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| Misguided Jews Against "Islamophobia" |
| 2007-09-06 |
| 9-11 fatigue ignores real meaning of date By Jonathan Tobin Six years after planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, a lot of Americans are getting bored with the obsessive desire to commemorate the events of Sept. 11, 2001. |
| Posted by:McZoid |
| #8 I knew someone who told me that she felt nothing for the dead of the World Trade Center, because she knew none of them personally. I've left that organization for good. Better to mourn what deserves to be mourned than to ignore it with contempt. And far better to remember it and determine that its perpetrators and their allies suffer justice for their actions. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-09-06 20:33 |
| #7 "Part of the problem is that these efforts have, at least to date, been successful and there has been no repeat of 9/11 or worse." YeahÂ…right Tobin. We could really use another horrific terrorist attack. You knowÂ…just to wake up all those apathetic crumbums out there. Ah hellÂ…might as well make it a couple big onesÂ…just in case. YepÂ…thatÂ’s the problem allrightyÂ…We really have been just too damn successful. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-09-06 17:58 |
| #6 Six years after planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, a lot of Americans are getting bored with the obsessive desire to commemorate the events of Sept. 11, 2001. I, too, am bored with America's "obsessive desire to commemorate the events of Sept. 11, 2001". Far better that we were taking Islam apart at the seams as a celebration of our national awakening on that tragic day. We'll see change only when the big turbans are dropping like flies. Oh yeah, and what Glenmore said. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-06 17:05 |
| #5 What Glenmore said. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-06 10:16 |
| #4 As a well rounded can of gasoline, I would like everyone to know that I'm against all the Fire phobia I've seen lately. It's disgusting. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-09-06 08:59 |
| #3 *shrug* Misguided non-Jews against "Islamophobia", too. I imagine one or two of them also showed up at the conference, making similar remarks. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-06 08:33 |
| #2 Rav Yoffe's comments to the conference were a bit more substantive than the article states. His anti Islamophobia remark was made in the context of an appeal to Moslem to remove the violence from their religion. It was still stupid to attend the conference but not quite as stupid as Tobin makes it out to be. Also, Yoffe is a pretty standard liberal. He hates the NRA, supports abortion on demand (although he championed a special prayer for the victims of choice), gay rights, welfare for illegal aliens, etc. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-09-06 08:23 |
| #1 I got past mourning 9/11 a long time ago. I don't see a need for a bunch of memorials. However, I'm nowhere near getting past vengeance or preventive maintainance. My idea of a memorial is a pyramid of 10,000 jihadi skulls - at each impact site. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-09-06 07:40 |