Allahu Akbar and Ho Ho Ho
“A flag bearing a crescent and star flies from a flagpole in front of the World Trade Center, next to a Christmas tree and a menorah.”
New York Times, 1997
In
1997, Mohammed T. Mehdi, the head of the Arab-American Committee and
the National Council on Islamic Affairs, lobbied to have a crescent and
star put up at the World Trade Center during
the holiday season. His wish was granted, despite the fact that he had
been an adviser to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman also known as the Blind
Sheikh.
In the name of diversity and political correctness, an adviser to the
religious leader behind the World Trade Center bombing, was allowed to
plant an Islamic symbol of conquest in the very place that had been
bombed.
Long before the Ground Zero Mosque was even a twinkle in the eye of aviolent ex-waiter and a slumlord Imam, the World Trade Center allowed Mohammed T. Mehdi to bully it into flying the symbol of Islam.
By 1997, Mohammed T. Mehdi had become an unambiguously ugly public figure. He had been fired by Mayor Dinkins in 1992 for anti-Semitic remarks. The year before he had proclaimed that, “Millions of Arabs believe Saddam stands tall having defied Western colonialism“.
In 1995, the US Attorney’s Office in New York had listed Mehdi as anunindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Sheikh Rahman. Mehdi had already published a book titled “Kennedy and Sirhan: Why?”, which contended that Robert Kennedy’s assassin had been acting in self-defense.
Because of Mehdi’s role in actively working on behalf of the Sheikh behind the wave of terrorism that included the original attack on the World Trade Center, turning down his request should have been a no-brainer. Instead in the winter of 1997 there was an Islamic star and crescent at the World Trade Center. And another one at the park in front of the White House.
Four years before the September 11 attacks; both targets had already been marked.
By 1997, Mohammed T. Mehdi had become an unambiguously ugly public figure. He had been fired by Mayor Dinkins in 1992 for anti-Semitic remarks. The year before he had proclaimed that, “Millions of Arabs believe Saddam stands tall having defied Western colonialism“.
In 1995, the US Attorney’s Office in New York had listed Mehdi as anunindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Sheikh Rahman. Mehdi had already published a book titled “Kennedy and Sirhan: Why?”, which contended that Robert Kennedy’s assassin had been acting in self-defense.
Because of Mehdi’s role in actively working on behalf of the Sheikh behind the wave of terrorism that included the original attack on the World Trade Center, turning down his request should have been a no-brainer. Instead in the winter of 1997 there was an Islamic star and crescent at the World Trade Center. And another one at the park in front of the White House.
Four years before the September 11 attacks; both targets had already been marked.
The previous year had marked the first annual Ramadan dinner at the
State Department, integrating the Islamic celebration into the Clinton
Administration’s schedule of events. Bill Clinton had not visited the
World Trade Center after the bombing, but he did make time for Ramadan.
A month after 9/11, Bush went Clinton one better when he became the first president to host a Ramadan dinner at the White House.
Many of the Muslim ambassadors at the event were representing countries
that helped finance Al Qaeda. Little more than a month after September
11, the President of the United States sat down to break bread with the
money men behind the attacks.
The Star and Crescent flying at the World Trade Center did not prevent
it from being targeted in a second greater attack four years later. Nor
did the Ramadan dinners keep the plane headed for the White House at
bay. It took the self-sacrifice of its American passengers to do that.
Instead every gesture of appeasement only seemed to make it worse.
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