Friday marks the last school day before the 20th anniversary of terrorists attacking the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. It comes just after President Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan and billions of dollars worth of war machines to the Taliban, a major terrorist organization supportive of the Sept. 11 attacks and everything they stand for.
For teachers, parents, professors, and mentors of all varieties there is no better occasion than this anniversary to teach children and young adults why these attacks occurred and what they really mean. They were attacks against love, acceptance, diversity, inclusion, tolerance, multiculturalism, religious liberty, and everything else Americans value.
Students in grades K-12 were not alive to witness the Sept. 11 attacks. The 20-year anniversary comes after a year of left-wing, internal America-bashing unseen since the 1960s. It comes just as the National Education Association advocates openly racist messages that label white children as oppressors and nonwhite children as their victims. Known to the NEA as critical race theory, school districts increasingly teach this racist philosophy under less controversial course names that often emphasize “equity.”
The left’s guilt-imposing worldview could easily lead children to believe we had it coming 20 years ago Saturday. Maybe the non-Christian nonwhite men who hijacked planes were killing white supremacists enjoying the unfair advantages of a country founded by a slave ship in 1619. Never forget, a former University of Colorado professor compared all victims of Sept. 11 to Nazis known as “Little Eichmanns.”
The propensity for portions of the teaching establishments to woke-wash Sept. 11 is partially affirmed by a Virginia Department of Education webinar telling teachers to prepare “culturally responsive and inclusive” lessons about the attacks. The webinar warns against using the word “terrorist.” Avoid promoting “American exceptionalism.” In summary, teach it but don’t allow children to perceive moral disparity between the attackers and the country they attacked.
Here’s a better idea. Use Sept. 11 history to teach children exactly why evil men of one fundamentalist demographic murdered nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children of every racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, national, and gender identity imaginable. They killed people who counted on this country protecting them to work, believe, and love however they choose.
Here are just some of the reasons radical Islamic extremists — such as those who control Afghanistan and an American arsenal — hate us so much:
— They hate equal rights for women to the point of killing them for showing their faces in public
— The Taliban often punish rape victims by convicting them of infidelity
— The Taliban do not think women should attend school or educate themselves
— Members of the LGBQ community have no rights and can be executed for their sexual orientations
— The Taliban threaten, torture, and kill journalists suspected of disrespecting Islam
— As Sharia supremacists, the Taliban condone spousal rape and forced marriages among old men and young girls
The Taliban openly and unapologetically torture and otherwise discriminate against members of the minority Shi’a demographic, which comprises up to 15% of Afghanistan’s population.
Examples of the racist, intolerant, bigoted and murderous nature of Afghanistan’s new government could go on. It is fair to characterize Afghanistan — especially under full control of the Taliban — as the opposite of the United States in almost every way.
No wonder they hate us. As they try to cleanse society of homosexuals, our culture and government openly fight to expand their acceptance and equal treatment under the law. As the Taliban’s Islamic extremist terrorists publicly torture and kill those disloyal to their authority, U.S. authorities dutifully defend the rights of those who snub the American flag because they consider this country racist and unfair.
The Taliban terrorists hate us because they think we are evil infidels who offend their racist, sexist, religiously fanatical tyrannical values. In the United States, women dress exactly as they please and some communities even let them go bare-chested in public. Imagine how that looks to an Islamic fundamentalist who enforces misogyny with military rifles and won’t let women show their faces.
We mourn Sept. 11 this week because the United States was attacked for standing as the world’s refuge for the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. As the Statute of Liberty reminds us, “This country’s greatness and true genius lies in its diversity.” That repulses the leaders of a murderous theocracy.
We were attacked, in large part, because of the freedoms we protect for diverse populations. Evil forces attacked this country because it fights for what is right and defends against what is wrong. That should be the message we teach children when explaining those 3,000 murders 20 years ago this week.
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god bless those souls lost in 9-11 and the families.
Sept. 11, 2001. It comes just after President Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan and billions of dollars worth of war machines to the Taliban, a major terrorist organization supportive of the Sept. 11 attacks and everything they stand for.
We the parents of our children need to teach our children the things that the traitorous, socialist Democrat school boards do not want our children to know. Note that a lot of the millennial generation are being taught in public schools that Socialism and a Socialist government is a good thing.
This traitorous, dishonest, unethical, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive nd deadliest ENEMY. 👿
What sickens me, is we not only see TEACHERS, who bad mouth this nation, its flag etc, but STUDENTS who feel ‘america deserved it’ and the like.
I honestly would love to just ROUND UP EVERY ONE of those suckheads, and AIR DROP THEM into the middle of taliban controlled territory, and LEAVE THEM THERE…
Secular atheism sanctioned by government, law, and education has made the west as evil as anywhere . Where educators led students in The Lords Prayer , and had the same values as parents before 1962 . That is when the courts decreed The Lords Prayer unconstitutional , and atheist secularism the new government sanctioned worldview and therefore religion, which educators were given authority to proselytize to students of all professions.
Study THE Quran to understand Muslims , and their faith-worldview Islam. Islam does not only condones violence , but commands it. Surah 9:5 ,” fight and slay the infidels wherever you find them…etc.” What is going to happen to the US evacuated Afghans coming here with multiple child brides? I suppose Biden and Company will add that to The Constitution with the Supreme Courts help.
We can only hope the people can realize the corruption of institutionalized government, and supreme court decreed atheist secularism to our civilization, beginning with kindergarteners.
We’ve been told repeatedly there is a generation too young or not born yet who were unfamiliar with what happened on September 11, 2001. You know who they are: the hordes of registered democrats who burned , looted, vandalized, and assaulted -tore down monuments and showed their hatred for what America stood for under the guise of anti-fa and BLM.
Along with all those college brats who continually bad mouth our nation, our flag and our anthem!
On 9/11/2001 foreign terrorists attacked our country, on 1/06/2021 domestic terrorists took over our whitehouse. God help us!!
Amen!
IF god was going to help us, he would have NOT LET THEM TAKE OVER to the extend they have!
Get that dusty old Bible out of your closet then actually read it. Most of the Old Testament tells the recurring story; God brings victory, people are ungrateful and commit greivious sin, God sends judgment, after a long time the people repent, and God brings victory again.
America has been greatly blessed by Americans are ungrateful and quite sinful. What we are just now BEGINNING to see is the tip of the iceberg that can / may rip America apart and allow our enemies to enslave us. Repent NOW to avoid disaster.
You can’t teach what happened in 9/11, because democrats will say you are teaching hate to Muslims. That’s Discrimination toward Muslims. Democrats will only teach what the Muslims said happened ” somebody did something ” ?? Teach the truth about 9/11 Terrorist !!! Thing about it is not all Muslims are terrorists. Except maybe the ones in Congress
Explain that ALL people make bad decisions some times; even “you.” The terrorists who killed many people should have chosen to be good but did not.
to me, its NOT Phobic, to ever hate islam. THEY ARE EMINENTLY HATEABLE!
Biden’s mismanagement of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan renders allow the blood and treasure expended there worthless trash; thus gravely insulting all involved for the last 20 years. The shame now rests on Biden’s empty head.
It does kind of make every death, and injury our service men and women endured, pointless..
America was attacked because:
Our nation is based on the true God and Creator of the universe.
Our nation is based on FREEDOM.
The attackers are driven to silence the Gospel and oppress all people.