From Fox News.
[NY Times public editor Margaret] Sullivan wondered if [the paper’s coverage] was enough. She noted that on the 10th anniversary of one of America’s darkest days, the Times published “an ambitious special section, along with major stories on the days leading up to the anniversary.”
But what Sullivan dubbed “anniversary journalism” often finds little to cover outside of related local events, she said.
“There isn’t always much to say that is original,” Sullivan wrote.
And speaking of radical Islam (see this post), this story is both troubling and sad, although fairly typical of the modern secularist and the politically correct crowd, of which the NY Times is part and parcel (you’ll search long and hard to find any of the mainstream media publishing a story like this). Sullivan misses the point entirely. You don’t have to say anything original. You cover the anniversary because we dare not forget that unspeakable evil still is a very real threat. We are a forgetful people and we must be on guard even as we pray for God’s Kingdom to come on earth as in heaven.
You do not deal with evil by burying your head in the sand or denying it does not exist. If you are a Christian, you deal with evil by taking up your cross each day and bringing the love of Christ to bear on his sin-sick and desperate world. And you work to see that your duly appointed government seeks to see that justice is accomplished.
9/11 is a stark reminder that all of our scientific advancements and so-called progress still haven’t eradicated radical evil and it never will. In fact, if anything, our technology has made it easier for evil to be perpetrated. For it is out of the heart that all kinds of evil come and the forces of evil are only to happy to encourage the process. Sadly, without the love of Christ to transform our hearts, evil needs little help in its effort to bring forth its work from our hearts. That has nothing to do with materialism and/or science. It has everything to do with the transforming love of God in Christ.