Robert Spencer has already alerted us to what will be left out of the ceremonies on September 11 marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks in New York on the Twin Towers, in Washington at the Pentagon, and inside a plane in the sky over Shanksville, Pennsylvania. What should be at the very center of the observances on that day — that is, the ideology of Islam, the fons et origo of the terrorist attacks in which more than 3,000 people were murdered — will almost everywhere be passed over in silence.
Other voices have been added to the chorus of critics anticipating what will not be said that day. Among them is Todd Bensman, who has gone through the 576-page report of the 9/11 Commission, and helpfully selected key paragraphs that explain just what motivated the Muslim terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center. Let us hope that before remarking on that attack as part of the ceremonies marking its 25th anniversary, the Great and Good among our politicians, and members of the media, will read those paragraphs, and consider carefully where the source of those murderous attacks is to be found.
More on those paragraphs from the 9/11 Commission’s report can be found here: “On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder,” by Todd Bensman, Daily Signal, September 2, 2026:
As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now.
Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,” exactly, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out these attacks. The too-offensive-for-public-discourse “why” part of 9/11 can be readily found in, for instance, the recovered United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit recordings, which reveal one hijacker’s motivation at an authentic moment of truth. Nine times over that nosediving flight’s final six seconds before it disintegrated with all 40 victims into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field, the hijacker repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar … !” Allah is great.
Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial (think New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani) to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does. Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.
Muslims are far more numerous, politically powerful, and dangerous today than they were twenty-five years ago in America. They have managed to convince large numbers of Americans that any criticism of Islam or of Muslims should be anathematized as “Islamophobia.” They have managed as well to capture the college campuses, where pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests have been so sickeningly popular. Who would have thought, on September 12, 2001, that 25 years later, Muslims would be celebrated and their critics reviled?
Todd Bensman has compiled a florilegium of paragraphs excerpted from the 9/11 Commission’s report. Send his most useful compilation to those whom you believe will be memorializing, orally or in writing, the 25th anniversary of the attack, in the hope that some of them will learn enough to properly describe what motivated it. As everyone who frequents this website knows, that attack by 19 Muslims was prompted by only one thing — the ideology of Islam.
Emilie Green says
Islamphobia
[is-lah-muh-foh-bee-uh]
noun
A healthy survival instinct triggered by not wanting to be murdered by 7th-Century cosplayers [costume players] who hate dogs, gays, Jews, Christians, music, you and your entire civilization
Synonym: basic pattern recognition learned from 1400 years of observed behavior
If you’re not an islamophobe as understood, you’re not watching out for your own well-being or that of your kith and kin.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Emilie
This is the best definition of islamophobia that I have ever read. If one ignores the linguistic underpinnings of that inane term
somehistory says
They are still murdering innocent people.
Former Gov. Pataki has revealed that he has lung disease from the toxins belched out on that day and for days after.
“Pataki was diagnosed over the last five years, he told the outlet.
“I just look at it as I’m one of the lucky ones,” Pataki told The Post.
“You know, 25 years later, I feel great. I have this minor residual impact from that time. But compared to so many others, I consider myself very lucky,” he said.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani also suffers from a restrictive airway disease after being hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia earlier this year, according to a rep for the politician-turned Trump attorney, the outlet reported.
Recently Pataki suggested New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should not attend this year’s annual ceremony.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/new-york-s-ex-governor-reveals-9-11-illness-diagnosis-ahead-of-25th-anniversary/ar-AA2bLeWw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a9f15d498ed4ee0ad50e0d2a88cb86f&ei=37.
B, Cronyn says
Excellent article that should be remembered and discussed in the media and at high schools and colleges.
OLD GUY says
Good luck getting that into higher education, islam has bought its way into those institutions.
Walter Sieruk says
As for the question ‘in the title article which is “What must be said on September 11th ?” An even better question would be “What should be done with other Americas who are still unaware of the violent and death inflecting jihad terrorism of Islam ? ‘
For the sad reality is that many Americans still haven’t yet learned and likewise have not come to understand the those jihadist mass- murder Islamic terror attacks which occurred on September 11, 2001 had been actual Qu ‘ran based jihad terrorist attacks.
Don’t let them fool you, the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for politics.”
Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one.
Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” The terrible harsh reality is that using jet planes as missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” than sword can.
The American people to the actual deadly nature of Islam before it’s too late
Billy says
9/11 was a Terrorist Attack by Islam’s Muslims, a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an. 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.).
Public Funding is a privilege that should not be granted to organizations like Islam and its Muslim Organizations which are fundamentally against the US Constitution and Western Constitutions. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” See also Qur’an 2:191; 4:89, 91; 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 47:4; 48:29, etc. Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
ploome says
I would be more impressed by Mr/. Tod Bensman if he translated allah Akbar correctly, “allah is the greatest”
and
“Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.”
described the motivation as plain everyday islam
there is no such thing as the western made up word, to spare the real islam from examination and condemnation.
(and terrorists are jihadis or mujahideen – terror is their tactic. These individuals are motivated by their so called, religion, following the instructions and behavior of their prophet in their koran)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ploome
There ain’t much of a difference b/w saying that allah is greater than #YOUR_GOD vs allah is the greatest. End result is the same – belittling the faiths of non-muslims worldwide
However, I do agree w/ you on “islamism” – a term that did not exist before 1920, and even then was sparingly used. The first time I heard that word was after 9/11, to draw some artificial distinction b/w what those 19 hijackers did, vs islam
Mo says
I can’t stand that ridiculous term!
Mark1649 says
Saudi Arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks. Our government did nothing but cover for the Saudis, and they are also at fault for allowing these terrorists into our country. After 9/11, we should have carpet bombed Riyadh.
ploome says
YES
Bush and his best buddy, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud
Bandar’s parents were Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz and his Ethiopian concubine (slave) Khiziran.
.More on the Saudi private jet flights right after 9/11, 4/7/04
Right after 9/11, four private Saudi jets were given special dispensation to fly out of the US, beginning on September 15, 2001. The flight manifests showing passenger lists are now viewable on line at the website of Craig Unger, the author of House of Bush/ House of Saud. As noted by Tom Flocco, the first flight corroborates earlier stories of a fifth “phantom” flight from Tampa to Lexington on September 13, when all regular flights were still grounded.
All four flights carried members of the Saudi royal family. The first, from Lexington, Kentucky to London, 9/15/01, also carried a young man, Ahmad A.M. Alhazmi, with the same family name as Nawaf Alhazmi, one of the hijackers…….
read the rest at,
https://www.peterdalescott.net/sau/
ploome says
Right after 9/11, four private Saudi jets were given special dispensation to fly out of the US, beginning on September 15, 2001. The flight manifests showing passenger lists are now viewable on line at “House of Bush. House of Saud..
see website of Peter Dale Scott for details
ploome says
my previous post about this issue, seems too have been moderated to extinction??
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Well, it was so thoughtful of those SAUDIS
to HELP RUMSFELD ERASE his PENTAGON $2.3 TRILLION ACCOUNTING PROBLEM
by smashing to smitherines
ALL the EVIDENCE that RUMSFELD had so precisely
collected in those OFFICES where those helpful SAUDIS FLEW INTO…
Also KILLING NEARLY EVERY ACCOUNTANT with KNOWLEDGE of the data.. 30 of them..
Similarly those SAUDIS wiped out OTHER EMBARRASSING SECRETS in that THIRD TOWER the SAUDIS managed to demolish without even flying a plane into it……TOWER 7..
ETC ETC….. ttyl….. FALSE FLAG…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m no fan of Saudi Arabia, but we should have punished them in the time b/w 2001 to 2015, when King Abdullah was still alive. It was under his watch that everything there happened. Whereas under MbS, Saudi Arabia has been eroding the Wahabi influence, and most recently, getting rid of deogatory material about Jews & Christians in their educational institutions. Now is the least appropriate time to punish them: the appropriate time to punished them came & went, and the responsible for that deriliction should be primarily laid at the feet of Bush and Obama
My suggestion: the next time Saudi Arabia gets threatened by anybody, like it was from Saddam Hussein in 1991, just ignore them
Walter Sieruk says
It’s not a good thing ,at all ,that 25 years after all those murderous and destructive jihad attacks which occurred on September 11th 2001 that too many Americans still continue to remain in a condition of blissful ignorance about the terrible dangers of Islamic terrorism.
Those mass murderers of the jihad affronts, which happened on September 11, .2001 was an outright abomination and a sin unto God. Those horrendous Islamic terrorist attacks were the result of jihadist Muslims obeying the instructions found in Islam’s ‘holy book” the Qur ‘an for the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. . Therefore Islam is a false, dangerous, demonic and deadly religion.
rubiconcrest says
9/11/2001
The day we were introduced to Islam.
Wellington says
If no Islam, then no 9/11. This simple. This complex.
gravenimage says
What Must Be Said on September 11
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Hear, hear, Hugh!
Tim gallagher says
Of course the Muslim terrorist attack on 9 11 was the worst attack but it is one of 50,000 or so Muslim terrorist attacks all around the world, such as that theatre in Paris, attacks in London, the Bondi atrocity along with two others in Sydney. It is staggering how many idiots in our societies still don’t get it and keep running some disgusting protection racket for Islam and it’s scum of the earth cult members. Nearly every person with a functioning brain should have woken up by now. Islam is rotten and vicious and should be banned from all non Muslim countries. Muslims have a rotten attitude towards all non Muslims and they need to be locked away in Muslim countries.
ploome says
people are lazy, and scared
they don;t want to believe or are unable to wrap their heads around the hypocrisy and true vicious nature of islam
if people did believe, they would have to DO something about it, and no nation want to go to war to resist the jihad
like President Trump is doing…
fighting the jihad is messy and vicious, and as we see, President Trump is almost alone in his fight
the only “all in ally”, is Israel
Tim gallagher says
I agree, ploome, that a lot of people seem to be just too lazy to do a bit of research on Islam and see how evil it is. I think is too important an issue to remain ignorant about because I believe letting Muslims into non Muslim countries, with the rotten, hate filled attitude Muslims have, will wreck any country.. there have been so many Muslim terrorist attacks over the years that almost everyone should have got the message by now. People are sleepwalking into disaster. It is pathetic. As you say, trump is tearing into the scum in Iran. Israel sees Muslims for the evil scum they are. If only far more slow learners would wake up.
Lizabee says
It’s like if we had any historical account of what happened at Pearl Harbor it woud be verboten to mention Japan or the Japanese attackers because it would offend the majority of Japanese who weren’t involved. We must be Christians and turn the other cheek. We are sinners too.
Like Hassan Piker said, “we deserved it.”
This is how Judeo-Christian Western Civilization becomes extinct…by guilt and self-loathing.
Billy Bones says
One of the best documentaries on 9/11 that you can find anywhere was put together by National Geographic of all people. It is titled Inside 9/11. It is in two parts each about an hour long. It is available on YOUTUBE.
The first part is a bio on Osama Bin Laden and how the plan evolved over time. The second part is about the run-up to the attack and the attack itself. National Geographic tends to be a little on the PC side most of the time, but not in this case. Again, it is an excellent source.
John Pepple says
Leftist idiots think that 9/11 was all about grievances that Muslims had against us Americans (and more generally, against Westerners). They asked that stupid question, “Why do you think they hate us?” Notice that these scumbags did not ask a similar question when Malala was shot, because asking why the shooter hated Malala would obviously yield a different answer than it would for 9/11, and if the answer was different for her, then why not for 9/11?
In fact, all Muslim violence comes back to the same motive: anger that someone did not agree with them about religion.
Then there are the far-right idiots who think it was done by the Israelis. Like flat-earthers, there is nothing one can say to them that will change their minds.
In order to prevent Islamification of the West, we need unity, or at least an understanding by our elites of what is happening. Unfortunately, we have neither.
ploome says
they hate us, because it is essential. to their cult/religion
and
we are prevented from accurately describing islam, by government, media and accusations of islamophobia
and, in UK criticizing islam is a crime
and so we fight “terrorists” and get cancelled if we described them as they really are, and their religious motivations….they are jihadis….muslms
Ed says
Islam is an evil sociopolitical ideology disguised as a religion. The author of the Quran is Satan. Muhammad was a pedophile, murderer, rapist, thief, liar and pervert.
Larry Estavan says
CAIR Does 911 20th Anniversary Edition –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTHJQSqeB-E
tgusa says
At 8:46 a.m. the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:57 a.m. Americans on flight 93 began to fight back ( nearly 30 minutes after the muslim hijackers launched their takeover). By 10:03 a.m it was all over. The muslims plan had been thwarted. We should mourn the dead and that day’s terrible events but flight 93 truly represents America and Americans.