More Than Just a Tragedy

By: Chris Johnson

In the aftermath of tragedies, we look for small comforts wherever we can find them – fond memories, circumstances which could have made the event even worse but which were avoided, and the meagerest comfort of all – lessons learned.

When even that bittersweet consolation is denied to us, the tragedy reaches a new level and becomes a senseless tragedy. A senseless tragedy leaves us not only with feelings of sadness and loss, but of vulnerability. If we can make no sense of how and why something happened, how can we avoid having it happen again?

But what is the term for a tragedy which is made senseless by those whose duty it is to make sense of it? When those who have been chosen to lead the response refuse to learn obvious lessons and instead react in ways which invite more tragedy?

At that point what we’re dealing with is no longer just a tragedy, but also a betrayal.

This has been the circumstance in which Americans have lived since 9/11, now 25 years ago.

When the 19 Muslim hijackers who carried out the attack executed their plans which had been put together by a known extremist organization which had the support of several national governments because of its religious beliefs, they left no question as to what motivated them.

It was their religious belief that Islam would conquer the world, a central tenant of Islam, held by all Muslims everywhere.

Yet, rather than limit and monitor the influx of those who share these beliefs with the terrorists, our government allowed more immigration from Muslim countries than ever before.

In the 1990s, only roughly 50,000 immigrants from Muslim countries moved to the US per year. Since 2009, it’s been 100,000 per year and climbing. There were 185,000 in 2023.

Through immigration and procreation, the Muslim population grew by about 30% between the years of 2007 (2.4 million) and 2017 (3.5 million) and by roughly 40% between 2017 and 2026 (5.5 million). As those 5.5 million continue to reproduce, the Muslim population will continue to compound and pick up speed as time goes on.

We can see how this turns out by looking at New York City. In 2010, there was an attempt to build a mosque and Islamic Center in the immediate vicinity of Ground Zero of the World Trade Center attacks. This was rightly seen by enough Americans and New Yorkers as a sign of Islamic conquest over the location to have the project killed before construction could begin.

By 2025, public opinion had changed – both through changing population thanks to immigration and a generation which did not remember the attacks – and New York City elected a Muslim ruler (mayor).

New York may be the most influential city this is taking place in, but it’s hardly the first or most advanced. We can also look to Minnesota where a recent push for a new State flag resulted in one bearing a striking resemblance to the flag of the recently emigrated Somali population and the government of which has looked the other way while hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud has stripped money from native Minnesotans to send back to Mogadishu.

Or you can look to the streets of Dearborn, MI, with its Muslim mayor, Muslim police chief, and Muslim city council – where Christian street preachers are arrested when they are accosted by Muslim passersby and Christian pastors are told, “when you move out, I will hold a parade” by city officials.

One can turn to Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the Senate, who once told a Christian candidate running against him for governor (Patrick Colbeck), “You may not hate Muslims, but Muslims hate you.”

The time after the September 11, 2001 attacks was a time of incredible unity. Americans were afraid and angry. Toby Keith released his hit “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American) in the months after with the words:

Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack

A mighty sucker punch came flyin’ in from somewhere in the back

Soon as we could see clearly

Through our big black eye

Man, we lit up your world

Like the fourth of July

It was a huge hit. The idea was everywhere that no matter who our enemies were, we could not let them win.

But we are letting them win.

9/11 was not a senseless tragedy. It was perpetrated for a reason. The attackers had goals and we’re watching those goals unfold before our very eyes.

America has been betrayed, but there are still things we can do to fight back and the movement to counter Islam is more mainstream and outspoken than ever before.

Islam thrives in the religious vacuum of the United States. Where the church has embarrassedly withdrawn from being the guide and conscience of our society, the mosque has no shame in drawing their lines in the sand. To push back against Islam, we must make church mean more in our cultural life.

For those of us in Michigan and in other states and municipalities with Muslims on the ballot, we can vote. A political representative’s religion isn’t just an interesting factoid. Christians cannot be well represented by a Muslim, so vote for someone who can represent you better.

Learn more and inform your neighbors more and more about Islam and most importantly, pray prayers of petition and repentance for our nation. The Bible is clear that being ruled over by foreigners is a sign of judgment. May America turn back to God.

 

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