9/11

September 11 is not a day for vague emotional uplift. It is not a seminar on American foreign policy. It is not an occasion to distort a massacre into “differences with the United States.” It is the anniversary of a morning when Islamist terrorists murdered nearly three thousand people on American soil.

Calls to unite Americans and “do a good deed” to honor those murdered by these terrorists are fine if they come with a clear account of who attacked this country, why they did it, and a hard commitment that it must never happen again.

In order to prevent another 9/11, the only policy the American government needed to pursue was closing down the borders and never allowing Third-Worlders into the country again. Politicians not only refused to do that, but actually did the opposite.

Instead, Americans got stuck with a mass surveillance state, two forever wars, the importation of countless Third-Worlders, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which to date has never stopped a terror attack, but has made Americans’ travel experience miserable. Americans, in other words, got a major reshuffling of their constitutional rights in favor of government power, and a homeland that quickly became unrecognizable.

3,000 burned and buried. 41 never found.

A lot of this country still pretends 9/11 was a misunderstanding.

Islam is not a religion of peace.

That lie should have died on September 11.

They forgot.
I didn’t.
#911 #NeverForget #September11 #GroundZero #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/CW2rUJP82Z

— GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE (@GOP_is_Gutless) September 11, 2026

The media narrative has been set in stone for years: the real victims of 9/11 were Muslims in the U.S., who for a quarter-century now have suffered from unreasonable suspicion, hatred, harassment, discrimination and worse at the hands of racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” And yet in reality, if Osama bin Laden and Mohamed Atta were alive today, they would look at what is happening in the United States with a deep sense of satisfaction.

September 11, 2026, marks 25 years since al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.

A generation of students has grown up with no memory of that day. What they understand about it depends on what we choose to teach them. Judging by some of the materials available, Americans should be concerned.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was aware at least two years before the 9/11 attacks that al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden hoped to commit a hijacking plane attack. Yet on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaida did just that, both the government and military seemed utterly unprepared.

The tragic events of 9/11 were caused when 19 Islamic terrorists boarded four commercial aircraft and flew them toward targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. Two planes hit the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, causing the towers and three surrounding buildings to collapse, one plane struck the Pentagon, and the fourth was driven by the hijackers into a rural Pennsylvania field after its passengers fought back.

Twenty-five years later, however, thousands of Americans still don’t believe that’s the whole story.

A poll carried out by prominent British Muslim news site 5Pillars has found that 62% of its readers believe Israel was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. According to the survey, published ahead of today’s 25th anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks against the United States which killed almost 3,000 people, only 3% of the publication’s audience think that the terrorist group was solely responsible. Over a quarter (26%) responded that 9/11 an “inside job” carried out by the US government.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, speculation still remains over who was actually behind the attacks.

A 5Pillars poll asking our audience who they believe was responsible found that 62% pointed to Israel, while just 3% attributed sole responsibility to Al Qaeda. A further 26%… pic.twitter.com/4rfmBM3Hrj

— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) September 11, 2026

I was getting ready for work when news broke of the first plane. A colleague and I were heading for a meeting at Vancouver’s airport.

By the time we got turned around the airport was in chaos. Black SUV’s, parked aircraft and a flood of exiting travelers.

Kathy and I caught up with each later that day. 10 years later we would attend the 911 anniversary in New York.

We will not forget Islam and its Quislings.

We will not forget those who lost their lives.

I was glad to see that journalist John Miller published a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week reminding Americans of a miniseries that “some want us to forget,” as he put it. That show was the extraordinary and controversial The Path to 9/11, an ABC miniseries written and produced by writer/director Cyrus Nowrasteh*.

Imagine if you had told someone on 11 September 2001 that in 25 years’ time the streets of New York City would ring out with sympathy for Islamofascism. Imagine if you had said to one of the startled souls watching American lives be incinerated by Islamist filth that one day the West would swarm with youths cosplaying as Islamist filth. Imagine if you had said that in a mere quarter of a century even our leafiest campuses would be awash with jihad chic, with silver-spoon students gushing over an Islamo-army (Hamas) every bit as hateful and medieval as the one that burnt New Yorkers alive.

The transcript is available here.

In August 2001, I was fresh out of college, living with four roommates in a converted TriBeCa loft that offered a panoramic view of lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center, standing proudly just eight blocks away.

I found the apartment on Church and Chambers Streets through dumb luck. A friend of my brother’s was moving out and needed someone to take her place to live with four very cool and attractive women who would be moving out just weeks after she did.

The director general of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 has warned while Al-Qaeda’s power to attack the West has been all but erased in the years since 9/11, the overall threat picture is now worse than in 2001 between new and innovative terror networks, lone wolf attackers, and state-sponsored terrorism.

Hmmm

Gallup Poll: Proud to be an American?

2001:
Republicans: 90%
Democrats : 85%

2026:
Republicans: 93%
Democrats: 27%

The Democrat Party has increasingly become un-American. pic.twitter.com/mTU9oyLwAt

— America (@america) September 8, 2026