9/11 2012 Attacks.

It feels like old home week here at Public Occurrences. In the beginning I was just an idiot blogger writing about Islam. My, how things have changed.

Back then I remember writing a post entitled “For Verbal Provocation of Islam.”  I believed, and I believe, that “Islam has bloody borders,” that wherever that hateful ideology cum religion comes into contact with “unbelievers” there is going to be bloodshed; that we are a world largely without borders, that we, for instance, have embassies in Islamic countries. I believed, etc. that violence against Americans would occur wherever, in this borderless world, we had contact with Islam. I believed, as I also wrote, that “The War is with Islam” and advocated that the U.S. attack and overthrow Islam's regimes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the two biggest Islamic enemies of America.

No. Immediately after 9/11 the Bush administration proclaimed the war certainly was not with Islam. Whom it was with was never clearly defined. “Islamic fundamentalists?”  “Islamic extremists?”  We went to war against Iraq and Afghanistan. Americans had barely the stomach for those two wars; there was no support for a wider war with Islam. Eventually the Bushies settled on Al Qaeda as the enemy.

It was during those early years that I advocated verbal provocation of Islam. Neither the American government nor the American people would countenance a wider war “just” because of the attacks of 9/11. They needed further violence by Islam against America. So I proposed provoking Islam to attack again so that Americans would see that the enemy was broader than Al Qaeda. I proposed actions like that of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s “turbanbombistan” caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the header, like the film or films, it is unclear, that were produced recently mocking Muhammad, Islam, and the Koran. I believed, I knew, that Islam would show its violent soul, would react as Pavlov’s dog, to such provocation. And I believed that America, its government and citizens, would retaliate and expand the war as I believed we should.

All of those things have happened except the last. Yesterday, Egyptian Muslims attacked the U.S.embassy—sovereign American territory—in Cairo, shredding the American flag, hoisting in its place one frequently used by Al Qaeda and other “exremists,” and scrawling Osama bin Laden’s name on an embassy wall.  And earlier this morning Libyan Muslims, “inspired” by their Egyptian brethren, attacked the American embassy in Benghazi and killed the American ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.

President Obama’s response: 

“While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.”

That is appeasement. The Obama administration should hunt down and kill those Muslims who attacked the American embassies in Cairo and Benghazi. The administration should denigrate the Islamic religion by killing the clerics who preach violence and by destroying their mosques. And when Muslims in those and other Islamic countries gather to protest these American attacks, as surely they will--as Palestinians gathered to celebrate the 9/11 attacks--America should bomb the gathering protesters, killing every one of them, man, woman, and child.  Obama won't do it. He will do nothing beyond issuing his statement of appeasement today.