Thanatos
2011-09-09 14:40:11 UTC
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/09/all-the-wrong-911-lessons/
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after
Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American
soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of
progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
"Know your enemy, name your enemy" is a 9/11 message that has gone
unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to
profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.
Our military leaders refuse to expunge them from uniformed ranks until
it's too late (see: Fort Hood massacre). The j-word is discouraged in
Obama intelligence circles, and the term "Islamic extremism" was removed
from the U.S. national security strategy document last year.
Similarly, too many teachers refuse to show and tell who the
perpetrators of 9/11 were and who their heirs are today. My own daughter
was one year old when the Twin Towers collapsed, the Pentagon went up in
flames and Shanksville, PA, became hallowed ground for the brave
passengers of United Flight 93. In second grade, her teachers read
touchy-feely stories about peace and diversity to honor the 9/11 dead.
They whitewashed Osama bin Laden, militant Islam, and centuries-old
jihad out of the curriculum. Apparently, the youngsters weren't ready to
learn even the most basic information about the evil masterminds of
Islamic terrorism.
Mary Beth Hicks, author of the new book "Don't Let the Kids Drink the
Kool-Aid," points to a recent review of ten widely used textbooks in
which the concepts of jihad and sharia were either watered down or
absent. These childhood experts have determined that grade school is too
early to delve into the specifics of the homicidal clash of Allah's
sharia-avenging soldiers with the freedom-loving Western world.
Yet, many of the same protectors of fragile elementary-school pupils
can't wait to teach them all the ins and outs of condoms,
cross-dressers, and crack addictions.
We pulled our daughter out of a cesspool of academic and moral
relativism and found a reality-grounded, rigorous charter school where
no-nonsense teachers refuse to sugarcoat inconvenient facts and history.
Many of the students are children of soldiers and servicemen and women
who inspired by the heroes of 9/11 have voluntarily deployed time
and time again to kill the extremists abroad before they kill us over
here.
There's no better way to hammer home the message that "freedom is not
free" than to have your kids go to school with other kids whose dads and
moms are gone for years at a time missing births and birthday parties,
recitals and soccer practice, Christmas pageants and Independence Day
fireworks.
But instead of unfettered pride in our armed forces, social justice
educators in high schools and colleges across the country indoctrinate
American students into viewing our volunteer armed forces as victims,
monsters and pawns in a leftist "social struggle."
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Blame America-ism still permeates
classrooms and the culture. A special 9/11 curriculum distributed in New
Jersey schools advises teachers to "avoid graphic details or dramatizing
the destruction" wrought by the 9/11 hijackers, and instead focus
elementary school students¹ attention on broadly defined "intolerance"
and "hurtful words."
No surprise: Jihadist utterances such as "Kill the Jews," "Allahu Akbar"
and "Behead all those who insult Islam" are not among the "hurtful
words" studied.
Middle-schoolers are directed to "analyze diversity and prejudice in
U.S. history." And high-school students are taught "Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs"-- pop-psychology claptrap used to excuse jihadists' behavior
based on their purported low self-esteem and oppressed status caused by
"European colonialism."
It is no wonder that a new poll released this week showed that Americans
today "are generally more willing to believe that U.S. policies in the
Middle East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and
the Pentagon," according to Reuters.
To make matters worse, we have an appeaser-in-chief who wrote shortly
after the jihadist attacks a decade ago that the "essence of this
tragedy" derives "from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of
the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity
and suffering of others." A "climate of poverty and ignorance" caused
the attacks, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama preached. Never mind
the Ivy League and Oxford educations, the oil wealth and the
middle-class status of legions of al-Qaida plotters and operatives.
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war
on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They
hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before
Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage
will keep hating us no matter how much we try to appease them.
The post-9/11 problem isn't whether we¹ll forget. The problem is: Will
we ever learn?
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after
Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American
soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of
progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
"Know your enemy, name your enemy" is a 9/11 message that has gone
unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to
profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.
Our military leaders refuse to expunge them from uniformed ranks until
it's too late (see: Fort Hood massacre). The j-word is discouraged in
Obama intelligence circles, and the term "Islamic extremism" was removed
from the U.S. national security strategy document last year.
Similarly, too many teachers refuse to show and tell who the
perpetrators of 9/11 were and who their heirs are today. My own daughter
was one year old when the Twin Towers collapsed, the Pentagon went up in
flames and Shanksville, PA, became hallowed ground for the brave
passengers of United Flight 93. In second grade, her teachers read
touchy-feely stories about peace and diversity to honor the 9/11 dead.
They whitewashed Osama bin Laden, militant Islam, and centuries-old
jihad out of the curriculum. Apparently, the youngsters weren't ready to
learn even the most basic information about the evil masterminds of
Islamic terrorism.
Mary Beth Hicks, author of the new book "Don't Let the Kids Drink the
Kool-Aid," points to a recent review of ten widely used textbooks in
which the concepts of jihad and sharia were either watered down or
absent. These childhood experts have determined that grade school is too
early to delve into the specifics of the homicidal clash of Allah's
sharia-avenging soldiers with the freedom-loving Western world.
Yet, many of the same protectors of fragile elementary-school pupils
can't wait to teach them all the ins and outs of condoms,
cross-dressers, and crack addictions.
We pulled our daughter out of a cesspool of academic and moral
relativism and found a reality-grounded, rigorous charter school where
no-nonsense teachers refuse to sugarcoat inconvenient facts and history.
Many of the students are children of soldiers and servicemen and women
who inspired by the heroes of 9/11 have voluntarily deployed time
and time again to kill the extremists abroad before they kill us over
here.
There's no better way to hammer home the message that "freedom is not
free" than to have your kids go to school with other kids whose dads and
moms are gone for years at a time missing births and birthday parties,
recitals and soccer practice, Christmas pageants and Independence Day
fireworks.
But instead of unfettered pride in our armed forces, social justice
educators in high schools and colleges across the country indoctrinate
American students into viewing our volunteer armed forces as victims,
monsters and pawns in a leftist "social struggle."
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Blame America-ism still permeates
classrooms and the culture. A special 9/11 curriculum distributed in New
Jersey schools advises teachers to "avoid graphic details or dramatizing
the destruction" wrought by the 9/11 hijackers, and instead focus
elementary school students¹ attention on broadly defined "intolerance"
and "hurtful words."
No surprise: Jihadist utterances such as "Kill the Jews," "Allahu Akbar"
and "Behead all those who insult Islam" are not among the "hurtful
words" studied.
Middle-schoolers are directed to "analyze diversity and prejudice in
U.S. history." And high-school students are taught "Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs"-- pop-psychology claptrap used to excuse jihadists' behavior
based on their purported low self-esteem and oppressed status caused by
"European colonialism."
It is no wonder that a new poll released this week showed that Americans
today "are generally more willing to believe that U.S. policies in the
Middle East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and
the Pentagon," according to Reuters.
To make matters worse, we have an appeaser-in-chief who wrote shortly
after the jihadist attacks a decade ago that the "essence of this
tragedy" derives "from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of
the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity
and suffering of others." A "climate of poverty and ignorance" caused
the attacks, then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama preached. Never mind
the Ivy League and Oxford educations, the oil wealth and the
middle-class status of legions of al-Qaida plotters and operatives.
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war
on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They
hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before
Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage
will keep hating us no matter how much we try to appease them.
The post-9/11 problem isn't whether we¹ll forget. The problem is: Will
we ever learn?