Fifteen Years After 9/11, Blindness to the Islamist Threat Is Official Policy
by Andrew C. McCarthy September 11, 2016 4:00 AM
Prohibiting mention of Islam in connection with jihadist violence won’t prevent future atrocities. If there is a theme to this 15th annual observance — the word “anniversary” just seems so wrong — of the most lethal enemy attack ever carried out on American soil, it is erasure. At least that’s what they’re being told in Owego, N.Y.
There, a Muslim activist group is demanding that the town’s 9/11 memorial be erased. Not all of it; just the word “Islamic.” Carved into the memorial — the point of which is to signify that which we must never forget — is the factual assertion that, on September 11, 2001, “nineteen Islamic terrorists” carried out coordinated suicide-hijacking attacks against the United States.
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439910/911-anniversary-fifteen-years-later-islamic-jihadism-still-threat
