We Forgot

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25 years ago today, a few hours after the terror attacks, President Bush 43 gave a short video address to the nation, which was recorded at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Bush said, "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." While the American people believed it that day, many our elected leaders never did, and many more don't now. A generation later, we've forgotten.

Six days later, at the Islamic Center of Washington, Bush, surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood operatives, said, "The face of terror is not Islam. Islam is peace." And thus, the capitulation began.

Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, there have been 66,872 Islamic terror attacks worldwide, resulting in about 250,000 deaths. In 2021, a study by Brown University estimated the cost of the "War on Terror" at approximately $8 trillion, and the cost of life at 900,000 deaths. Obviously much of that $8 trillion was deficit spending that we are still paying interest on today, and I bet many of you know somebody who was killed or injured in Afghanistan or Iraq. One of Usama bin Laden's stated goals of the terror attack was to "bleed American into bankruptcy" by dragging us into costly, long-term military quagmires in the Middle East.

On September 11, 2001, there were 1209 Mosques in the United States. Today that number is estimated to be in excess of 2800.

On September 11, 2001, there were no Muslims holding elected state or federal office in the United States. Today there are 50, of which 5 are in the House of Representatives. And that doesn't count the number of local office holders who are Muslim, including the Mayor of New York, our nation's largest city, and it's financial and media hub. 25 years ago, that seemed inconceivable, even before the 9/11 attacks. Now it is reality.

CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land terror financing trial, has identified 12 states as priority for this election cycle: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida.

Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the architect of 9/11, told CIA interrogator James Mitchell that Al Qaeda didn't need another plane to hit a tower, that Islam would conquer America by using our kindness against us, our immigration, our welfare, our rights, our churches, our media, our academicians, and our decency. He characterized them as a gift from Allah.

Today, at the 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, the whole world saw a split screen of Zohran Mamdani and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez laughing and mucking it up while the families of the 9/11 victims wept. Their actions speak louder than any words.

We as a nation have slowly capitulated to Islam, beginning with Bush's ill-conceived remarks on September 17, 2001, through the election of Zohran Mamdani, and continuing as we speak. PolyMarket has tabbed Abdul El-Sayed as having a 67% chance of being elected to the US Senate from Michigan, where Hamtramck, formerly one of centers of Polish-American culture in the US as late as the 1990's, is now 70% Muslim of which 40% is foreign born. We have ignored the repeated warnings, and through our suicidal empathy, have lit the fuse of a movement to facilitate the Muslim takeover of this country. Islam has a 1500-year history of conquest. America is the brass ring, the ultimate, the apex. That's their passe-partout, the skeleton key that unlocks the rest of the world, and they know it.

Zohran Mamdani's father, Mahmood, a professor at Columbia University, wrote a book titled "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror." In it, he wrote the following: "We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier. Does not the suicide bomber join both aspects of our humanity, particularly as it has been fashioned by political modernity, in that WE are willing to subordinate life- both OUR own and that of others- to objectives WE consider higher than life? Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism."

That's the mayor of our largest city's father, a political science professor at a prestigious American university, using the terms "we" and "our" in attempting to justify suicide bombing in the name of jihad as the moral equivalent to justified military and police action. The words could not be any clearer.

Islam in its practice is both a religion and a political ideology. At the nexus of those is conquest, violence, and subjugation. That nexus is the constant of Islam for 1500 years, and now, in the last generation, it has reached our shores, infiltrated our nation, and we are largely blind to it. The democrat party and many young Americans have embraced it, as one would pet a rattlesnake.

Mohammed Atta, the man who hijacked and flew American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, from the Captain's seat, said to the passengers of the doomed plane, "Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet."

That is Islam's instruction to us. Do not move. Everything will be okay. Just stay quiet. Do not identify the ideology. Do not call it what it is. Do not speak out. Do not resist. Just stay quiet.

The passengers on Flight 11 were blind to what was happening, so they followed Atta's instructions, and the north tower fell. Islam won.

Contrast that to Flight 93. The passengers on that plane had heard what had occurred at the World Trade Center and they banded together against the hijackers and fought back. Knowing they were facing certain death, they acted nevertheless. They didn't listen to their enemies, they fought, and they saved countless American lives in Washington DC. America won.

25 years later, that's the lesson from 9/11. If we do not move, if we choose inaction, if we stay quiet, if we quietly watch, if we embrace Islam as anything other than what it really is, we will lose. If we call Islam what it is, refuse to capitulate, value our way of life, value our method of government, value our culture, and most of all be prepared and willing to fight for it regardless of the odds, we will win.

That's the best way we can honor the 2977 victims of 9/11 and the casualties of the "war on terror" is to never stay quiet, never stay still, and most of all never forget.

Everybody ready? Let's roll.