Speaking at Notre Dame on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, atrocities, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh reflected on the terrorists’ hatred of America as a motivating force.
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“The reason they attacked us is because they hate our Constitution, which I carry with me all the time.
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They hate our values,” he explained.
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“They hate freedom of religion.
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They hate freedom of speech.
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And we have preserved that in the 25 years since.
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We’ve preserved a lot as a country and thrived as a country notwithstanding what happened.”
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This factual assessment was assailed by critics, including one who has apologized to his fellow leftists for railing against non-Muslims as “cattle.”
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In response to Kavanaugh’s comments, he sneered, “This is child-like ignorance and inanity and embarrassing to see from a Supreme Court justice.
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We are governed by right-wing idiots at all the highest levels of our government.”
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Is it actually embarrassing, idiotic ignorance, and inanity to assert that jihadis attacked America for the reasons Kavanaugh mentioned?
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Let’s consult two important sources on the subject.
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One is the intellectual godfather of radical, violent Islamism, Sayyid Qutb, who inspired organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
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Qutb spent years studying in rural, conservative Colorado, in a “dry” town during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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He nevertheless perceived the culture around him to be scandalous and decadent.
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He seethed about American music, clutched his proverbial pearls over coed dances, spat disgust at muscular men, and even complained about the local barbers.
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He viewed the community’s women as sexualized harlots, ranting about how the average American woman “knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs and she shows all this and does not hide it.
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Again, this was in the tame Leave It To Beaver sockhop era.
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Disgusted by Americans’ allegedly “primitive desires,” he left the United States and began formulating the intellectual and theological underpinnings for violent jihad.
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That twisted cause was eventually taken up by the other relevant source in this discussion, Osama bin Laden, who wrote a letter to Americans after orchestrating a mass murder of their fellow countrymen in 2001.
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After meandering diatribes about the Jews and Palestine and supposed U.S. crimes, bin Laden wrote that murdering civilians was permissible because Americans see their country “as the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world.
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Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will.”
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The spiritual approval for mass murder, he added, was divine: “Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge.”
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He then posed two questions on behalf of al Qaeda.
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“What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?”
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He furnished answers: “The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.”
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Revisionists insist that it’s bigotry to connect the 9/11 attacks to religion.
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But religion was bin Laden’s overwhelming, explicitly stated motivation.
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His demented propaganda screed went on:
“The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
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We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
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We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
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It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind: You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire.
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You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator.”
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His murderous scolding continued with scathing references to factors such as the legality of alcohol, gambling, and various “acts of immorality,” which he derided as “pillars of personal freedom,” in the Infidels’ worldview.
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He excoriated the alleged “exploitation’ of women in the service industry, doing jobs such as waitressing, calling it a treacherous manipulation to allow females to “serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins.”
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These are direct attacks against our values, our freedoms, our way of life, our constitution, our system of government, our pluralistic society, and, generally, our refusal to live under Shariah supremacism.
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Kavanaugh, unlike his ignorant detractors, was correct about bin Laden’s grievances because bin Laden told us what they were.
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The deceased arch-terrorist also issued additional threats, replete with Quranic citations:
“If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation.
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The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him …
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The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life …
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…and 13 more, not listed.
The Aporia
