Incredible: Group Objects to Mentioning “Islam” or “Jihad” in Film Explaining 9/11 To Be Shown at the 9/11 Museum

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Ace:

The future belongs to those who control the past.

AllahPundit doesn’t think this group will win out in its Outrage Trolling Initiative. Too many leftists in good standing would have to own up to their own Politically Incorrect mentions of Islam and Jihad in connection to 9/11 were this to become the New Stupid Standard of Socially-Approved Ignorance.

In fact, Brian Williams, face of the Democratic Communications Unit called “NBC Nightly News,” narrates the film and speaks the Forbidden Words himself.

I think this is more serious than he does, maybe.

The other day I was talking about the claim often made about Social Censorship — that it’s only “censorship” if the government does it.

Well, that’s not true. It’s true that the First Amendment only restrains the government, but the spirit of the First Amendment could and should restrain everyone.

Whenever someone wants to use social or economic coercion to shut someone up — defeating them not with better ideas, but betterpolitical mobilization and better utilization of levers of coercion — they should ask if they’re acting as friends or enemies of free expression.

But that wasn’t my point. My point is that politics is just downstream of culture.

And if the culture supports punishing people like Brendan Eich for committing a Thoughtcrime, then it will not be terribly long until our government does as well.

If the public demands censorship by mob justice, the government — which is not a principled institution, but a favor-for-favor system of legal quid pro quos — will eventually see the benefit of censorship by mob as well.

Which is why I find this current folly more worrisome than AllahPundit. He may be right that this attempt at rewriting history For Social Justice will fail, as it’s simply too ludicrous to win the day.

But even if it doesn’t win the day, it is apparently now a proposition that People Must Take Seriously.

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It is politically incorrect to portray the 19 terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks as Islamist or Jihadist. The fact that they thought they were is irrelevant. Their Imams taught them that the role of the adult male in Islam was to participate in Jihad, and to kill without end until all remaining persons were subject to Allah. They were fully aware that they would get 72 virgins and 28 young boys, necessary because they would have the virility of 100 in heaven.
But we can’t say any of that. CAIR insists that Islam means peace. Islam does not mean peace. Islam means submission. And there will be holy war until everyone submits.
If we are not really careful, PC will kill us all.

Well of course, that would be racist. Never mind that Islam isn’t a race.

Anyone who thinks that JIHAD and MUSLIM TERRORISTS should not be included in the 9/11 museum is too stupid to ever be allowed to vote.

I say this on the day that 3 American physicians who volunteered to go to Kabul to see Afghan patients, and to train Afghan resident physicians – in order to help the Afghan people – were jihad-murdered by one of the barbaric islamic thugs who was hired to protect the physicians who were there for humanitarian purposes.

I don’t have a problem with people disagreeing with me…but I do have a problem with people who are so dangerously stupid that they harm my family, my friends, and my country.

Perhaps Christians should object to museums and history books including the Crusades and The Inquisition. It makes just as much sense, as all Christians were not involved in these events.

New Stupid Standard of Socially-Approved Ignorance.

New??? Sorry….But, Stupid Standard of Socially-Approved Ignorance, sadly, is nothing… ‘New’…

….It’s been decades in the making…and the envelope keeps getting ‘pushed’ …people’s perception of REALITY and TRUTH is just getting more and more bizarre….

And, actually, I think that description is great!