If anyone else had said this, he would be excoriated as a racist, but as Assim al-Hakeem is a Muslim, no one will mind. Meanwhile, Mohamed Atta was not illiterate; he was studying at the Hamburg University of Technology. The others weren’t illiterate, either. Al-Hakeem is denigrating his fellow Muslims in order to try to increase the separation between Islam and this supreme act of mass murder. Yet the hijackers were clearly animated by Islamic teachings and assumptions.
Original video:
MEMRI excerpt:
“Saudi Islamic Scholar Assim Al-Hakeem: 9/11 Was Fabricated — You Cannot Expect Me To Believe That A Bunch Of Illiterate Arabs Could Fly Planes So Precisely; This Was An ‘Orchestrated Demolition,'” MEMRI, August 2, 2023:
Saudi Islamic scholar Assim Al-Hakeem said in an interview with Indonesian podcaster Dondy Tan that the 9/11 attacks were “fabricated” and that it was impossible for “a bunch of illiterate Arabs” to have successfully piloted the planes into the towers, since this is a difficult task even for professional pilots. Rather, he said that the attack was an “orchestrated demolition” that involved timed explosions. He dismissed Tan’s suggestion that 3,000 Jews had not showed up to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11 as a “conspiracy theory,” and he said that he does not base his knowledge on “hearsay.” The interview was uploaded to Dondy Tan’s YouTube channel with Indonesian subtitles on July 29, 2023, and an edited clip of the interview was posted on Assim Al-Hakeem’s official YouTube channel on August 2, 2023.
Assim Al-Hakeem: “[When] 9/11 took place, I said live in CNN and on other channels that this was fabricated. You do not expect me to believe that a bunch of illiterate Arabs, who don’t know how to speak English, would be able to fly a jetliner and maneuver between skyscrapers, in a naval or air force approach, and then strike twice without missing these two buildings, when they can’t even fly a normal private single-propeller plane.
“I personally asked two of the royal pilots with experience of over 30 years: ‘Can you, as experienced [Boeing] 747 pilots do this?’ They said to me: ‘We tried this last week on a simulator. We set the settings and the instruments exactly the same time as the Twin Towers and my brother here, the captain, we tried and we missed three times.”
Interviewer: “From how many trials?”
Al-Hakeem: “Three times, they tried.”
Interviewer: “They tried three times, and then…”
Al-Hakeem: “And the fourth time, they made it.”
Interviewer: “Oh, I see.”
Al-Hakeem: “So these are experienced pilots. So if you tell me that this was staged, I would say: 100%. But look what happened, everyone would expect that people would hate Islam, would reject Islam, [but] on the contrary, in the first week, 35,000 accepted Islam in America.”
Interviewer: “Yes, yes…”
Al-Hakeem: “Because of what? This is in Alah’s [sic] hands. This is Allah’s way of guiding people to Islam. So, we do what we do, but Allah – at the end of the day – does what He does.”
Interviewer: “I read somewhere, that on that day, 3,000 Jews did not go to work [at the WTC].”
Al-Hakeem: “This is a conspiracy theory. I don’t base my knowledge or my thoughts on hearsay. I base it on facts. These are two pilots that I know personally, who said, we’ve tried it three times and missed. These are logical things, if you have a skyscraper, and you hit the top, the bottom would not collapse, it would melt, it would bend – but to go down like an orchestrated demolition… This means that you can see that this has been staged.”
Interviewer: “Something exploded below.”
Al-Hakeem: “On [the same] timing.”
FYI says
The ‘scholar’ of islam…is like a square tire salesman.
If allah confirms the TORAH and claims he gave it to Moses[koran 2;87}how did he miss the ENTIRE law system that was in the Torah?
Can you explain how allah can claim to be omniscient and yet prove he is NOT omniscient in koran 5:116?
Do explain to us why non-muslims are ‘the Worst of created beings’ koran 98:6?
“This is in allah’s hands’ says assim al-hakeem:is that allah’s TWO RIGHT HANDS?
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FYI says
That koran..allah’s prefect book,the holey koran
What islamic ‘scholars’ want you to think.[the truth in brackets}
There are no mistakes in the koran{except for all the mistakes in the koran}
The koran has been perfectly preserved{except when it wasn’t perfectly preserved}
The koran is full of scientific miracles{except there are no scientific miracles in the koran}
The koran makes sense{except when it makes no sense}
allah knows all things{except for all the things allah doesn’t know;Astronomy,Biology,christian Theolooy etc}
If anyone thinks there is Science in the koran i will show you a passage from Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings where Gandalf clearly shows an amazing understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics…
If any islamic scholar would check the sources{Bible} via Koran 10:94..they would see then that the koran is false.
Samer says
And I say: “You want me to believe that the administration of President Bush Jr., which was inspired by the theories of the neoconservative group, had no involvement in facilitating the implementation of terrorist operations inside America, in order to use it as an excuse to wage a foreign war.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As far as 9/11 went, no! Best proof of that for a muslim audience was not the 9/11 report, but rather Osama gloating about the attack days after it happened on his favorite outlet al Jazeera
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Since the reasons we turned a blind eye on the Saudi involvement are no longer valid, it’s probably time to revisit our relations, as well as their role in this attack
Historically, the main reasons for the US pandering to the Saudis, despite their awful record in promoting dawa & jihad worldwide (prior to MbS becoming the de-facto ruler) was
➤ Saudi Arabia controlled the global price of oil, & saw to it that the US got whatever prices it wanted, sabotaging OPEC agreements that may have gone the other way. Essentially, control of the world’s energy was something that was important to us: as Rush Limbaugh would note, oil is the fuel of global capitalist economies
➤ Saudi Arabia also ensured that the US dollar was the world’s reserve currency. Countries could only buy Saudi oil using the US dollar. As a result, all countries stockpiled as much of it as they could, and that’s why the US dollar retained its value, despite all our debt and money printing we have been doing
➤ They were also one of our biggest customers of military hardware. When Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, one of the reasons President Trump gave for not doing anything against Riyadh was that they had outstanding orders of $0.5 billion of military equipment, which was nothing to sneeze at
However, none of these above considerations are valid any more
➤ The fracking revolution in the last few years, as well as opening up all the oil production in Alaska, showed us that we’re capable of being the world’s largest oil producer, competing w/ both the Saudis & the Russians, & being not only self-sufficient but also assuring the energy security of our allies – both European and Indo-Pacific. While it’s true that Biden has shut all that down, a future GOP POTUS can revive that again, & this time maybe make that permanent by releasing all that federal land from the government in the first place. In other words, Saudi Arabia no longer controls the global energy market if we were in full throttle as far as energy production went
➤ Following the way it was snubbed by the Biden administration, Saudi Arabia has stopped protecting the US dollar and now accepts the Chinese Renminbi for oil sales, which is major. Also, Western sanctions on Russia saw not just Russia, but a lot of countries just stop dealing in Western currencies and work out different arrangements. Bottom line: even if the Saudis reverted to the dollar, that horse has bolted: countries that have designed alternative methods of commerce are not gonna revert to hoarding a currency whose value keeps depreciating. In other words, Saudi Arabia is no longer doing (and can no longer do, even if they wanted to) anything to keep the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency
➤ Biden, or rather his handlers, did think that $0.5 billion in arms sales was something to sneeze at, so they sneezed at it and cancelled the transaction. Since then, the Saudis would have explored other suppliers like Russia & China: unlike Israel, they’re not constrained for allies on the other side
Given all these new ground realities, as well as the fact that the Saudis are now allied to China (& have signed an agreement w/ Iran under Beijing’s auspices) as well as to Russia, whom they support on the Ukraine issue, it’s worth taking a
secondfirst look at➤ The extent to which parts of the then Saudi government was involved in those 9/11 attacks
➤ Holding them financially liable to the families of the 9/11 dead & injured
In other words, finally holding them accountable for whatever role they played in that attack, & giving some closure to 9/11 families who have been fighting this battle against them ever since, while being let down by every POTUS – Bush, Obama, Biden and even Trump!
Wellington says
Yes, Infidel, even Trump, great man that he is, doesn’t “get” Islam.
This is where mankind is at in our era and it is not a sound place to be. As you have indicated many times, Modi is yet another “problem” in comprehending just how inimical Islam is to civilization.
The world is out of joint and Islam prospers by this. It shouldn’t but it does. I fear much darkness ahead until Islam is accurately described as Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell, among so many others, accurately described it. But then accuracy in this foolish era we live in is a very scarce commodity nowadays. Damn.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think Trump partly got islam, which is why he discontinued Iftar & Ramadan celebrations in the White House. But somehow, he dissociated the Saudis w/ it, and to be fair to him, MbS has been less islamic than his predecessors, including his father
Also, like I noted in my post in the thread of Robert’s interview by Doc Washburn, I think that anti-islamic sentiments are more welcome in the America-First movement, rather than the mainstream conservative movement. Although as far as the leaders of it go, it would be nice to know where both DeSantis and Ramaswamy stand on the questions of not just jihad (which both of them presumably oppose) but also shariah supremacy and islamization. I haven’t heard either of them either get asked, or answer, where they stand on that
Wellington says
The one statement above all that Trump made about Islam, which would help confirm your assertion that he “partly got Islam,” was back in March of 2016 when he said, “I think Islam hates us.” This was of course used against Trump many times by the MSM and Democrats (sorry for the redundancy) and his later travel ban, eminently justified and which included non-Muslim nations, was regularly characterized as evidence of “Islamophobia,” in part due to this very statement by Trump.
Still, it’s not enough. A much greater awareness of Islam’s many nefarious aspects is needed by American leaders and leaders throughout the world. And this needs to be stated publicly. Not there yet of course.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
The fact that Trump at least “partly” gets islam makes him far better for the country / Western world than most Republicans – and ALL Dem-o-rats.
Not ideal, but a marked improvement.
Wellington says
Call it what one wants—taqiyya, standard Islamic ignorance, just plain stupidity, et al.—it all adds up to the same common denominator and that is that Islam is regularly rooted in the worst of what man has accomplished and rarely, if ever, dispositive of mankind at its best.
Islam is certainly a destroyer of true freedom and one knows this by now or should know it. And freedom, real freedom all around which must be accompanied by common sense and moral intelligence in order to survive, is, a la Abraham Lincoln, the last best hope of mankind.
Islam in its entirety, as with man’s newest totalitarian ideology, Western Leftism, are both mortal enemies of real freedom. Conclude accordingly. I have.
somehistory says
anyone who would become mozlum after, and due to, seeing planes fly into buildings full of innocent humans in order to murder them. is a psychopath…a murderous psychopath.
Nothing to brag about if the only people you can get are murderous psychopaths to join you.
abu taleb says
> You Cannot Expect Me To Believe That A Bunch Of Illiterate Arabs Could Fly Planes So Precisely
Sounds like racist because it implies most Arabs are illiterate. Or, he is lying to cover up the evil of his muslim compatriots. Because as an Arab he must have known precisely the illiteracy of the Arabs, then he must be lying.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
‘We tried this [smashing two 747’s into two buildings] last week on a simulator. We set the settings and the instruments exactly the same time as the Twin Towers and my brother here, the captain, we tried and we missed three times.[‘]
I do not understand what “the same time” means here. What was the same time as what?
John Pepple says
Maybe same time of day so the lighting was the same?
Whatever it means, I don’t believe it’s hard to do this, whether in a simulator or in real life. The hard part of flying (ignoring emergency situations) is landing the plane, not straight and level flight. And aiming a plane at a building should be easy, too.
somehistory says
The terrorist mozlums who took flight training, didn’t care to learn how to land…because they knew they were not going to land any of the planes.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
The muslim terrorists didn’t care about pre-flights, takeoff procedures, or normal landing procedures.
They just wanted to learn how to steer the plane once airborne.
For example, Zacarias Moussaoui learn how to do this in a Boeing 747 simulator:
https://www.newsweek.com/day-minnesota-flight-instructor-was-better-detective-fbi-1616401
somehistory says
Thank you, James, for the confirmation. That showed his intent.
Scotsman48 says
This silly looking old fart disguised as Satan is actually preaching hate as he said we must hate those who are not in the folds of his Fascist Religious Cult and that is the real description of islam.
Such evil preaching and even stated he does not love those who are not muslims and can only love those who are his brothers in islam.
Tolerance and understand of other faiths is certain not a big teaching in islam.