Turn of events

Updated,

4.17.19:

Seems to me that people were denying that there was celebrations of 9/11 at that time.  Just to be on the record, here is evidence that there are celebrations of the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

I want to be able to point to this record if that time comes.  Of course, we have a president these days who doesn't shy away from remembering what happened on 9/11/2001.  Unfortunately, there are those, in the GOP, who would rather forget.  ( but I don't have a link to that, drat it. )  Now you know, if you didn't know already, what is wrong with these never Trumpers.

4.16.19:

early in day:

It has been in the news that one of the new female Muslim congress critters said that "some people did something" on 9/11/01.  To which Trump responded, and now there is an attempt to make her into some type of victim.

Along comes the fire at the Notre Dame in Paris, and here we are.  What to make of this?

Since 9/11 got mentioned, I'd would like to share what I remember about that date.  It was something that I remember hearing been said about it at that time.  What it was is this:  the Muslims see that we don't defend our culture.  The 9/11 terrorist attack is seen as a result of our failure to defend our own culture.  It is seen by these people, and they see it as weakness, and it encourages attacks.

The 9/11 attacks and this fire may well be linked, then.

Why?

Notre Dame is fully a part of Western Culture.  It is an important symbol, like the Twin Towers were, and the Pentagon.  Therefore, it is attacked for its symbolic value.  If you are going to defend the culture, you cannot allow the symbols of that culture to be attacked with impunity.  But that happens over and over again in our culture.  The attack doesn't have to come from the outside.  It also comes from the inside.

This is ample reason to believe that the failure to defend our own culture within is being used by own enemies on the outside to attack us on our inside.

The words of Ilhan Omar ( if I got the name right ) is worthy of the most stringent criticism.  It only encourages the likes who attacked on 9/11 to keep attacking because they think that this will eventually bring down our culture.  They may be right.

We should be very careful about how we deal with dissent in our country.  Much of the dissent seems to be directed in very destructive ways.  We may be encouraging worse attacks in the future.

Update:

1 pm:

Some of the jihadis are celebrating.  It is noted here so that it won't be forgotten, or denied.