by Jerry Gordon, Red County, August 27, 2010

Several Months ago in Tallahasee, Florida, I heard David Beamer, father of the late Todd Beamer, a hero  of Flight 93. His comments then were compelling, engrossing and disturbing. It takes a lot of courage for David to even speak about the threat of Islamic Jihad that took the lives of his son, depriving both he and his wife, Todd's widow and children of a loving father. Multiply that by three thousand more dead murdered at the hands of what David Beamer called "good Muslims." They followed the 'way of Allah" and commited Jihad on all of us in America on 9/11; what I called "the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century" that I witnessed that brilliant late summer day, nine years ago. 

Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere in the ummah danced with joy, throwing candy at children, while we in sorrow buried what remains existed of our honored dead. Now, we have a proposed 13 story edifice in nearby Park Place that David Beamer believes will be a memorial to 15 of the 9/11 educated young Yemenis, Egyptians and Saudis who murdered 3000 innocents including his son Todd.  But Todd Beamer and fellow passengers on Flight 93 took action. With the cry of "Let's Roll,"  he and fellow passengers revolted and valiantly succeeded in attacking the remaining four Jihadis causing the crash in a field in Southeastern Pennsylvania instead of one of two intended targets, either The White House or the US Capitol Building.
 
David Beamer extended a hand to me, my colleague Nonie Darwish of Former Muslims United and Rabbi Jon Hausman that day when we spoke in opposition to Florida Muslim Capitol Day at a Florida Security Council sponsored event in Tallahassee this past March.  He thought we were courageous for doing what we could to enlighten Americans about dangers from Muslim Brotherhood fronts seeking to supplant our Constitution with Sharia.
 
Watch David Beamer articulate in this You Tube Video what we believe are concerns  of increasing numbers of Americans about what's behind the Ground Zero Mosque and nearly a dozen other mega-mosque 'projects' that have erupted across  this country from lower Manhattan to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Temecula, California.  With November 2nd not far off, perhaps David Beamer's comments will spur you to vote for candidates who will push back against the stealth strategy of a Grand Jihad. A Grand Jihad that aims to bring America to its knees under the domination of an Islamic Sharia state.