I told you this was going to happen. This note at the end of this weepy creepy USA Today piece is telling: “The reporters’ roles covering First Amendment issues at the USA TODAY Network is made possible by a collaboration among Freedom Forum, Journalism Funding Partners and the USA TODAY Network. Freedom Forum does not provide editorial input.” That is essentially an admission that those groups paid to have this piece featured in USA Today. Go to Freedom Forum’s website and you’ll see that it is a leftist organization focused on Trump’s alleged enormities; this alleged free-speech organization never said a word about the very real and thoroughgoing censorship of foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression.
“25 years after 9/11, many Muslims fear a new backlash,” by BrieAnna J. Frank, Cate Charron, Angele Latham, Stephany Matat, and Taylor Seely, USA Today, September 6, 2026:
The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, began like any other day. Sabinah Mohyuddin was getting her kids ready for school in Clarksville, Tennessee, while her husband, a cancer physician, was still asleep….
Then Mohyuddin, a Muslim, learned the hijakers also followed Islam.
“It fell on me like a heavy weight,” she said. “What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?”
Not a word, you’ll notice, about the martial and violent passages in the Qur’an, or 1,400 years of jihad violence, or about the jihad attacks around the world today. USA Today leads us to believe that the Islamic identity of the attackers was entirely incidental to their attacks, and that Islam is completely harmless and non-threatening.
Now, 25 years after the attacks, Muslims across the country are asking the same question as they experience rising Islamophobia and concerns about their First Amendment right to religious freedom.
Over 40% of U.S. adults believe Muslims are less patriotic than other Americans and that Muslim Americans are having a negative impact on the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in May.
The stigmatization, often amplified by politicians, has affected everything from immigration statuses to due process rights and everyday religious practices. Muslim leaders and community members, in turn, told the USA TODAY Network they’re left fighting to defend their faith and warning the nation that its founding principles are at stake….
Note the sleight of hand here. We have gotten not the slightest hint that Islam is political, and are told that our right to religious freedom is at stake. Yet the religious practices of Muslims are not what makes Islam controversial.
“I think there’s a lot of propaganda pushed against Muslims, which leads to an unsafe environment,” Khan said.
Abutaa fears that won’t change anytime soon.
“We’re going to see, at least unfortunately the way the waves are going, more anti-Muslim rhetoric than ever before,” Abutaa said. “It’ll probably be worse than post-9/11, especially with the demonization of Muslims in America being the new McCarthyism.”…
The ones who are really being demonized here, as always, are the critics of Islam and foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression. They’re portrayed as irrational bigots, without the slightest hint that there might be any genuine problem to which they’re responding.
A fight for the right to wear a hijab in a booking photograph has also come to the forefront. There have been at least seven lawsuits over the matter since 2024, according to Religion News Service.
Among them is a complaint by four Muslim women in Arizona who sued multiple police departments and Arizona State University after male officers removed their hijabs while arresting them at pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2024.
The women alleged the officers violated their First Amendment rights by denying their request for religious accommodations, such as removing their hijabs only in front of female officers. An Arizona district court judge dismissed several of their claims, though one against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office remains.
Jabaieh was one of those women, telling the USA TODAY Network she was in jail for 26 hours without the covering she’d worn since she was in high school.
“You wouldn’t want somebody to take off your shirt,” Jabaieh said. “I felt stripped, and I felt exposed. I felt scared. I felt humiliated. I felt small.”
She called wearing the hijab “something that was deeply personal between me and my religion that was taken out of my control.”
Why are all these pious Muslim women getting arrested? Why does USA Today pass over in silence the fact that women are getting imprisoned and killed for not wearing the hijab in Iran? Why is USA Today silent about how Muslim women are threatened and worse for not wearing it?
The incident echoed other interactions she’s had throughout her life related to her faith, including a man asking her as a teenager whether she was married.
“I was like, ‘Oh, no sir, I’m 15,'” Jabaieh recalled telling him. “He was like, ‘Yeah, but your people do that, right? Like Muslims, y’all get married at six, eight, nine?'”
No mention of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha and how he is the “excellent example,” or of why child marriage is rampant in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Despite the challenges for American Muslims, there are “silver linings in what’s been a pretty dark cloud for the last 25 years,” according to Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights lawyer and author of books including “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order.”…
Dark cloud? Muslims have been streaming into the U.S. in large numbers since 9/11. Why are they coming to this alleged “Islamophobic” hellhole?
Mohyuddin, too, has gotten involved.
She and other Muslim leaders in Tennessee organized protests and pushback to a 2011 state bill that initially sought to make it a felony to follow Sharia law. The bill was rewritten as a provision allowing the governor to determine that a group provided “material support” to terrorists – without providing evidence to the public – and passed.
Shortly after, she became a founding board member of the American Muslim Advisory Council and now serves as its executive director. The Nashville-based organization challenges Islamophobic legislation and works to combat Muslim stereotypes.
“In hard times, what gives me hope is seeing more of the community willing to exert their rights, and willing to organize and speak up,” she said. “Even despite all of the attempts to silence us.”
Who is attempting to silence the American Muslim Advisory Council, or Muslims in general? Absolutely no one. There are some people and groups calling attention to the fact that Sharia is political, supremacist, expansionist and violent, and not as benign as Mohyuddin and her comrades claim. She is free to deal with the substance of our arguments, but instead contents herself with calling us names and attempting to silence us. Freedom Forum remains uninterested in that.
somehistory says
It seems that most muzzies in the U.S. have money….more than the average American. so, they can pack up their things….and the pretend *troubles* and go to some place where they won’t have to deal with any “backlash,” which they always claim comes to them.
Knowing what islime is all about, I have no time, no sympathy for the whining muzzies who know full well they would gladly slit throats to make sure islime takes total control of every life.
Walter Sieruk says
One thing is for sure, which is that the surviving family members of the people who had been murdered by Muslim terrorists on September 11th 2001 are right and justified by having a petition to ban that Muslim mayor Zohan Mamdani from being present at the 25th anniversary memorial events.
For Mamdani is very fond of death –inflection jihad terrorism as observed by his favorable view those murderous affronts committed by the jihadists of Hamas of 10/7/.23 which is the opposite side of the 9/11 jihad terror /murder coin.
Wellington says
One way or another Buttlims end up making it all about them.
There are many completely legitimate criticisms one can make of the world’s worst religion. Many. And here’s just one of them: Islam is steeped in narcissistic victim status to an absolutely maudlin and self-parodying degree.
Islam sucks. Nothing sucks more.
somehistory says
One of my professors, Wellington, is also a psychologist. He says that psychopaths (with whom he spoke as a special agent with the FBI) think in terms of “It’s all about Me!”
Enter a world-wide mob of psychopaths….some wearing slave, “rape her/not me,” rags.
The mob says, “It’s all about Us!”
rubiconcrest says
Interesting. Mohyuddin said the first thing she thought when learning ‘the hijakers also followed Islam. It fell on me like a heavy weight,” she said. “What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?’
Perfect comment of a psychopath:
1. Firstd concern not for the victims.
2. No surprise that Muslims could do such a thing and misinterpret her peaceful faith.
But it’s Islam her answers are coached … is all about lawfare. She’s lying.
Walter Sieruk says
The movement of the relatives of those murdered by Muslim terrorists on 9/11/2001 have signed a petition calling on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend the 25th anniversary ceremony, is very good idea.
For insidious un-American Islamic subversive stealth jihadist Mamdani is a two legged walking and talking affront of adding insult to injury to the surviving family members of the people who had been murdered on Islamic attacks of Islam’s jihad on September 11th. 2001 by the Muslim terrorists of al Qaeda.
Larry Estavan says
“Why are all these pious Muslim women getting arrested?”
Indeed –
CAIR And The UC Irvine Hijab Crisis –
https://youtu.be/hjV8hFDgkBU
tgusa says
It took five AWFL’s to come up with that bilge.
The First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Notice how the AWFL’s ignore freedom of speech, the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? The AWFL’s use the free exercise of religion as their argument but that part of the First Amendment does not cover a cult posing as a religion. A cult that establishes their religion under threat of death. A cult that prohibits the free exercise of religion. A cult that prohibits every right listed in the First Amendment. Those AWFL’s are dumber than a box of rocks and a menace to American society. Please God rid us of the loathsome AWFL’s (and their islamic BFF’s).
tgusa says
The AWFL’s are a portrait of why men of the past restricted certain activities of women. The men of the past were wise. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights are much to important to leave to the AWFL’s. On the Internet there is a growing chorus of people that calling for a reevaluation of women’s rights. I have to admit, regarding the AWFL’s, they have a point. If American women want to keep the rights they have marched for in the past I suggest that they start marching in large numbers in opposition to the AWFL’s before it is too late.
abu taleb says
I also fear the “backlash” from the 9/11, 10/7, 7/7 (the London attack at 2005), or May 1998 because muslims are encouraged to attack more as they see the attacks were successful in killing and harming non muslims.
Why no mainstream media talk about the fear of non muslims from the threat of the muslims? It does not have to be some jihad attack which kills many people, some forced closure of churches or even louder and longer sound from mosque loudspeakers can scare non muslims.
Tony says
Deceitful Islam and its Muslims play the victim card along with Muslim deceit, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism against Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Actually, Islam is the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islam Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.).
Public funding is a privilege that should not be granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution or Western Constitutions. Islam and its Organizations are against the US Constitution due to Muslim funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Genocidal Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
saturnine says
“It fell on me like a heavy weight,” she said. “What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?”
This is always the first priority of Muslims following an Islamic attack. No Muslim has ever said, “These so-called jihadists have corrupted our peaceful Islamic faith! I will now devote my life to debunking their perversions and blasphemies of our prophet so that no Muslim commits an atrocity like this again.”
So telling.
https://www.askakafir.com/#died-fighting
ploome says
excellent link
Rufolino says
Where are all these ‘moderate’ Muslims who never engage in any violent activity ?
Why aren’t they out in large numbers protesting about Muslim violence after another terror attack ?
They are silent, and why is this ?
ploome says
they don;t exist
Crusader says
Not surpising since their narcissistic, psychopathic god produces the fruit of sociopaths who know, just like allah to twist, connive, lie, cheat and steal from normal, actual hard-working good humans out of house and home. Here in Germany the heads of companies believed they would bring in “Arbeitskraft” – ‘Workers” to continue the German way of life. What a joke, now they want to gaslight any and all of us who want to discuss the problems we are facing from these cultists. We Germans are talking and the title “Far Right” is losing its grip to keep people quiet.
Walter Sieruk says
Zohan Mamdani had proven himself to be a liar. For that lying stealth jihadist said “I love this city I love this country.” In that statement Mamdani is putting into practice the Islamic doctrine of Taqqyya, Which is the teaching that speaking lies of deception are good things to do as long as the lying deceit is done for the advancement of Islam ,with its Sharia.
Sarprina81 says
He is no American. He is a foreign agent.
Sarprina81 says
The moderate Muslim is a mythical creature invented by cowed westerners of leftist bent.