Islam - The Cause of 9/11

Today, we shall see that the cause of 9/11 is Islam. It is the Islamic religion and specifically, Islamic ideology. The original version of this article was cowritten by my wife Ash Scriver.

Introduction#

The World Trade Center once towered over much of the surrounding New York. It stood as a symbol of the heights achievable by men of reason and self-esteem. It symbolized the achievements of a culture valuing freedom and reason.

Much like the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center was a symbol of Western values. A symbol of the American Dream rooted in every individual’s right to:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The Declaration of Independence

The American dream is:

Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

James Adams, 1931.

The World Trade Center was destroyed by savages. We will get to that...

Islam Attacks#

We shall now look at two of the Islamic attacks on the West and evil attempts to justify them.

February 26, 1993#

One terrorist attack on these values came on February 26, 1993. An Islamic militant, Ramzi Yousef, cowardly attacked Western values. He killed six people and injured a further 1,042 people.

During the 1998 trial, Yousef condemned the United States for its victory over Japan in 1945 and its economic embargo against a rights-violating Cuba.

You keep talking also about collective punishment and killing innocent people to force governments to change their policies; you call this terrorism when someone would kill innocent people or civilians in order to force the government to change its policies. Well, when you were the first one who invented this terrorism.

Ramzi Yousef, Wikipedia.

Yousef dropped context and pretended that military defense of a nation is equivalent to terrorism. On what grounds? Because both involve the loss of innocent lives!

Terrorism is the initiation of force via threats of violence in order to instill terror upon a people or its government.

Is that what America did when it fought a war against Germany? No, it did not initiate the war. It responded to the violence inflicted on it by Germany. A war of self-defence is not terrorism; it is a morally necessary response to terrorism. It is immoral to equate a war of self-defense with terrorism.

The equivocations continue:

You were the first one who killed innocent people, and you are the first one who introduced this type of terrorism to the history of mankind when you dropped an atomic bomb which killed tens of thousands of women and children in Japan and when you killed over a hundred thousand people, most of them civilians, in Tokyo with fire bombings.

You killed them by burning them to death. And you killed civilians in Vietnam with chemicals, as with the so-called Agent Orange. You killed civilians and innocent people, not soldiers, in every single war you went to. You went to war more than any other country in this century, and then you have the nerve to talk about killing innocent people.

Ramzi Yousef, Wikipedia

The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were an act of heroism. What was the alternative to the atomic bombing of those two cities? A bloody invasion of Japan that would have cost over a million American lives. The war would have destroyed much of Japan. Millions of Japanese would have died.

The Japanese government came to be grateful for the bombings. The minister of the navy described the atomic bombings as a “gift from heaven”. He believed they had saved the Japanese from their own foolishness. According to Emperor Hirohito’s chief advisor, peace had been “assisted by the atomic bomb”.

We must not judge the morality of a nation by the number of times it goes to war. The reason for going to war matters. Is it fighting a war of self-defense? Is it a selfless war, sacrificing soldiers’ lives for nothing? A nation may go to war for self-defense as many times as necessary.

We can question why America fought the Korean and Vietnam wars. Were some of the motivations for the war altruistic? Arguably. We can condemn America for the ineffective way it fought these wars. We can condemn America for attacking Iraq for altruistic reasons, when Iran was clearly the proper target.

But we should not condemn America for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan was a direct threat to America and its people. It was a moral necessity as soon as Japan threatened America’s values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Doing this to Hiroshima was heroism. The alternative was doing this to many other Japanese cities.

He continued:

And now you have invented new ways to kill innocent people. You have a so-called economic embargo, which kills nobody other than children and elderly people, and which, other than Iraq, you have been placing the economic embargo on Cuba and other countries for over 35 years.

....The Government in its summation and opening statement, said that I was a terrorist. Yes, I am a terrorist, and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it is against the United States government and against Israel because you are more than terrorists; you are the ones who invented terrorism and use it every day. You are liars, butchers, and hypocrites. [29]

Ramzi Yousef, Wikipedia

Yousef condemns America for acts of violence, terrorism and inventing terrorism.

Islam engaged in religious terrorism long before the United States existed. Islamic states fought savage wars against each other for hundreds of years before the US existed. It engaged in savagery, which Western culture is fundamentally opposed to but which Islam praises.

The Quran contains at least 109 verses describing war with nonbelievers.

Countless verses call for graphic violence, including the murder of nonbelievers. Here are some of them:

As for those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.

Quran 3:56

That seems a clear condemnation of the so-called “crime” of non-belief.

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter, they shall have a grievous chastisement

Quran 5:33

And then there is this:

(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels... I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore, strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

Quran 8:12

The Quran is older than America and modern Western culture. So, in what sense did the West invent terrorism? Looks like the Quran was doing quite well before the West came along.

During the trial of Yousef, Judge Duffy did not morally condemn Islam for its death worship. She apologized for Islam and the faith. She did not condemn the sacrifice collection of such cults and religions. Duffy condemned the ego, the very Western values that had made the twin towers possible!

Ramzi Yousef, you claim to be an Islamic militant. Of all the persons killed or harmed in some way by the World Trade Center bomb, you cannot name one who was against you or your cause. You did not care, just so long as you left dead bodies and people hurt.

Ramzi Yousef, you are not fit to uphold Islam. Your God is a god of death. Your God is not Allah ...

You weren’t seeking conversions. The only thing you wanted to do was to cause death. Your God is not Allah. You worship death and destruction. What you do, you do not do for Allah; you do it only to satisfy your twisted sense of ego.

You would have others believe that you are a soldier, but the attacks on civilization for which you stand convicted here were sneak attacks which sought to kill and maim totally innocent people.

You, Ramzi Yousef, came to this country pretending to be an Islamic fundamentalist, but you cared little or nothing for Islam or the faith of the Muslims. Rather, you adored not Allah, but the evil yourself have become. And I must say that as an apostle of evil, you have been most effective. [29]

Judge Duffy, Wikipedia

But we have seen that according to the Quran itself, Yousef was acting entirely consistently with the Quran.

The Quran has countless verses like the ones we have already seen. Not one of them says that a true Muslim shall spare a heretic imprisonment or a violent death! Yousef was acting in accordance with the Quran, as Islam demands. Let us look at another quote:

Not equal are those of the believers who sit (at home), except those who are disabled (by injury or are blind or lame, etc.), and those who strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit (at home). Unto each, Allah has promised good (Paradise), but Allah has preferred those who strive hard and fight, above those who sit (at home) by a huge reward.

Quran 4:95

According to his verse, murderous Muslims are morally superior to those who do not fight nonbelievers! Judge Duffy, you were wrong; Yousef was a champion of Islam.

September 11, 2001 - Islam Attacks Again#

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked the Western values of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” once more. On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked the Western values of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” once more. This time, the Twin Towers collapsed. 2,192 civilians died, and 414 sworn personnel died.

I wish the West did not apologize for its values. I would love it if America stood firmly and morally behind its victory over Japan in 1945. If only Judge Duffy and America had morally condemned Islamic ideologies as evil. If only...

To the Apologists and Appeasers of Islam#

On its Memorial Day in 2020, Facebook hid content that read:

I am not convinced that faith can move mountains, but I have seen what it can do to skyscrapers.

William Gascoyne

Facebook calls this truth “cruel and insensitive”. It likes to shield people from being offended when people criticize their religious views.

However, no rational person should attempt to shield someone from such offenses. If one embraces religion, one does not have the right to be spared any non-violent attack on their religion. Anyone may criticize you for making that choice. Nobody may demand that anyone else provide them with a platform with which to do so.

Religion is worthy of ridicule and attack. It is irrational and anti-life, and if you embrace religion; you have no business expecting reasonable people to respect your religious sensitivities. Neither Facebook nor anyone else has any business trying to shield people from criticism of their religious views. Facebook disagrees. It thinks it must spare Muslims from offense. Facebook is in league with a cult of murderous, woman-hating pedophiles.

How should the West respond to Islam? It should expose it for what it is. What is it? A genocidal, women-hating cult of child abuse and pro-slavery. It is not a religion of peace. If you read the Quran, it is clearly not peaceful. It is clearly not trying to be so. Devout Muslims must raise a sword and demand infidel blood. No devout follower could say otherwise. Not if they read a significant portion of a book that frequently calls for murder for the crime of heresy.

Depicting Muhammad is a heresy punishable by death!

Islam is a cult of violent oppression and genocide against heretics. Islam has violence written into its defective DNA. We cannot remove this from the religion without creating a fundamentally different religion.

Since Islam fundamentally demands the constant violent slaughter of non-believers, it cannot be a religion of peace, and the truly devout must be mass murderers or support mass murder. All Islams are called to murder and told that to refuse to do so makes them lesser.

Yet, some Muslims deny this. It is these “moderate” practitioners who lend Islam a pretense of peace. But that does not change the fact that Islam demands the slaughter of heretics. That is a dangerous, murderous death cult.

Yet, people treat those who call Islam a violent death cult as Islamophobic. People label any critic of Islam a “hater” and an “enemy of Muslims”. Their crime? The recognition of the nature of Islam.

You might think it is the Muslim world that treats critics of Islam this way. Yes, the Muslim world treats critics this way. But so does the Western world. The Western world is intolerant of religious criticism. It treats all forms of religious intolerance as hate crimes. As if it is a hate crime to condemn religion. Even those religions that loudly call for murder and other hate crimes!

We cannot hold religion above reproach, as above criticism. No form of irrationality is beyond criticism. The moment we hold religion as above criticism is the moment we hold irrationality as beyond criticism. That is the moment we suspend criticism of the irrational. When we hold the irrational as superior to the rational, we have surrendered reason to unreason. We must never allow Islam, or any other religion, to be beyond criticism.

Islam is a violent ideology demanding the slaughter of infidels. Not supporting the violent slaughter of non-believers is heresy. Yet, we are to support this religion and consider it a religion of peace? Can we not criticize this religion?

To support Islam just because it is a religion is no better than supporting Manson’s apocalyptic death cult. This is true regardless of how many people might have signed up for the cult.

If we respect reality and life, then we must see Islam as an enemy of both. It is a genocidal death cult. We should not allow it to pose a serious threat to the Western world. We must stand up to it and declare it as the enemy of life, liberty, reason and freedom that it is. Even if it means we must wipe all dangerous Islamic states from the Earth. We must not allow Islamic states to threaten the West. To allow Islamic states to threaten the West is an act of cowardice.

However, we have a problem. The West refuses to accept that any religion can be the enemy. Why? Because most Western nations have one religion or another and are thus unwilling to accept that religion can be a problem. As long as the West embraces religion, it is unlikely that they will ever be able to declare war against any religion.

That is exactly what we must do. We should accept that religion is evil. Every religion. The entire concept of religion is the embrace of evil. It is the willful denial of reality in preference for baseless fantasy and emotion, which is the core of all evil. In this respect, all religions are fundamentally irrational and evil. If we hold that religion is anything but evil, then we cannot identify any religion is the enemy we must fight.

As long as we grant that any religion is valid, then we can and, many of us will, grant that Islam too is valid. If we are to excuse Christianity or Hinduism for their irrationalities, why not Islam?

The West pretends Islam should exist and that it only needs to have the violence purged from it. As long as our culture believes that any religion has any business existing, it cannot identify another religion as an ideological enemy. It may identify aspects of the religion as evil, but it will never allow itself to identify the religion itself as fundamentally immoral and evil.

But other religions are not violent! Aren’t they? Tell that to the countless Christian, Jewish and Hindu terrorists acting in accordance with their faith. All religions reject reason and embrace war, including Hinduism. Once you have rejected reason, you have no rational means of convincing people to sign up for your faith. Violence is one way to get converts. That is why the major religions all advocate violence somewhere in their teachings. The more religious you are, the more likely you are to be violent.

I am an antitheist; I oppose all religions.

If we wish to preserve the West, then we must utterly crush, demoralize, and reveal Islam. We must show it as the weak husk that it becomes when it loses the support of the good. It has no power to destroy us if we do not let it. Islam is a religion of murderous savages that has no power to destroy the Western world determined to destroy it.

We must wage war against Islam with every shred of military might we have. Until we reveal every Islamic State that opposes us as a gang of desperate, cowardly savages. We must show them that to oppose is to court death, and that Islam has no power in the West.

The West must show that Islam can not, despite what it wishes, destroy or take over the culture of the West. A culture that knows what it is; a death cult embraced by murderous barbarians.

Anything else is cowardice and the refusal to face an abundantly obvious threat. To embrace Islam as worthy of cultural protection or even as somehow equivalent to Western culture is to abandon reason and life and embrace death and barbarism.

We acknowledge people’s right to practice religion. But it becomes a problem when it enters politics and they force it upon others. It becomes a problem when people use it as an excuse for crimes and violations of individual rights.

You cannot hide behind your religion. If you choose to be a criminal, we will treat you accordingly. If you want to manifest evil, you are evil, and we must treat you accordingly.

We are not saying that we should kill all Muslims or all religious people. No, but we should oppose religious fundamentalism for what it is - the genuine expression of its religion.

The West must show that we will not allow terrorists to kill while hiding behind religious freedom. It must shield its people from the swords of religious extremists. Anything else equals prolonged suicide, a rejection of our right to live.

Leave us alone, and we will leave you alone to worship death and ruin your own lives with evil ideologies in the privacy of your own homes and temples.

That is the beauty of a free society. You get freedoms. That includes the freedom to ruin your own life as you choose. There are many wonderful Western values. One is that you have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. You have the right to “pursue” happiness. You get the freedom to take responsibility for your own life! And the freedom to make irrational decisions and face the consequences of your ideology and actions. But you do not get to force them on anyone else.

If you choose to force those ideologies upon anyone else, if you choose to terrorize anyone else in the name of those ideologies, we will cut you down!