“Make Some Noise”

Our friend Eitan Chitayat wants you to make some noise, y'all.

His latest piece is about a friend of his, Bill Weems, who was a passenger on one of the planes that smashed into the Twin Towers on 9/11.  Prior to that horrible day, Eitan and Bill discussed terrorism and the constant threats by Hamas facing Israel.  And Bill spoke about how "utterly far America felt from it to him – and that it was too surreal. The notion of terrorism to him felt so distant."

Eitan wrote,

It pains me, but the distinct memory I have of him is whenever I said America couldn’t possibly stay isolated from it for long. That the world would feel what we were feeling too because terrorism has no borders. No mercy. It doesn’t discriminate. Not even amongst those it supposedly fights for. He just couldn’t imagine it, and I hoped he would never have to.

Unfortunately, we all know better now.  Terror has come to us.  Not just on 9/11, but in every instance that Americans or our allies are killed by Islamic radicals.

And as Eitan points out, terrorists benefit from our idealism. He wrote,

They’re content that most ordinary people still have their idealistic heads in the sand. They’re content that most people don’t believe that their perverted outlook on life truly exists and could come back (once again) and bite the civilized world in the ass. Content that they get to behead an innocent foreign journalist on camera and post it and watch it spread on YouTube and Twitter. Content that they can cruify non-believers, hang gay men in city squares and stone women to death with no consequence.

They’re content that people the world over are continuing like everything is normal and that this is all just someone else’s problem. That we, the world’s citizens, aren’t employing all our influence to do what we can all individually do to help our leaders crush them into the ground.

He closed his column with this final thought:

Their killing is far from over, everyone. But the world’s collective silence is still deafening.

Make some noise.

Even when we feel helpless, when we feel weak and defeated and hopeless about the evil that exists in the world, we must stay vigilant, stay prepared, stay faithful.  And we must stay loud.  Because apathy is another weapon that evil can use against us.

I'm going to keep making noise.  I would have written this entire post in ALL CAPS if I didn't know how annoying it would be to read, only to feel like I was being louder. 

ISIS is aligning itself with anti-Israeli groups.  Look at this video, taking place in a London tunnel.  Radicals there blocked traffic a few weeks ago to show support for the Palestinians in Gaza.  An ISIS flag is seen. How much infiltration of civilized societies do radical Islamists have to do, exactly, before bleeding heart liberals pull their heads out of their backsides and realize that there is no longer any such thing as a melting pot or assimilation or integration?  Islamists aren't interested in that.  They want to infiltrate.  Dominate.  Eliminate.

Follow Eitan on Twitter @eitanchitayat or on Facebook right here.  Forward Eitan's column to everyone you know.  Encourage them to make some noise.