Psychological Compromise
Radical Islam, Faux Human Rights Groups, and their Deadly Effect on the West
I was 10 years old on September 11th, 2001. It was 12 days before my 11th birthday. I was just old enough to understand what was happening after the second plane hit the second tower, but young enough to not feel the trauma as intensely as my parents, or even my big sister who is just 11 months older than I am.
I do remember certain moments. I was asleep when the first plane hit. I don’t remember if I was woken up, or if I woke up on my own, but I do remember walking into the living room to a very quiet family, which is rare for us. Everyone was still trying to figure out what had happened and wanting to believe it was simply a horrifically tragic accident. I remember when the second plane hit, my mom yelled “We’re under attack!”
I also remember watching the news and seeing countries all over the world play the Star Spangled Banner. I couldn’t grasp the full weight of that back then, but I remember taking note.
What I remember most, however, was the cultural impact that took place in the months following the attacks. I remember people being scared, angry, and unsure of whether or not they’d fly again. I remember hearing stories of people accosting and attacking darker-skinned men with head wraps on because they looked Muslim. I remember around that time also being aware of child slavery in Sudan and wondering if I would be captured and made into a slave one day as a result of these attacks. The better part of a decade passed before I stopped wondering about that.
My impression, even as an 11 year-old, was that something seemed a little off. I remember messages going out that we don’t want our Muslim American citizens to feel threatened because some other Muslims from another country committed a terrorist act. That message resonated with me. Re-establishing the American connection between each other. Reassuring one another. Moving forward together. I loved it.
But I also noticed something else. That something else was something I could not label because I didn’t yet know the word. That word is gaslighting. Yes, as an 11-year-old, I witnessed serious gaslighting in ways that would anger me. I saw how we went from trying to bring peace and harmony (at least ostensibly), to diminishing and denigrating those who were simply dealing with the trauma of it all. We went from rightfully discouraging people from beating up Muslims and people who looked Muslim, to making fun of those who simply felt nervous at an airport if they saw a Muslim or Muslim-looking person board their plane. One is extreme. The other should have been understandable. It wasn’t about Muslims specifically. If the perpetrators of 9/11 were skinhead white men with mustaches, millions of Americans would be nervous to board their flight if they spotted a mustache-wearing skinhead on their flight. It may not be rational, but fear never is. To then shame them for simply feeling a certain way; to depict them on TV shows and commercials as these bumbling Arab-hating White racists was wrong.
I couldn’t put my finger on it back then, but as a 33 year-old, and with the power of the internet, I’ve been able to look back on some things. One of which is this:
Just six days after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush visited the Islamic Centre in Washington D.C., and gave a speech. In short, the speech was about hatred of Muslims not being tolerated, and Islam being a “religion of peace” and unity for people all over the world. This was and is still praised as being a gesture of goodwill; and no doubt, this came about after the administration received pressure from the Council on Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR). If you watch the video, you’ll see the gentleman standing behind President Bush on the right side is the Executive Director of CAIR, Nihad Awad.
It’s becoming less and less of a secret how much CAIR covers for global terror while claiming to be a civil rights organization. That’s another article for another day. But what we do know about Nihad Awad is that just recently, immediately following Hamas’s brutal raping, torturing, killing, and kidnapping on October 7th (which is now considered Israel’s 9/11), Nihad Awad expressed joy. Awad said he was happy about October 7th. When pressed, he doubled down. How can you be a leader of a human rights group and celebrate the burning of babies, raping of women, and kidnapping and slaughtering of children? The answer is simple: you’re not the leader of a human rights group. You’re the leader of a propaganda arm for evil.
For those who remember, just a few years ago in 2019, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar came under fire for her comments on 9/11. Omar made the following statement:
"Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it...CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,"
The outrage ensued at her “some people did something” comment. It was blasted for being insensitive and downplaying the magnitude of what that “something” actually was. I took a different issue with it. I wasn’t sure the exact year, but I just knew CAIR wasn’t founded after 9/11. When I looked it up, I saw that CAIR was indeed founded in 1994; seven years before the Congresswoman said it was founded, and for not the same reasons at all. She lied. Why would she lie? I asked myself these questions.
I still don’t have the answer, but I do know that the subtle gaslighting that rubbed me the wrong way as an 11-year-old was not so subtle when I was 28, and is about as subtle as a bull in a china shop today. The general public is noticing more and more. What is being labeled as ‘Islamophobia’ today is anything that criticizes Islam in any way, no matter how valid. Talking about the history of Arab enslavement of Black Africans, and how it continues today is considered ‘Islamophobic.’ To some, this entire article is ‘Islamophobic.’
That campaign has been so successful over the past few decades, that many of us have been psychologically compromised and aren’t even aware. We see it in times of crisis though. In 2015, right after the Islamist couple shot up a public place in San Bernardino, CA, one of their neighbors spoke up in an interview and said that they noticed extremely suspicious behavior, but decided not to say anything for fear of being called racist or Islamophobic. A UPS man said that he would deliver up to 12 packages in one day, which he also found suspicious, but also said nothing.
I know that is the norm my generation and younger have grown up in, but it is not supposed to be. What we are seeing now with Gen Z kids on TikTok praising Osama Bin Laden and even worse, college professors and students celebrating all over the US what Hamas did on October 7th, is a result of about 30 years of mental and emotional warfare, and we are losing.
What’s next? Something much worse if we continue playing by the rules of the ones whom we allowed to psychologically compromise us in the first place.
Truth has to be our anchor. Anything else will kill us.
Thank you for this very important article.
This was such a profound article. The truth is the light in this dark world. Thank you for always sharing the truth.