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“No home-grown terrorists in America.”  I read that sign and I think “tell it to Melvin Bledsoe.”

In March of 2011, when U.S. Representative King held his hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives’ Homeland Security Committee regarding homegrown Islamic radicalization, he was called everything from a bigot (of course) to someone who was looking to stir up animosity between groups of Americans.

The hearings were set to examine “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response” in the wake of several high-profile incidents linked to American Muslims such as the mass-shooting of Army soldiers at the Ft. Hood Army base by fellow soldier Nidal Hassan and the call for the death of a couple of American cartoonists and subsequent attempt to join As-Sahab by American-born Zachary Chesser, who became radicalized while at college.

On the list of people invited to speak to the committee were such people as Rep. Keith Ellison, who is the first Muslim elected to the House of Representatives and Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy.  But to me, the most compelling of the guest list was Mr. Melvin Bledsoe, Private Citizen.

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There will be a plethora of articles today about the events surrounding 09/11/2001, the day radical Islam declared war on the civilised world. Un:dhimmi contributor Star takes a more personal approach here, looking through the eyes of two people who were there:

A few weeks ago, I took a class in making silver jewelry from precious metal clay.  I was on my way to the studio to finish up some rings that I had made for my daughters and I and had to detour a bit because there was a 3-alarm fire in a shop at the opposite end of the shopping center from the studio.  No big deal, right?  So as I was sitting there working on my rings, I heard a lady who was in the shop say that she just didn’t want to go outside.  I told her that it was alright because the fire was quite a distance away from us and it was completely under control.

She looked at me with haunted eyes and said “I was in Tower One on September 11th.”

Wow.  You could have heard a pin drop and I just stammered and told her I was so sorry.  I asked a few questions, and in the process I learned that she was on the 51st floor and walked down in high heels after Rick Rescorla got them moving.  She walked home across the Brooklyn Bridge.  It took fifteen hours in high heels.  She said that she got home, and the next morning, got up, packed her car and said she was heading to her mother’s home where people were normal.  Her husband followed later that week and they got transfers from their jobs and moved.

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This picture above really shows the desperation more than any other.  I can’t really imagine how many people were killed on 9-11.  I challenge you to simply read each of their names in remembrance.  When you’re done, I believe you will have a more accurate picture of just what the terrorists stole from our country on 9-11.  And why we will NEVER forget.

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To read the story of any of the victims of the 9-11 Terrorist attacks, click on their name.
If there is an asterisk after their name, you will find a picture of the person at the link.

World Trade Center
Gordon McCannel Aamoth, 32, New York, N.Y.*
Maria Rose Abad, 49, Syosset, N.Y.*
Edelmiro (Ed) Abad, 54, New York, N.Y.*
Andrew Anthony Abate, 37, Melville, N.Y.*
Vincent Abate, 40, New York, N.Y.*
Laurence Christopher Abel, 37*
William F. Abrahamson, 58, Cortland Manor, N.Y.*
Richard Anthony Aceto, 42, Wantagh, N.Y.*
Erica Van Acker, 62, New York, N.Y.*
Heinrich B. Ackermann, 38, New York, N.Y.*
Paul Andrew Acquaviva, 29, Glen Rock, N.J.*
Donald L. Adams, 28, Chatham, N.J.*
Shannon Lewis Adams, 25, New York, N.Y.*
Stephen Adams, 51, New York, N.Y.*
Patrick Adams, 60, New York, N.Y.*
Ignatius Adanga, 62, New York, N.Y.*
Christy A. Addamo, 28, New Hyde Park, N.Y.*
Terence E. Adderley, 22, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.*
Sophia B. Addo, 36, New York, N.Y.*

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One of our guest authors, Star, from the formidable YouTube Smackdown Corps (who also provide us with examples of the gruesome Islamo-terror video content for our weekly Google YouTube Hall of Shame slot, catalogues the downfall of a YouTube Jihadist:

At YouTube Smackdown, we have long seen the connection between terrorism and YouTube.  We have played connect-the-dots many times, plainly showing how videos hosted for free on servers in the United States are being used in internet forums all across the world wide web to radicalize, indoctrinate, encourage and recruit fresh trainees.  We have worked to get countless YouTube users suspended for these activities – and if you are familiar with us at all, you know that the fruit our labor is all too often a sense of frustration. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2006, Mahmoud Aldebe, one of the Board members of the Muslim Council of Sweden (SMR) sent a letter to all the political parties demanding that Sharia law be enacted in Sweden.  The backlash that ensued included condemnation from all parties and one party, the Swedish Liberal Party, requested an investigation into public funding for the organization.  Now there is a new rise in anti-immigration — and more specifically anti-Muslim immigration — in Sweden.  This story is from Reuters.

Swedish far right eyes first parliament seats

By Patrick Lannin and Johan Ahlander
LANDSKRONA, Sweden | Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:53am EDT

LANDSKRONA, Sweden (Reuters) – In Sweden’s last general election, a surge in voter support for an anti-immigrant party in this small, southern coastal town shocked a nation long regarded as one of the world’s most liberal.

That party, the Sweden Democrats, now hopes to win its first parliamentary seats in elections on September 19, a radical departure for the country could make forming a new government more difficult for the established parties.

Svenny Hakansson, 77, looks like a kindly grandfather — mild-mannered and friendly, with an easy smile. Yet the local councilor’s political views are tough.

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