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Palestinian Authority Newspaper: Freemasons Behind Sept. 11 Attacks

-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger

800px-Flag_of_PalestineAl-Hayat al-Jadida, the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, published an Op-ed by Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher. The Op-ed states: “to the lie about Al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons.” While there are many conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks, there are usually relegated to fringe websites. Unsurprisingly, no evidence is presented to support such a fanciful claim.

This is Islamic lunacy and should be opposed by all rational human beings. That this lunacy is supported by the Palestinian Authority confirms a World Public Opinion poll that showed that 46% of Palestinians believe that the U.S. government or Israel was behind the attacks.

This degree of credulousness is not unexpected when people are raised from infancy to believe nonsense, such as Muhammad ascending to heaven on a winged horse. Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote on this subject in the 19th century:

If, in early childhood, certain fundamental views and doctrines are paraded with unusual solemnity, and an air of the greatest earnestness never before visible in anything else; if, at the same time, the possibility of a doubt about them be completely passed over, or touched upon only to indicate that doubt is the first step to eternal perdition, the resulting impression will be so deep that, as a rule, that is, in almost every case, doubt about them will be almost as impossible as doubt about one’s own existence.

A Sophisticated Islamic Theologian™ might assert that no true Muslim would have committed the attacks on Sept. 11, in contradiction to the available evidence, including the admission by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that he orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. However, this would be an example of the No True Scotsman logical fallacy where “an individual attempts to avoid being associated with an unpleasant act by asserting that no true member of the group they belong to would do such a thing.”

James Madison wrote of the importance of a “perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters” in his letter to Edward Livingston in 1822. While Madison’s “perfect separation” is under constant attack, we need not look far to see the effect of ignoring his wisdom.

H/T: Jerry Coyne.

100 thoughts on “Palestinian Authority Newspaper: Freemasons Behind Sept. 11 Attacks”

  1. In addition to controlling the mainstream media, organized religion was used to help spearhead the Neo-Con takeover in2000. Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition, helped put Bush into office (along with stopping a recount by the Supreme Court). When the government bailed out the criminals responsible for the Wall Street collapse, it indicated better than anything who really controls the government. The upper 1% like the Koch Bros. contributes to right wing Christian organizations, as well as the Tea Party, and ALEC. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross,” Sinclair Lewis. Members of congress now wear a flag on their lapel to indicate how “patriotic” they are, while many never served in the military, much less in combat. Yet, they are willing to send the poor into harm’s way at the drop of a hat! Like Bush, many are “chicken hawks,” and the cabal of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, and Rice, should have been impeached! Unfortunately in 2006 when the Democrats had the chance, Nancy Pelosi stated on TV that they would not even investigate Bush for Impeachment! Yet more money was spent investigation Bill Clinton, than was spent investigating 911. With all the speeches made by Obama prior to winning in 2008, one can see that he has failed to turn back Bush polices as promised. Instead, he has re-enforced many repressive measures such as the NDAA, and summary executions. Obama’s Attorney General Erick Holder says that this is “Due Process,” when everyone knows that Due Process means a speedy trial by a jury of one’s peers (no military tribunal or indefinite confinement), right to know the charge, right to counsel, right to face and question one’s accusers, and the right to ALL evidence, even that classified for “national security.”

  2. We do love our conspiracies. Back in the day Parliament had a grand conspiracy to “enslave” us … not quite sure to what religious belief I should ascribe that one.

    But the Free Masons and 9/11 … I guess it floats their boat.

  4. I was laboring under the misapprehension, previously, that this discussion was not quite complete. I hadn’t noticed the use of the phrase,
    “WAKE UP,” which is the signature of those who want to put me to sleep.

    I was wrong. I has been used. The discussion now has all of the characteristics of a conversation between competing Napoleon Bonapartes.

    “Who’s the head bull goose loony, around here?”
    -One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  5. These ties to the Bushies, both Midland Bushie and Kenny Bunkport Bushie, are these Yale bow ties or Midland Texas string ties? Inquiring minds want to know.

  6. Scott Supak (@ssupak),

    Good point. I’ve corrected the post.

    If anyone’s interested in the science, the NOVA episode, “Why the Towers Fell” is below:

    1. Why did Bldg 7 collapse at near freefall speed into its own footprint? It was not hit by aircraft and no high rise before or since 911 has ever collapsed symmetrically at near free fall speed into its own footprint! The 911 Commission never addressed this in its final report, or the money trail to Pakistan’s ISI. Most of the evidence from the greatest crime ever committed on American soil was removed and shipped overseas before an investigation could even be conducted. There never would have been a commission had it not been for the Jersey Widows. Vietnam Vet Max Cleland resigned from the 911 Commission in protest due to the White House stonewalling needed documents. It was all controlled from the White House, and like the Warren Commission, it was a cover-up rather than a real investigation. The fact is, that like the lies that led to the illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq (planned before 911), and the mainstream media continues to mind-numb us into oblivion. Instead of being the watchdog investigation government and corporate malfeasance, it has become nothing more than a propaganda ministry. It used computer generated graphics, and “talking head” Generals discussing new weapons technology being used against civilians, while never mentioning the civilian casualties. However, the greatest failure is with the Democrats who gave Bush all he asked for, and when they didn’t he simply took it with a Presidential Directive. We have lost the “checks-and-balances” of the three branches of government. The Judicial (Supreme Court) has shown its true colors with Citizens United, the Legislative with its revolving door and corporate lobbyists who stuff the incumbency with money for their campaign coffers, and the Executive which has been given dictatorial powers since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and now has a murder list that can target anyone (including Americans) anywhere in the world!

  7. Perhaps it was not the “Freemasons,” but certainly it was more than just “Al-Qaeda,” and Osama Bin Laden. Look first at the family ties between Bush and Bin Laden. Then look at the CIA ties to the Mujahedeen, and the database Al Qaeda. Read first Brzezinski’s “The Grand Chessboard,” then PNAC’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” Once you understand the Wolfowitz Doctrine (he, along with Scoter Libby, and Bill Kristol were members of the right wing think tank Project For the New American Century).
    In light of the fact that the JCOS were willing to kill Americans in order to provoke a war with Cuba (Operation Northwoods), one realizes that the Industrial-Military Complex Eisenhower warned us about is willing to go to any length to get its way.
    Everyone was onboard with their initial reaction to 911, because no one had investigated it as a crime scene, However, when Bush started talking about invading Iraq, I and a lot of other people, started to look into this “New Pearl Harbor.” A “False Flag” operation is NOT anathema to those who control our puppet government (the one we see with its smoke and mirrors).
    With the fall of Communism, GHW Bush talked about establishing “A New World Order,” on TV. He stated it would be based upon “Law & Order,” (I believe Hitler also used these phrases after the Reichstag Fire). He also assured us that “they” would succeed! Since 911, several others including British PM’s have also used the phrase “New World Order.”
    Think whatever you will, the fact is that our foreign policy has changed since 911, resulting in preemptive strikes, extraordinary rendition, torture, NDAA, Patriot Acts, summary execution by UAV and JSOC SS assassination teams. Now we are engaged in a never ending war on a new enemy “terrorists.” We now spend more on the Military-Industrial-Espionage-Congressional Complex than any other nation. Probable Cause, Due Process, Search & Seizure Regulations, (Habeas Corpus), and Posse Commitatus has been thrown out the window, along with the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We are militarizing our police force, and civil disobedience (right to assembly for a redress of grievance) is being crushed.

  8. Thanks, Nal,

    You really brought ’em out of the woodwork, today. The Palestinian/Freemason plot is so…pedestrian…compared to the sheer creative genius of our home-grown psychotic truthers.
    Don’t get me wrong. I’m cool with them, as long as they don’t have licenses to drive. A little extra tax money for custodial care (feeding tubes and diapers) is well-worth it.

    Why hasn’t a Sandy Hook conspiracy truther contributed anything, yet?
    Too early to be wearing the aluminum foil hats? I think the placement of the hat is crucial to activation.

  9. Nal,

    The post you linked to in your post came to a conclusion about what the Palestinians said about Hitler — a conclusion that does not seem to logically follow.

    The Palestinian text was quoted as:

    Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law.

    To which the author you linked to attributed this interpretation:

    Hitler was a good man, and it’s a shame that the Nazis lost.

    IMO, that is imagination, not proper interpretation.

    I recall that General Curtis LeMay and Robert McNamara both knew about that reality which the Palestinians were in reference to:

    Robert McNamara: I was on the island of Guam in his [General Curtis LeMays’] command in March 1945. In that single night, we burned to death one hundred thousand Japanese civilians in Tokyo. Men, women and children.

    Interviewer: Were you aware this was going to happen?

    Robert McNamara: Well, I was part of a mechanism that, in a sense, recommended it. [regarding his and Colonel Curtis LeMay’s involvement in the bombing of Japan during World War II] LeMay said if we lost the war that we would have all been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he’s right. He … and I’d say I … were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

    (On The Origin of The Bully Religion – 2). The true interpretation that LeMay, McNamara, and the Palestinian writing was in reference to was that the winners of a war always prosecute war crimes, not the losers.

    The writer you linked to did better on the other issues, except for the ad hominem demonization, and the insufficient “some of my friends are Palestinians” type apologetics.

    The better way to debate an issue like this is to find the flaws in the nexus between their assertion and their evidence.

    Calling such assertions “conspiracy theories” is unavailing because the official government theory is a conspiracy theory.

    Which is: 15 Saudi Arabians along with four others, conspired together to fly four aircraft into American buildings and kill people.

    That the government theory is a conspiracy theory does not ipso facto make it erroneous.

  10. Is the Chairman of The Senate Intelligence Committee a “truther” because he is mad at Bush II for covering up Saudi Government involvement:

    As the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war, Sen. Bob Graham tried to expose what he came to believe were national security coverups and manipulations by the Bush administration. But he discovered that it was hard to reveal a coverup playing by the rules. Much of the evidence the Florida Democrat needed to buttress his arguments was being locked away, he found, under the veil of politically motivated classification.

    Now, as he prepares to retire after 18 years in the Senate, the normally cautious former governor of Florida is unleashing himself in a new book, “Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America’s War on Terror.”

    In his book, Graham asserts that the White House blocked investigations into Saudi Arabian government support for the 9/11 plot, in part because of the Bush family’s close ties to the Saudi royal family and wealthy Saudis like the bin Ladens. Behind the White House’s insistence on classifying 27 pages detailing the Saudi links in a report issued by a joint House-Senate intelligence panel co-chaired by Graham in 2002 lay the desire to hide the administration’s deficiencies and protect its Saudi allies, according to Graham.

    Graham’s allegations — supported by the Republican vice chairman of the House-Senate 9/11 investigation, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, but not his co-chairman, Rep. Porter Goss, Bush’s nominee to become director of the CIA — are not new.

    (Sen. Graham: Bush Covered Up Saudi Involvement In 911, Salon). He would rather tell the truth than be a Liar … that is all (truther v liar).

    Take your pick.

    If what someone said up-thread is true, that Bush II is a Freemason, then the issue is not that a Freemason did it, the issue is that a Freemason ordered it covered up.

  12. As a registered architect with a structures background, I refer you to http://www.ae911truth.org – Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – where it is rendered clear for nearly any sentient being with more than a few neurons to rub together that the towers (plus building 7) were brought down with controlled demolition.

    Until we, as a nation, are willing to expose and accept the truth behind the horrible lie that is 911, we cannot right our country socially, geopolitically or economically.

  17. Dredd,

    I’m having trouble locating the direct link for the Morning Joe video…

  18. “Get over the Pavlovian reactionary trance and look at what was said. It is quite interesting.” -Dredd

    It is indeed. Thanks for referencing the Morning Joe clip, as well as posting the Greenwald excerpt, Dredd. Folks better pay attention. We have tyranny and trouble on the home front, but many find it easier to turn a blind eye.

    http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/14/10672374-new-questions-about-fbi-probe-of-saudis-post-911-exodus?lite

  19. Did the Freemasons do it, or did the Saudi Arabians do it?

    Were the 15 Saudi Arabians named as hijackers by U.S. officials Freemasons?

    If the Saudi Government furnished those hijackers with funds and recruited them, does it matter if any of them were Freemasons or not?

    Isn’t it more important that they were terrorists?

  20. nick spinelli 1, March 23, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    Anyone w/ any intelligence knows the real truth is the Twin Tower collapse and the moon landing were both done w/ Hollywood special effects. So was the 1969 Mets World Series. Geez!
    =================================
    Nick, the question is not how it was done, but who dunnit … it is a gumshoe thingy dood.

    The question is why those that did it in the main (Saudis) were not prosecuted, however, those who did not do it were (Iraqis).

    Got any clues as an intelligent gumshoe?

    Did you watch the Chris Matthews Show (Hardball) and the Joe Scarborough Show (Morning Joe) videos I linked to up-thread.

    No-one disputed that the Saudis were in it up to their necks, but everyone said we did not prosecute them because they have oil.

    Get over the Pavlovian reactionary trance and look at what was said.

    It is quite interesting.

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