Ever since that day that will live in infamy and it was not Pearl Harbor, 9/11 occurred, a certain faction of the population has been singled out as being terrorists with the desire to unleash jihad or holy war all over the world. I am tired of this happening and I am going to attempt to reverse the way people think about people of the Muslim faith by refuting this stigmatization of them. Now, I am not naive enough to realize that there are Muslims not only residing in this country but throughout the world who seek to harm others in the name of jihad but the sad fact of the matter is that it is my belief that our government, with the help of certain individuals, went out of their way to start the ball rolling with the Muslim Osama bin Laden and members of Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization also manned by Muslims, being blamed for that heinous act and then fast forward to the present with the tragic events resulting in mass carnage in Paris and Brussels to the mass killing in San Bernardino, California by Syed Rizwan and Tashfeen Malik in the past year being blamed on the new terrorist organization to wreak havoc throughout the world known as ISIS, which consists of Muslims. A day seldom goes by that some sort of news story that deals with ISIS is not run on the nightly news. Now, one has to wonder why Muslims have become the target of so much resentment and became the pariah of the world. My goal is to explore the reasons why this started happening immediately after 9/11 and is still go strong today, who stood to gain from this alienation, and who in fact is the actual enemy before it is too late.
Common sense will tell one that the reason why a part of the population starts being in the cross hairs of hate is that those responsible have a motivation that is usually very nefarious in nature that is designed to benefit the orchestrators of such a strategy in terms of enhancing the power they have over the people that elected them. With this being said, let’s examine how President Bush exploited 9/11 to afford him with more control of us than he was entitled to have and to hopefully assist him in erasing all of the failures he had experienced earlier in his life.
Immediately after 9/11, the president and his cabal trumpeted how Osama bin Laden and his followers from Al Qaeda had orchestrated and executed the attack using commercial airliners that brought down the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, inflicted serious damage on the Pentagon, and were it not for some brave passengers aboard Flight 93 that tried to wrestle control of the plane from the hijackers that resulted in the plane crashing in a field in Pennsylvania, the Capitol would have been struck. Now, this propaganda was disseminated across the various mediums on a daily basis after 9/11 and this was the start of the indoctrination process that Muslims were tantamount to the devil, could not be trusted to not attack us again and since Osama bin Laden was from Afghanistan, we needed to seek him out to punish him for what he wrought. Subsequently, in October of 2001, the president ordered the beginning of a bombing campaign and the infusion of ground forces to hopefully drive bin Laden out of hiding and inflict the same kind of pain on him he did to us. Unfortunately, this objective did not occur until 2011 but our forces are still there and will never leave and you will see why soon.
For President Bush, who had been a failure at every task he had ever pursued when he was younger, his popularity skyrocketed after Afghanistan was attacked and he became known as the ‘War President.’ He was on top of the world and regardless of how inept he had been with all of the opportunities he had been afforded and squandered when he was younger, that paled in comparison with what he had just accomplished. This continued for a period of time and when this rating would start to wane, all he had to do was bring up 9/11 to remind people of this country how horrible Muslims were and that we needed to be constantly on guard for the next attack. None of this was true but after a few years of this subliminal brainwashing, including the current dose being dished out daily about ISIS, which is supposedly crueler than Al Qaeda, most of the population actually assimilated this bovine excretion and with the assistance of President Obama and his administration taking the torch of deception from George W Bush, people have really forgotten what is most important in this country and it has nothing to do with its security.
Over the past nine years, our country has been in the grips of the Second Great Depression, no matter what the pundits, members of Congress, the president, and the news media state. Millions of people are unemployed, underemployed, or have simply given up looking for a job because of the fact that the business leaders of this country, with the blessing of members of Congress and presidents starting with Reagan, developed a collusionary relationship where the people we elect to represent us have passed tax and trade policies which encourage the shipping of millions of good paying jobs overseas to low wage earning countries under the guise of globalization so that the CEOs could rake in millions of dollars in salaries and in the process, pay our elected officials enormous sums of money through the army of lobbyists that roam the halls of the Capitol and the White House to reward them for their good deeds making these same people rich beyond their wildest dreams while the American workers continue to die on the vine.
On top of the bleak employment picture, the policies discussed above allowed the employers of this country to stagnate the natural growth of wages leaving the current national minimum wage at $7.25, which after doing my own research as to what it should be based on a current worker’s productivity is slightly over $18 an hour. This fact accounts for why the number of people impoverished and hungry continues to grow daily and the only sector of the economy that has profited is the top 1% of the income earners. When the richest nation in the world has to have a Feed the Hungry Program and one in five children go hungry every day, there had to be a strategy for the government to execute to deflect attention from these disgraceful facts and what better way than via scaring us to death about our security by not only drowning the airwaves with news about attacks throughout the country and the world by Muslims, the prime time television shows are overrun with plots about terrorism and it always involves Muslims.
The seed of fear that Bush planted back in 2001 and watered throughout his two terms and then passed that task to Obama was carried out so that we would not rise up and revolt against the government and eliminate the free passes being given to the business leaders, who are among the top 1% of the income earners, with the policies that had been passed over the decades to enhance their bottom lines and pad the bank accounts of our elected officials at the expense of the financial survival of 99% of the population.
What is imperative for the survival of this country is to stop focusing on the threat of Muslims carrying out more attacks and realize that they are not the true enemy since the federal government has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are our main adversary ever since the Patriot Act replaced the Constitution a few days after 9/11 occurred. According to the government, this piece of legislation was going to protect the country from further attacks but failed to state that our freedoms, rights, and privacy would be compromised in the process and was in fact corroborated a couple of years ago by Edward Snowden when he divulged that our elected officials had betrayed us by collecting billions of our phone calls and e-mails all under the guise that they were attempting to weed out terrorists when in fact they were compiling lists of people who would be considered dissenters since they were concerned that these same people would orchestrate and execute a revolution to take back the country and replace the members of our illustrious government with people who would respect our rights, freedoms, and privacy and reinstate the Constitution, which was designed to protect us from a government imposing there will on us to control us instead of simply representing us as they were elected to do in the first place.
This being the case leads me to encourage the citizens of this country to stop believing all of the hype about how insidious Muslims are and start inundating your respective representatives in Congress, as well as the president, with how disgusted you are with how they have ignored the financial well-being of the residents of this once great country so that we can have the same chance to realize the American Dream that they were fortuitous enough to enjoy with an ultimatum that if they don’t, they will either be voted out or removed in another fashion, if you catch my drift. I mention this because our government is in the process of renewing our presence in the Middle East with the new enemy being the terrorist organization ISIS, which is, by the way, an organization that consists of Muslims that the CIA paid to recruit and one which we are supplying via the country of Turkey, with the hope that the millions of people struggling to make ends meet on a daily basis will hopefully refocus their attention from their economic plights and redirect it to the security of the country as Bush and Obama have done over the past 15 years and avert an uprising by the populous while sacrificing again countless numbers of our brave men and women again who serve this great nation every day in the various branches of the military.