Lessons of 9-11…We’re Still Learning
September 10, 2011
Some Educators Teach "America Was To Blame"
Political observers and philosophers are all sharing their lists of “lessons of 9-11.”
This week Michelle Malkin expresses rather curtly, the fears, anger and concern of many mothers around the country who see that our public schools are teaching lessons of 9-11 through “diversity training” and studies of Islam, and by tiptoeing around the concepts of jihad and sharia in lectures and shiny new textbooks.
Malkin is angry about it:
“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 students’ 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.”
Malkin is correct. Post 9-11 history classes now emphasizes the study of Islam almost more than Christianity.
It is correct that U.S. students should learn about and learn to understand the religious and political philosophies of
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those who desire to war with us. We also have peaceful neighbors of Islam who serve in our communities who do not interpret the Koran as a war manifesto, and they deserve to be separated from those who do. Yet, we must not whitewash the terror of 9-11. Some in the education community swing this way because of their own political ideologies. Liberals who dot the teachers’ unions, and sit in cubicles in school district hallways reinventing tolerance programs, and teachers who deep down believe America’s foreign policies have given birth to the aggression against us, are pouring their personal agendas into our kids’ curriculum.
That’s why it is more important than ever that parents take advantage of important anniversaries like this one to share their own view of the history of 9-11. Watch appropriate portions with your kids. Talk about your recollections and the impact the event had on you. Images don’t lie, and our kids and teens can’t be fooled. The “live” videos of that day, the stories of heroism create a new generation of examples for our families to follow and revere. Particularly pay attention to their new history text books. Answer their questions when they return home from school confused because the chapter in their history books about Islam is three times as long as that about Christianity and the emergency of freedom of worship in America. We need to be the record memory of our own generations, not strangers.
Yes we need to learn from our mistakes in nation building, seeking oil, and trying to be the world’s policeman. But even more important for our children’s generation is the importance of passing on the fierce lessons of America’s bravery, personal sacrifice, and the pursuit of liberty, and we should never apologize in the name of tolerance for the violent natures of our enemies.
Michelle Malkin sums it up quite perfectly:
“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
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how much we try to appease them.
The post-9/11 problem isn’t whether we’ll forget. The problem is: Will we ever learn?”
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How is it possible that “they” hated us before Israel, since Israel existed LONG before North America was discovered by Europeans?
Malkin is obviously referring to the creation of the “state” of Israel on May 14, 1948 in accordance with the 1947 UN Partition Plan. But yeah, they have hated the Jewish people and the West for much longer than that.