An Appeal to the Humanity of Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan

Perhaps Rauf and Daisy don't get to see the missives I receive by the hundreds from Americans suffering from the jihad attack on America. They need to know. They need to understand the pain. If they did, they would never build such a source of pain and grief.

Dear Pamela,

Thank you for the articles you have written about Ground Zero. I was a volunteer dog handler from California. My dog helped recover the remains of those who were murdered on 9/11. We were there for several weeks doing this work. Porkchop and I came home 
different people than we were before we were deployed. Life has been rough for us since that time. I have never been able to get over what I saw and dealt with while I was there. Every day I read or hear about this new project so close to GZ it feels like a hot sword is being plunged through my guts. I do not know what to do here in CA. I have cried every day since 9/11. I am just now starting to get more than two hours of sleep a night. Now that the travesty of this 13 story insult is being rammed down our throats I can look forward to more sleepless nights. When are we going to get my America back? When will the assaults on our freedom and liberty stop? I wish I could write more but I can’t stop the tears long enough to write to you any more today. Thank you for what you do. Keep up the good fight. I hope I get a chance to talk with you some day. Why does my heart hurt so bad?

Erick

Comments

[tiacarolann]

I pray that G-d lifts the burden of this young man.

Psa 18:6 In my distress I called upon יהוה, And to my Elohim I cried; He heard my voice from His Hĕḵal, And my cry went before Him, into His ears.

[Kinneddar]

Erick has perfectly encapsulated the problem of the Ground Zero mosque: it hurts America's heart, and hurts it badly.

[auntie izlam]

People like Erick, who stepped up to the front lines after the disaster and those who witnessed it firsthand will never heal from the trauma if a monument to the perpetrators of the attack is allowed to be built at the site or within 10 miles it.

Erick, I hope that you will be able to find some peace and joy in your life, you certainly have earned it, all the best to you & yours.

[DP111]

An Appeal to the Humanity of Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan

Its worth a try.

[Frank]

Re: An Appeal to the Humanity of Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan

They must occupy the sacred ground near ground zero because "Islam must dominate."
They feel no shame in that.

Muslims should be apologizing for the invasion and destruction of Hindu India's indigenous (and very great) culture after the year 1000, apologize for the illegal occupation of Constantinople, apologize for building a Mosque neat the Temple of Solomon, apologize for building near ground zero etc. Won't happen. No apologies will be forthcoming from Muslims for their crimes anywhere. Face reality.

If the British can apologize for the commercial Empire they built in India (e.g.)-why can't Muslims do the same for the murderous invasions of India, the destruction of Hindu Temples there, the mass murder of Hindus by the Turk invaders in the name of Islam? Again-won't happen. No apologies will be forthcoming from Muslims for their crimes.

Pamela's appeal is useless. Islam's rationalizations for exploitation make Muslims immune from shame. One cannot appeal to the teachings of Jesus in the gospels (e.g) to make them apologize for the atrocities committed in the name of the Koran. They are Muslims.

[lilredbird1]

Pam, you are giving hope and some measure of comfort to good people like Erick. I hope you can post more of those emails. We will think of these people during the coming protests and sit-ins. Americans need to hear again the stories of these responders and volunteers because too many have forgotten.

[Dagny Taggart]

It hurts my heart to read of Erick's pain. Traumatic Stress Syndrome only to be exacerbated by this travesty.

[slice]

Erick, your work and sacrifices are greatly appreciated, indeed esteemed. You may not know this because the individuals who appreciate your work will not ever meet you, most of them. They shall not ever speak with you, and listen to your stories. But I think in general they are aware of you, and in reading this I am sure many hearts are touched.

I know there are tears in my eyes as I think of what you saw and how it haunts you to this day. Many of us have seen difficult things, but not in the extent you have done.

There is something about the decision you made, enlisting your dog, that there is no turning back from. How you continued in the danger and the shock, day after day, during those weeks, is a function of some strength and impulse that is truly the material of sacrifice. Maybe on some days you wish you never had done that. I guess that must be.

All I can say is, you deserve to sleep well and long, and take advantages of all the quiet moments.

[Laurie from Bartlett]

His heart hurts so bad because he is living the reality that lessons were not learned and it is so very frightening.. and the rest of us have been allowed to forget...Thank YOU Pamela for not allowing us to forget..thank you Erick..

[CS Barnett]

Dear Erick,
Thank you, as one American to another.What you did is represent the very best of what it means to be most decent human being and American. May I make a suggestion,
when life presents us with great tragedy, and our souls are seered, we must remember,
that there is another aspect of Life and Living---and that is the beautiful, the good,
and the joy which are,also, an inherent part of Life.It may help to read Viktor Frankel, an analyst, who survived the camps.He created a form of therapy that can help you out of this depression to see a light and a road to travel.Possibly, you can decide what group, or organization, you care to devote some of your time, that promotes and furthers Life, that makes it a better place for yourself and others.If you can get outside of yourself to help others, I promise you, it will help greatly.
If you let this experience continue to overwhelm your life, the Islamofascists will be able to claim another victim, and you don't impress as someone who lacks inner resources and initiative, or would ultimately permit that.Wouldn't poor Porkchop prefer you two work on something to make life better for other people? Maybe, ill children would love and benefit from seeing him, or the Vets in the hospital, or in rehab.Those of us, and I for one, have our undying appreciation for your example and action.You are young, and there are many sunrises and sunsets to see, and rainbows to catch, and great art see and music to hear- or create yourself.You have the gift of time, so please, use it for Beauty, Truth, and Joy.

[Cate]

I can so relate to you, Erick. I feel what you are feeling...literally. I wish we could talk. I went to Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina to help rescue animals. I was there for 2 weeks. So many rescuers were helping the people, but I was so struck by the news footage of the animals that were left in their homes to die. It tore me up to see animals swimming for their lives through the putrid water, trying to make it to a boat, or land, or anything. The story of the little boy who was forced to give up his dog in order to get on a bus to be rescued still haunts me to this day. He was crying hysterically for his dog as the bus drove away. I can't imagine leaving my dogs standing on a highway, left to fend for themselves, and never knowing what happened to them. I still tear up everytime I think about it. What I saw and what I experienced is something I will NEVER forget. I was not emotionally prepared for the death and destruction, and believe me, I saw MUCH of it, and touched MUCH of it. We helped so many animals get a new lease on life, but there were thousands upon thousands that died terrible deaths. Also, I was overwhelmed by the thousands of people who did exactly what I did...they saw what was happening on television and got in their cars and drove hundreds of miles to help. I went back to New Orleans for the first time this spring since Katrina. It was cathartic. Actually, I'm doing better these days, but it took me about 3 years to really get back into my own life again. And every time there's a storm in that area, I feel nausea, sort of like I do right now with the impending hurricane.

[Bronson]

I hope Porkchop is still going Erick, and you too.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the name given by the psychologists and psychiatrists but Disorder is an unfortunate word. Those professionals deal with disorders and so coined the term but Erick's reactions is not a disorder at all. Rather is a perfectly normal reaction to abnormal events. Erick is a perfectly normal human being.

Our brains evolved as threat analysis devices. Without them the puny bodies of human beings would have succumbed to any number of fierce predators or natural hazards. The genetics behind brains that were poor at analyzing threats died out when their bearers were gobbled up or ate poisonous food a second time after a near miss with a predator or food poisoning from plants poisonous to people. The survivors had brains that (1) examined what they had done 'wrong', (2) thought about it until they had figured out what it was, (3) figured what to do next time they were in those circumstances and (4) tested the theory by putting it into practice. If they were wrong then nature took care of things but those who got it right survived and reproduced. The third and fourth steps were very important as they brought what we today call 'closure' which meant the conscious mind was able to relegate the new behaviors to the sub-conscious mind and 'move on', as they also say today.

In nature the replication of the threat meant closure occurred, one way or another. However in cases of traumatic circumstances today that often does not happen because (a) the trauma is caused by the actions of thoughtless, sick or evil people and (b) it usually, thankfully, does not repeat. The first aspect means the conscious mind cannot figure out what it did wrong. It did not, it did the correct thing. The second aspect means that even if one eventually comes to a tentative hypothesis that with hindsight one might have done something differently to have avoided or lessened the trauma there is no chance to test that theory so as to achieve final closure. So the ongoing post traumatic stress analysis continues.

It is aggravated always by officials who find that the easiest way to handle these human caused disasters, as they say these days, is to blame the victim and never the perpetrator. People harassed and bullied at work experience this 'blame the victim' all the time even in corporations with policies that purport to proclaim zero tolerance for the behaviors. Writ large in responses to 9/11, starting with the Bush declaration that Islam is a peaceful 'religion', this pattern has emerged on a national scale. Obama's disgraceful eulogy at Ft Hood is an example. Mayor Bloomberg's acceptance of the need to go along with the mosque and cultural center is another.

There is no logical way out for Erick while this reprehensible behavior from the 'authorities' continues. The conscious mind was suited to analyzing neutral threats in nature, not man made threats in the world aided and abetted by those whose duty is to protect the nation against the threats. Erick, one must look for a way out in the life that is in your body and heart, and in Porkchop's too, not that the emotions will ever be forgotten but hopefully the pain may ease.

[lilredbird1]

We are all suffering this trauma to some degree because of the failure on the part of those whose job description includes keeping us safe from attack by hostile forces. Erick had the terrible experience of seeing the human toll in a very immeidate way including sights that have haunted him ever since. We have all had the experience of hearing the actions of the perpetrators marginalized by denial of their motives ("Islam means peace"), the victims blamed ("America's foreign policy", "little Eichmans"), and aggression by the perps' allies expanded with little opposition, even outright denial, from our "leaders". So we have had to take on a disproportionate part of that job ourselves, often at the cost of considerable time and resources taken from our lives and increased anxiety as the danger grows, the response remains misguided and inadequate, and our own politicians give aid and comfort to the enemy.

[Dave]

If your looking for compassion or humanity to Kuffars your dropping your bucket down a dry well.

Sorry but it needed to be said, no pleas, no dialogue, is going to work. It didn't
work in 1783 and it won't work now.

[lilredbird1]

Great off-the-cuff commentary by Leonard Peikoff on the GZ mosque posted over at The Dugout.

[Alert]

White House has sole out American borders, security and safety for votes and money. Instead of going after the 9/11 terrorists, US 9/11 POTUS, talked down Americans on 9/17, from an Islamic Center: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZoroJdVnA and that was ust the begining. This shameful lecturing hurting Americans was followed by:
- Covering pages on Saudi Arabia from 9/11 Interim Report.
- Doubling... yes, doubling the very visas abused by 9/11 terrorists.
- Cook-up fictitious against Saudi Arabia's worst enemy, Iraq.
.. to name a few
Ironically, Americans re-elected this Saudi puppet, digging their own grave. Incientally, this same 9/11 POTUS granted immunity to his Mexican drug-dealing amigo while prosecuting border-patrol agents.
Ofcourse, Clinton did his selling out to Islam, while Barak 'God D**n America' Obama all but groveled at the feet of Islam.
Americans have been sleeping on 9/11 Ground Zero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg

[Barb Chansky]

Eric, G-d bless you and grant you peace!

Pamela, with all due respect, what appeal? To who's humanity? These hyenas have no humanity and no compassion; they are bunch of lying murderers, and they are enjoying our suffering! Fighting them tooth and nail is the only option

[Denise]

Erick & Porkchop,
Thanks for your sacrifice. Grief is hard to deal with and sometimes it can just come out of no where on us after a death or tragedy. There is evil in this world there is no getting around that. But what you feel inside is what God feels - deeply saddened and greived by the horrific pain others cause. God can heal your pain just draw near to Him. He will carry you. There is nothing He can't get you through. Nothing.
I know what the Word of God says and vengence is His. Those who did this will recieve justice a justice that may be unseen as of yet. Again thank you for giving of yourself for others.

[Sulaiman Rahman]

"Muslims should be apologizing for the invasion and destruction of Hindu India's indigenous (and very great) culture after the year 1000.. Frank"

Hindu culture great? Ever hear of the caste system? The penalty for a "lower cast" drinking from the same well used by a Brahmin, was death. The untouchables and the buddhists couldn't eat the same food, live in the same area..When an upper caste member walked before them, they were meant to kneel before them. Where the Brahmins were destined to be the wealthy priests and businessmen, people of the lower castes were restricted to jobs like cleaning sewage. Muslims should apologize? Many of the Muslims of India were formerly people of these lower castes who were drawn to a religion that made all people equal before the eyes of God.

To quote Muhammad:
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

Not to mention that women had absolutely no rights under Hinduism - a Hindu widow was obliged to either kill herself or give herself to seclusion and isolation away from society and wear sack cloth after her husband died.

[ART]

Sulaiman Rahman, we have no problem with Hindus and if they behaved as you described SO WHAT ? We don't see Hindus kill kafirs, unlike your satanic cult called islam has been killing kafirs and non-kafirs alike since your pedophiliac sadist mohamed (piss n shit upon him) invent this barbaric cult 1400 years ago. So get lost to your cave ! you belong with your sub-human brethren not in civilised society.You GOT IT ?

[Oi]

Uh Sulaiman, the fine sounding first sentence in the paragraph from Mr Mohammed's last sermon doesn't sit well with the Arab treatment of blacks since the time of Mohammed as witnessed by their long history of brutality and enslavement and continuing even today in the black Muslim populations in Dafur etc, nor with Allah's declaration that Arabs are the best of people, nor with the theoretical requirement that the caliph, i.e. the head of the Muslim brotherhood of which you speak, should be Arab and indeed of Mr Mohammed's tribe. Sounds like you better get over to Dafur real quick and sort out the Arabs there before lecturing New Yorkers. Your quoting the second sentence is typical taqiyya in the context of this thread about Erick, and might I suggest doing so displays the same Islamic sensitivity, that sensitivity we hear so much of, as shown by the imam and his wife. That sentence says nothing about people who choose not to submit to your theocracy and tribal mores so the teaching and practice of Mr Mohammed's attitude towards them stood at his deathbed and stands today - kill them and keep killing them until they grovel like Obama or until they are no more. However even people who do submit keep being killed for this is the life of Islam, as per the same example of those Muslims in Dafur who happen to have God given black skin, just like the ancestors of all humans.

[Frank]

Sulaiman Rahman-

Huindu India was a wealthy and great civilization before the Muslim invasions after 1000.

The Hindus never attacked Muslims. What was the justification for the attack on Hindu India? Muslims had no business in Hindu India. It is/was their culture.

The British have apologized for less criminality in India than committed by Muslims. Why don't Muslims apologize for their crimes in invading Hindu India?

It is because Muslims rationalize their exploitation of all Dhimmis, their mass murders in Hindu India, their building of a mosque near the Temple Mount of the Jews, their illegal occupation of Constantinople, their mass murder of the Armenians etc...The self-righteous blood stained Muslim beat goes on...only others must apologize. Only Dhimmis are guilty. Right?

Muslims are incapable of shame. Their rationalization for dominance, for oppression of the Dhimmi, their immunity from shame, is their "religion."

Have you no shame for the crimes committed in the name of Islam? Why not admit your criminality and join the British (e.g.) etc. in the apology for the harm done by Muslims to "indigenous cultures"? Start with Hindu India's indigenous culture.

Even in the matter of the slavery of black Africans there are no apologies from Muslims. Only Dhimmis are guilty. Right? Point fingers at British, Americans, Jews, Armenians etc.......What about the crimes of Muslims?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY&feature=related

[Gary Bovey]

Pamela,

The following is the link to the Bellevue, Washington, Reporter, which published in the last few days an article concerning supposed dog feces being smeared on a van in front of a mosque. cair is asking that this be investigated as a "hate crime". The reason the article attached to the link concerns Bellevue business, is because the feces article was closed to comments in the brief time it took to acquire 4 postings. I personally believe it is a typical response such as when the subject is islam, or muslims. Other postings on subjects of different topical matters are yet able to be comment after days longer, and indeed, considerably longer periods of time.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/bel/news/97031639.html

The mosque in New York at the 911 site is ananthema.

God Bless you Pamela, for your efforts in informing a confused, unknowing, and indifferent public, of the very real danger that the increasing islamization of America poses. It may yet be too late.

[Frank]

Sulaiman Rahman-

It was their Hindu culture. The caste system was their business. Is that not so?
I guess you think that the invasion of Hindu India by the Muslims and the Muslim mass murders there was a liberation. Really?

I think Muslims should apologize for building a mosque near the Temple Mount of the Jews. Don't you think Muslims should apologize for that? Why did they build a mosque on Jewish Holy ground? Why do Muslims do such things?

Muslims should do "outreach" with the Jewish people and dismantle their illegal mosque on Jewish Holy ground. Don't you think so?

If British, Americans, etc. apologize for crimes against others, why don't Muslims apologize for their crimes? Are only Muslims innocent of crimes against "indigenous cultures"?

Really?

[poetcomic1]

Build your mosques, push your sharia, lie and lie, cover the the whole earth with fear and barbarsim as you moan and groan about your 'sensitivities'. More and more. Go the limit. What a payback is coming.

[Gary Bovey]

@ Sulaiman Rahman,

"Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim".

Sulaiman,what if we are speaking about someone who is not a " fellow muslim "? It seems to me that a double standard exists as supported by islamic text, and utterances, i.e. if one is not muslim, than they indeed are inferior and their right to possessions and liberty are debatable and at the least questionable.

I will not belabor the practices of culture as offensive as they may be, the caste system, or otherwise. There is a light which enlightens everyman. The difficulty faced by too many in this world, is not whether there be one god or not, but the billions of us who are indeed little gods and totally ignorant of the proscriptions of the Creator of all.

Bloody hands find no refuge in religion.

The Judge of all the earth shall do right.

[Frank]

Most folks see the above photo and know how the guy feels. For most Dhimmis, life is a series of dogs.

Muslims consider dogs to be unclean. A Muslim sees a Dhimmi and his dog (as in the above photo) and considers them about equal in terms of their value in his/her eyes. As Edmund Blake said: "The mind that alters, alters all."

Muslims need a 12 step program to overcome their supremacist preceptions re Dhimmis and their dogs; after they complete the 12 step program re Islam, they might mind their business about Dhimmis having dogs, or even get a dog as a pet for themselves.