Fifteen Years After 9/11: Living in a 9/10 World
A 9/11 survivor-turned-terrorism-analyst reflects on America’s slumber.
September 12, 2016 Deborah Weiss
I lived in the closest residence to the World Trade Center (Gateway
Plaza), which was immediately deemed a crime scene after the terrorist
attack. An entire wall was blown off my workplace high-rise building. I
ran for my life, jumped onto a Coast Guard rescue ferry and made my way
to the home of strangers in New Jersey, who were kind enough to take me
in. I was homeless for two months. My office was closed and displaced
for eight months. It took years to recover from the trauma of 9/11, and
yet, I was one of the more fortunate ones: I survived.
Fifteen years later, I reflect on my career and the state of our nation. I relinquished my career as an attorney, choosing instead to devote my life to our nation’s security and raising awareness of the jihadi threat in all its forms. I developed an expertise in the Islamist stifling of speech known as blasphemy laws or “defamation of religions” and its implications for national security, religious freedom and human rights. I now teach, speak and write on these subjects.
I am saddened to report that in many respects, we are not safer this September, 2016, than we were on September 10, 2001. To the contrary, we are moving in the wrong direction. The Enemy Threat Doctrine mandates that in order to win a war, we must know our enemy and know ourselves. I fear we don’t know either. We have relinquished our Judeo-Christian values in favor of multi-culturalism, eschewed the notion of American exceptionalism, and embraced Islam as an innocuous religion, willfully ignoring its pernicious political aspects.
The War on Terror is not primarily kinetic in nature. It is an ideological war. The other side is successfully waging disinformation campaigns and influence operations to persuade us to unwittingly assist them in sabotaging the West from within. We are facing the existential threat of Sharia in all its forms, both violent and stealth.
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Fifteen years later, I reflect on my career and the state of our nation. I relinquished my career as an attorney, choosing instead to devote my life to our nation’s security and raising awareness of the jihadi threat in all its forms. I developed an expertise in the Islamist stifling of speech known as blasphemy laws or “defamation of religions” and its implications for national security, religious freedom and human rights. I now teach, speak and write on these subjects.
I am saddened to report that in many respects, we are not safer this September, 2016, than we were on September 10, 2001. To the contrary, we are moving in the wrong direction. The Enemy Threat Doctrine mandates that in order to win a war, we must know our enemy and know ourselves. I fear we don’t know either. We have relinquished our Judeo-Christian values in favor of multi-culturalism, eschewed the notion of American exceptionalism, and embraced Islam as an innocuous religion, willfully ignoring its pernicious political aspects.
The War on Terror is not primarily kinetic in nature. It is an ideological war. The other side is successfully waging disinformation campaigns and influence operations to persuade us to unwittingly assist them in sabotaging the West from within. We are facing the existential threat of Sharia in all its forms, both violent and stealth.
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