[ April 19, 2024 ]
A teaching moment squandered. Instead the jihad force was rewarded with submission and dawah. Mission accomplished.
Photo: President Bush standing with terror-tied CAIR top dog Nihad Awad just six days after September 11, 2001.
Bush after 9/11: “Islam is peace.” The historical record says otherwise.
I wrote my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS mostly chronologically, starting with Muhammad’s conquests in Arabia and moving forward. It’s a bloody history, and one indelible impression one gets from proceeding through the centuries of jihad warfare is of the persistence of the jihadis. They never give up, they never give in, and they never take any setback, no matter how devastating, as decisive. They keep coming, and have kept coming at non-Muslims, from Spain to India and elsewhere, as I show in the book, without respite, without reprieve, without reform.
Story continues below advertisementThe last chapter of The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS deals with jihad in the twenty-first century, and opens with 9/11. After having written the story of nearly fourteen hundred years of relentless jihad warfare, George W. Bush’s “Islam is peace” speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. six days after 9/11 jolted me as it never had previously. Reading Bush’s speech after going through the details of fourteen centuries of jihad against non-Muslims made the speech appear much more startlingly fatuous and self-defeating than it already had even to me. Bush’s suicidal willful ignorance, coming after so much jihad warfare, so many ruined lives, so much bloodshed — it hit me with a wallop.
This book establishes definitively why the West’s entire approach to the global jihad threat since 9/11 has been so wrongheaded and is leading us to political, cultural, and societal disaster. I’ve been trying to sound the alarm on this for many years now, while the moneyed forces of the “Islamophobia” hysteria industry have won the day and marginalized those of us who have been telling the truth about what is happening. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is my last effort to try to show people the nature and magnitude of the threat we face. Bush’s speech is just one of many missteps and mistakes made by leaders throughout history when faced with the jihad force. My hope is that if this history is more widely known, and those missteps and mistakes highlighted and explained, maybe some people will wake up to what is happening before it is too late.
Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here now.
On September 17, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush appeared at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., in the company of several prominent Muslim leaders, and said:
These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that.
The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.
When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race—out of every race.
As Americans still searched the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center for the remains of their loved ones, President Bush cautioned Americans against thinking ill of Muslims, as if the 9/11 attacks had been perpetrated by Americans targeting Muslims:
America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.
Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That’s not the America I know. That’s not the America I value.
I’ve been told that some fear to leave; some don’t want to go shopping for their families; some don’t want to go about their ordinary daily routines because, by wearing cover, they’re afraid they’ll be intimidated. That should not and that will not stand in America.
Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don’t represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.
This is a great country. It’s a great country because we share the same values of respect and dignity and human worth. And it is my honor to be meeting with leaders who feel just the same way I do. They’re outraged, they’re sad. They love America just as much as I do.
Muslims were not being subjected to wholesale vigilante attacks in the United States, at that time or at any point subsequently. This speech was an exercise in vassalage that would have made the late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Byzantine emperors ashamed, yet Bush was by no means alone. Political leaders all over the West echoed his words about Islam’s being a religion of peace, having nothing to do with terrorism. After September 11, this became a commonplace of the Western political discourse, rejected only by a small minority, who were quickly stigmatized as cranks.
All these years later, it is clear: Bush’s speech set the pattern. After every jihad attack, non-Muslim leaders have followed his example, making it their highest priority to affirm that Islam is peace and that Muslims are victims. Bush deformed the West’s response to the resurgent jihad, and poisoned the public discourse so that attempts to discuss this problem honestly are consigned to the realms of “Islamophobia” and condemned by all right-thinking people.
This could be Bush’s most enduring, and most damaging, legacy. Order The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here now.
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31 Comments
5 years ago
The bush crime family submitted to Islam long ago. The deep state likes Islam because it keeps people dumbed down and permits pedophilia. However the people are rising up to take down these criminals.
5 years ago
Reply to
Abby
They are saudi puppets who made american policy slave of saudis. in fact former saudi King Fahd had claimed America was their slaves.
Jihadi says in arabic “conquest of America” must for establishing islamic caliphate https://tinyurl.com/y7kuzjdw
And that group is active in EU/Australia/North America !
5 years ago
Deeply aligned with Saudi Arabia, the Bush family tree gained mega-millions from its middle eastern alliances. Nor was the Bush family the only American, political elitists who reap benefits from its kowtowing to oil-rich tyrants. Criticizing Islam is a no-no in the Western political milieu, excluding President Trump. Trump, also, has to walk the political tightrope, perhaps to leave the negotiation door ajar by a smidgen. He, nevertheless, refuses to bow to the Islam/Arab demands unlike his predecessor(s), especially Obama.
I agree; George W’s ‘Islam is a religion of Peace’ after 9/11 was naive, utterly gullible; nevertheless, Bush, unlike Obama, Carter, and the Clinton dynasty is nearer a patriot than they. The political status quo fear they may not recover from Trump’s presidency; their alliances with the Middle Eastern oil barons are in jeopardy.
5 years ago
You have to UNDERSTAND what islam is about. First you should understand the history of Judaism and Christianity. Then learn more about islam. You ever wonder why the muslim world hates Israel? You’ll find out
5 years ago
Bush’s public ignorance of Islam was most annoying.
5 years ago
Reply to
NotTheMama
It was not ignorance, the Bush Family was part of the house of Saud. He smuggled out the Bin Laden family in the dark of night while other flights were grounded.
5 years ago
When Bush looked right into the camera and told his country that big whopping lie, I turned to my wife and said “Our grandchildren will be fighting this one–if we don’t lose first.”.
Days after Muslims murdered 3,000 Americans, our President sold us out.
5 years ago
Reply to
texican2013
He looked right into the camera from reading the script on the lectern in front of him, a script that was the result of his meeting with “these folks”, namely CAIR. The special hushed voice gave his words greater power. The hushed reverential voice was copied by Blair, Brown, Cameron, and Clegg,
See “The Duping of Cameron” at Liberty GB site:
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/duping-cameron
5 years ago
Reply to
texican2013
The “Islam is a religion of peace” speech, written for the president in order to enable Mr. Bush to appear as a statesman, will endure, much to his detriment.
Similarly, his “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 is also a permanent embarrassment.
I don’t think, in the former case, that Bush was selling the country out; I just think he found himself a bit over his head – a perfect example of the downside of political dynasties.
5 years ago
As bad as Obama was, Bush did more to destroy the country. A normal leader would have, at the very least, stopped all Muslim immigration and at best deported the ones here. The public would have supported it 100%. I also believe the Muslims collect far more in benefits than they contribute in taxes. They are a drag on the economy even if they weren’t so dangerous.
Another completely insane idea of Bush’s was the amnesty for the illegals. Thank goodness that never happened. He was a complete disaster in every area. I am so glad Trump destroyed Jeb before he even got started. Two Bushes were far too many and a third would have ended America as we know it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Jensen
The blue print has long been there. Obama was totally in your face with trying to finish us off.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Jensen
I agree with you Dave. I retched when I heard GWB proclaim “Islam is Peace.” He did not say that Islam is a “religion” of peace as is commonly misquoted. He said that Islam itself was peace. I found myself wondering if he had ever studied world history or knew anything about Islam. But that proclamation set the tone for everything that followed. I believe that it set the stage for the election of BHO. Will this country ever recover from this assault by a POTUS?
5 years ago
Well we know what they Bush family is all about. They backed and voted Hillary except for Jeb’s son, George who still wants a political career and currently serving as the Land Commissioner in Texas. All the others rallied for HILDEBEAST! GWB has an undergraduate degree in world history. He knew better than to LIE and state ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE. Geesh! His father, Bush Sr. wanted a new world order and GWB followed up with ridiculous nation building. The Bush’s are the global elite that could care less about you!
5 years ago
after that stupidity things began goins south for him. with good cause.
5 years ago
Um, it is so not. Most Texans would not agree with him either. So much political correctness even in the Republican Party it is ridiculous.
5 years ago
It was a STUPID remark from a fatherless moron. Told to say this for money, power, payback, or whatever. Confuse the American people and put everything about Moslems back to square one to use them again whenever the American people need to be controlled and separated from their Constitution.
Or perhaps for the next False F ag operation. The one called obama. I’m surprised he did not say right after that sodomy is good for hemorrhoids.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Bushes trying to pull the wool over our eyes did not work. Here are a few verses directly from the kuran, read and learn:
Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know (8:60)
Strive hard (Jihad) against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell, an evil refuge indeed. (66:9, See also 9:73)
…He whom Allah sendeth astray, for him there is no guide. For them is a penalty in the life of this world, but harder, truly, is the penalty of the Hereafter… (13:33-34)
Fight them, allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace… (9:14)
And fight them until there is no more faith(?) unbelief, worshipping others beside allah), and religion is all for allah… (8:39)
We shall punish them gradually from directions they perceive not. (68:44)
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. (9:123)
The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. allahs curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (9:30)
Listen not to the unbelievers, but strive (Jihad) against them with the utmost strenuousness. (25:52)
O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof against yourselves? (4:144)
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk. (5:51)
For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies (4:101)
5 years ago
Well, no-one ever accused bush of being smart…
5 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
That is correct and when he said “Islam is peace” I realized that he either was dumb as a rock or simply never exposed to the history of islamic conquest by the sword.
5 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
I always believed he was both stupid and corrupt.
I mean, secretly getting the bin laden family out of America??
They should have been the first ones facing the waterboards and other extremely prejudicial interrogation techniques!
5 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
He was smart when Cheney had his arm up his sock puppet azzzz.
5 years ago
G. Bush, both, are idiots! Islam is the greatest threat to ANY world peace. The form of government and church this group calls for is non stop conquest and subjugation of any people who disagree with them, then genocide. THAT IS what happened in history and has never been changed. OF course all the people who were paid off are saying this isn’t so and are trying to rewrite history to reflect some nirvana that is not there. Murder is their calling card.
5 years ago
My suggested reading list for Bush 43 is short and simple, Clausewitz’s “On War” and Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, and in the interest of being well-rounded, Trump’s “The Art of the Deal”.
I have and have read all three.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
G.W. is a idot! He should have read the whole Koran, instead of a couple of lines handed to him by CAIR!
The Koran is nothing more than a war manual against the unbeliever!
5 years ago
If someone loaded up a 747 with gold & treasure and gave it to me I might defend them also.
Muslims learned long ago to bribe key infidels to open the gates of the city.
They have bought their way into Europe & the USA.
5 years ago
W is a traitor!
5 years ago
Bush unlike McCain, was in fear of deadly retaliation against Muslims in the US. Which should have happened, but did not. McCain was a member and supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood! The men in the US, have lost their “balls.” They avoid any type of confrontation that might become physical.
