I was speaking of the Muslims in Iraq. What happened to you on 9/11? My guess is that you probably sat somewhere watching the news. You sat and watched the US get seriously attacked on its own soil for the first time in decades. You didn’t know a single person that died there. The vast majority of Americans were essentially unaffected in their daily lives by the events of 9/11. How many Iraqi’s have lost their homes? How many Iraqi’s have lost a family member? a friend? The fact is that the vast majority of Iraqi’s have had their lives upended by you and I.
Although your above quote was not addressed to me, I would like to tell
you where
I was on 9/11.
I had woken up a little late to get to work on time and decided to take car service into Manhattan. I had fallen asleep with the TV on and when I looked at it, I thought I was watching a movie, then thought I was seeing an accident. Everyone did. I called my office and they said everything was fine. I hung up with the words, “See you soon.”
I didn’t hear from any co-workers for a day and half, and didn’t know if they were alive or dead. (I didn’t see them again for 3 weeks.)
I quickly got ready for work, and took another look at the TV. I was in time to see the second plane hit. I was on time to see the neighboorhood in which I’ve worked for 35 years covered in dust, ashes and ruin.
I called my office again, but they had already evacuated.
A close friend called to see if I had heard the news. We stayed on the phone together as I watched the two buildings that stood diagonally across the street from my office, the two buildings I had walked past on 9/10/01… I watched as they crumbled to the ground.
That night, some friends and I sat over coffee in a nearby diner, not yet willing to go to our respective homes. As we sat there, five different people came in proclaiming to have witnessed celebratory dancing in front of the local mosque - which is one block from my home.
In the aftermath, I discovered that I knew two of the dead – both women who had sung with me in the choir… one of them had been waiting for a bus. She was hit and covered with jet fuel. She was burned over 90% of her body, and lived for about 6 weeks before she died.
Our office re-opened on 10/2/01 when electricity was restored to our building - which was nearly impossible to access due to the gauntlet of police and military personel, and ID had to be produced time and time again, while we were encouraged to go about business “as usual.”
The smell in the air was and still remains indescribable. Every time a truck passed, when you were outdoors, the dust would waft up and cover everything. I STILL WHEEZE and never had lung trouble before.
And as I sat in my office trying to return to “business as usual,” every time a siren wailed, I cringed because it meant only one thing: another fallen firefighter or police officer was found… or a piece of him or her.
Then, every day, I would go home to an Arabic Muslim neighborhood where the prevailing Moslem sentiment was, and which I heard time and time again, and I QUOTE: “Oh yes, we think it [9/11] was a very bad thing, but America should not help Israel.” Not once did I hear, “I’m sorry.”
You know, I’ve read through the Bible several times, and have been reading the Bible since childhood, and I have never, ever, found an instruction that Christians are supposed to be doormats.
Matthew 10:13 – If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Matthew 10:34 – Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
Luke 12 – 51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Jesus spoke of division between believers and non-believers. Until Muslims declare their belief in Jesus as Lord, they are non-believers.
Peaceful non-believers are not a problem. How many peaceful non-believers are alive today! Hindus, Buddhists, athiests even. It seems that the only group of non-believers who are violent and enjoy death, destruction, rape, pedophilia, slavery, etc., are Muslims.
Interestingly, they never refute charges made against them other than to claim that those who make the charges don’t know what they’re talking about. I think that all those they have killed will refute that allegation on Judgment Day.
