabled us to act so boldly in the aftermath of the attack.” Source:
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Arizona has their own Department of Homeland Security SOURCE
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from high school together. SOURCE
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Corpse Media promotes Islamophobia while pretending to condemn it. Analysis: Corpse Media is caught using the harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by GOP hate-mongers like Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalocBV0SGE
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On 9/11/2010, President Obama paid tribute to those who died in the 9/11 attacks amid controversy over plans for an Islamic centre near Ground Zero and a threat to burn the Quran. The President declared that America would never be at war with Islam. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," he said.
.
Following Obama, Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered the GOP Weekly Address where it was evident that the GOP's radical right had intended to use Terry Jones' harsh Quran Burning Islamophobia narrative as mindwashing rehearsal for the soft porn version delivered by Kyle.
Each story has at it's core the presumed guilt of Muslims as the chief perpetrators in the 9/11 attacks; an allegation that neither the government or a court of law has found to be true. In fact, evidence gathered after 2009 points to a massive government cover-up where Muslims have been used as scapegoats for the 9/11 disaster.
The GOP's eager endorsment of Jones' Islamophobic hate speech points to a conspiracy of media propaganda that used the Quran Burn story as an incindiary companion to the manufactured Islamophobia generated by the Ground Zero Mosque propaganda . Further evidence is provided in that Corpse News completely ignored the story you are now reading.
Perhaps it's more than coincidence that Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh graduated from the same high school in 1969. SOURCE
RELATED ARTICLE:
Senator Kyle: 911 Anniversary Should Make Us Think Hard
By Bob Ellis on September 11th, 2010
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Senator Jon Kyle (R-AZ) delivered this week’s GOP Weekly Address, and it contains an important message for all Americans.
.
“The enemy is the militant Islamist ideology that candidly, boldly and uncompromisingly seeks to destroy liberal western culture and governments and replace them with the medieval concept of an Islamist caliphate governed by Sharia law.”
.
“Our decisive actions after the 911 attack have made us safer; but, ironically, the very fact that we have less fear of being attacked has frayed the bonds of unity that enabled us to act so boldly in the aftermath of the attack.” Source:
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Arizona has their own Department of Homeland Security SOURCE
2010/09/11
9/10 AE911Truth Actions in Gainesville
Ninth Anniversary 9/11 Action
9/10/2010, Gainesville, Fl: Gators911Truth picket at the University Ave and 13th Street with a 9/11 Sign cleverly placed inside the MSNBC head-shot view behind Pastor Terry Jones durung a 9/9 press release. - Bob Tuskin and Harold Saive are joioned by 2 more activists to hand out AE911Truth Broadsheet Newspapers and DVD's to the public from 4:30-7 PM.
2010/09/10
Chris Matthews Comments on "9/11 Truthers" at Dove World Press Conference
9/9/2010 - Gainesville, Florida - Chris Matthews Comments on "9/11 Truthers" at Dove World Press Conference
AE911Truth Crashes News Conference at Dove World to Challenge Pastor on new investigation.
9/11 Truth Crashes News Conference at Dove World to Challenge Pastor on new investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SRHqn-4Pk
Gainesville, Fl: 9/9/2010 - AE911Truth supporters crash news conference at Dove Outreach where Pastor Terry Jones convinced the Media he had canceled plans to burn Qurans on 9/11. Later, Jones would reverse his decision claiming a misunderstanding about a commitment to move the NYC mosque in exchange for canceling the Quran burn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SRHqn-4Pk
Gainesville, Fl: 9/9/2010 - AE911Truth supporters crash news conference at Dove Outreach where Pastor Terry Jones convinced the Media he had canceled plans to burn Qurans on 9/11. Later, Jones would reverse his decision claiming a misunderstanding about a commitment to move the NYC mosque in exchange for canceling the Quran burn.
2010/09/07
Don’t be duped by Dove World dimwits
INDEPENDANT ALLIGATOR
Don’t be duped by Dove World dimwits
.Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12:02 am | Updated: 9:46 pm, Mon Sep 6, 2010.
Tommy Maple, Alligator Columnist
At first glance, the plan by Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 seems like an easy target.
Chalk it up to the all-too-familiar notions of bigotry and accessible blasphemy, dressed up with a local flair by a bunch of apple-cheeked simpletons eager to flaunt their newfound infamy.
Dig a little deeper, though, and you find yourself scratching the surface of a global furniture trafficking ring cloaked in quasi-religious secrecy and abetted by a misplaced tax status and a small cadre of mouth-breathing white slaves.
Islam isn’t the real target of the Dove center’s misplaced hate.
The real enemy of our disgraceful Gainesville brethren is low-priced furniture manufactured in Asia and sold across this great land.
If they stayed true to their ideological roots, Dove World members would don T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Particle board is of the devil.”
“Pastor” Terry Jones and his wife Sylvia aren’t too keen on letting this little secret out of the bag, but their entire spread is completely financed by selling vintage furniture — the good stuff, mid-century pieces bought in Europe and shipped over here where it can be sold for a princely sum.
On eBay.com, Craigslist.com and other web outlets under the business name “TS & Company,” Dove World’s outreach pretty much consists of securing a good price for its used furniture and shipping it across the country using the free labor provided by its pitiful army of duped dopes.
Dove World disciples, for their undying and unpaid devotion to a cause as noble as freight shipping, get to live rent-free in the Jones’ crumbling duplexes in the Phoenix and Pine Ridge subdivisions and eat whatever scraps of food Terry Jones and his wife drop off on their dinner table.
That the Internet can both support a clandestine furniture business cloaked in depressingly popular hate mongering, and also expose its inner workings, is a testament to, and indictment of, our information superhighway.
Sept. 11 will never be a day that any American can ever consider “normal,” and each of us will remember the day in a way that brings us a small amount of personal tranquility birthed from the dust of a cowardly act of terrorism.
Instead of wrapping yourself up in the fanaticism and discrimination of the Dove World dimwits, perhaps a quiet day spent shopping for furniture at one of our many reputable and honest furniture stores would be time better spent.
I’m sure the hardworking salespeople could use the extra commissions.
Far be it from me to impugn the purity of an act as brave as book burning, but it seems the controversy surrounding the actions of Dove World Outreach Center is little more than a sophisticated viral marketing campaign spearheaded by a used furniture salesman with a flair for prejudice.
Tommy Maple is an international communications graduate student. His column appears every Tuesday.
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/columns/article_3186ae5b-1a0d-5cfe-9a38-b9ef17106732.html
Don’t be duped by Dove World dimwits
.Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12:02 am | Updated: 9:46 pm, Mon Sep 6, 2010.
Tommy Maple, Alligator Columnist
At first glance, the plan by Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 seems like an easy target.
Dig a little deeper, though, and you find yourself scratching the surface of a global furniture trafficking ring cloaked in quasi-religious secrecy and abetted by a misplaced tax status and a small cadre of mouth-breathing white slaves.
Islam isn’t the real target of the Dove center’s misplaced hate.
The real enemy of our disgraceful Gainesville brethren is low-priced furniture manufactured in Asia and sold across this great land.
If they stayed true to their ideological roots, Dove World members would don T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Particle board is of the devil.”
“Pastor” Terry Jones and his wife Sylvia aren’t too keen on letting this little secret out of the bag, but their entire spread is completely financed by selling vintage furniture — the good stuff, mid-century pieces bought in Europe and shipped over here where it can be sold for a princely sum.
On eBay.com, Craigslist.com and other web outlets under the business name “TS & Company,” Dove World’s outreach pretty much consists of securing a good price for its used furniture and shipping it across the country using the free labor provided by its pitiful army of duped dopes.
Dove World disciples, for their undying and unpaid devotion to a cause as noble as freight shipping, get to live rent-free in the Jones’ crumbling duplexes in the Phoenix and Pine Ridge subdivisions and eat whatever scraps of food Terry Jones and his wife drop off on their dinner table.
That the Internet can both support a clandestine furniture business cloaked in depressingly popular hate mongering, and also expose its inner workings, is a testament to, and indictment of, our information superhighway.
Sept. 11 will never be a day that any American can ever consider “normal,” and each of us will remember the day in a way that brings us a small amount of personal tranquility birthed from the dust of a cowardly act of terrorism.
Instead of wrapping yourself up in the fanaticism and discrimination of the Dove World dimwits, perhaps a quiet day spent shopping for furniture at one of our many reputable and honest furniture stores would be time better spent.
I’m sure the hardworking salespeople could use the extra commissions.
Far be it from me to impugn the purity of an act as brave as book burning, but it seems the controversy surrounding the actions of Dove World Outreach Center is little more than a sophisticated viral marketing campaign spearheaded by a used furniture salesman with a flair for prejudice.
Tommy Maple is an international communications graduate student. His column appears every Tuesday.
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/columns/article_3186ae5b-1a0d-5cfe-9a38-b9ef17106732.html
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