And yet after 9/11, and really, ever since, anyone who dared to suggest that 9/11 had anything to do with Islam was excoriated as an “Islamophobe” and ostracized accordingly. We were told that all Muslims with the possible exception of a tiny minority of extremists absolutely and definitively rejected terrorism, and found 9/11 horrifying. And now will either “moderate Muslims” or leftists excoriate Ridhwan Sebkhaoui as an “Islamophobe” or misunderstander of Islam? Don’t hold your breath.
“New York Islamic Scholar Ridhwan Sebkhaoui: 9/11 Was The Single Biggest Moment In American Muslim History That Shed Light On Islam; We Need To Take Advantage Of Such Opportunities,” MEMRI, September 11, 2026:
New York Islamic scholar Ridhwan Sebkhaoui said in a September 11, 2026 sermon at the Al-Hidaya Center in Latham, New York, that despite the deaths and negative impact of the 9/11 attacks, they were the single biggest moment in American Muslim history because they “shed light” on Islam and resulted in many people eventually embracing Islam….
Ridhwan Sebkhaoui: “Despite all of the negative that came from 9/11, despite so many who died, so many who were affected, it was the single biggest moment in American Muslim history that shed light on Islam. And as a result, so many looked to Islam and embraced Islam. You guys can look into this.
“So many people – there are stories on YouTube – there is a story of one, I forget his name, he was very much against Islam. He went to the mosque, I think this is in Tennessee, he wanted to kill Muslims in that mosque. And he was welcomed with, alhamdulillah – again, remember, most Americans they need that kindness from us – he was welcomed with a brother and a sister that told him, ‘Please come sit down. Please have some food.’ Right, we have great food, alhamdulillah. They served him some food. And he sat, and he listened, and he went back home, and he reflected. And he came back and he listened more, and he accepted Islam. And now he is the imam in that mosque. Allahu Akbar.
[…]
“Moments like these are opportunities. They are opportunities that we need to take advantage of when they come. And we are presently living in an opportunity right now. As I just started off with, if the percentage of those that are fearful of Muslims now is higher than it was after 9/11, I definitely have an opportunity. It will be difficult. It may be hard, I have to take advantage of that opportunity.”
Wellington says
The descriptive, “American Muslim history,” has in and of itself unintended wrongs and warnings written all over it.
Islam had nothing to do with creating or building America, assertions to the contrary by rogues like Obama notwithstanding, and to the extent that Islam in the future has anything to do with America, and at this point in time it unfortunately looks like it will, then to that very extent will it be the case that it will be an unending struggle to retain American freedoms against a faith that is a mortal enemy of freedom.
Islam can contribute nothing to America unless it be that it is finally revealed as inimical to America and thus serves as a valuable lesson not to admire or endorse what should never be admired or endorsed.
Kepha says
Consider that Obama’s statement was partially true–although Obama is probably as generally mendacious as the Communist publicist Davis whom he took for a mentor.
But, there are some early Muslim contributions.
The records of the Dutch West India Company note that an Egyptian-born trader named Nasruddin was killed by Indians who suspected him of having cheated them.
An 18th century high-status Fulani named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (later Anglicized to Job ben Solomon), while going to the coast to sell some Malinke slaves and by paper for resale to religious scholars among his own people, was captured and sold by some Malinke in retaliation. He ended up on a plantation in Maryland, but when an Anglican minister connected to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel discovered that Ayuba was literate in Arabic, arranged for him to be bought out of slavery. He then was sent to England, where he copied out the QUr’an from memory for the benefit of some English Semitologists (back then, before archeologists decoded Akkadian and Ugaritic, Arabic was valued for any light it might shed on biblical Hebrew). Diallo latr went back to Africa–and selling slaves. He provided one of the earliest slave narratives, though.
One Mamout Yarrow (Mamadou Yarrow) was an educated, high status Fulani who got sold to Maryland, ended up saving money made at nighttime odd jobs, got freed at age 60 due to being thought too old to be useful, and then successfully invested in the Columbia Bank of Georgetown after buying freedom for his young enslaved son, then used proceeds to buy a property in Georgetown. He and his immediate heirs made some money at a few other ventures; and, a bit before his death, one of the Peale’s painted his portrait. I also understand that Yarrow descendants are still around in the Washington-Maryland-West-Virginia-Virginia area, but they while Maout Yarrow died a Muslim and was buried in his garden, his descendants have been Baptist Christians for quite a while.
I suppose out honorable ex-POTUS was thinking of how some Wolof, Malinke, and Fulani who were Muslim at the time of sale contributed unpaid labor as slaves.
Maybe, among the escaped or otherwise former slaves who convinced white Americans that the slave system was an abomination, there were Muslims or ex-Muslims. Uncle Kepha would gladly reognize that they made a positive contribution to America; for, while in some ways a conservative Sothron at heart, Uncle Kepha still sees the slave system and its legacy as a great negative in American history.
This being said, I never voted for the O, thought he was a poor excuse for a president (maybe not quite as hapless as Jimmy Carter), and I also utterly dislike Islam! When I teach world history, I always point out that Islam’s chief positive contribution lay in its transmission of goods and ideas from east to west (algebra from India, for intance); while its Dhimmi peoples were responsible for preserving much of the Classical tradition (think the Christian Hunayn ibn Ishaq and sons).
ploome says
I am more impressed b the contribution made in creating our great country, by horses.
Think of all they contributed.
rubiconcrest says
‘Ridhwan Sebkhaoui: “Despite all of the negative that came from 9/11, despite so many who died, so many who were affected, it was the single biggest moment in American Muslim history that shed light on Islam.’
That much is true, but it was also the most spectacular jihadist attack in history. Witnessed by billions of people. We were all introduced to Islam on 9/11. Sadly, GW Bush lost the greatest opportunity to educate us by saying Islam is peace. When he should have said, ‘Islam means submission, and we will not submit. We will hold those who aided this jihad attack in the Islamic world or anywhere else accountable for the harm they have inflicted.
To Muslims living in the USA, he should have said, and politicians should say from now on,… The constitution defends all individuals who adhere to it. Those who wish to destroy it do not belong here. Islam has spread through violence and immigration and Sharia over the centuries. Many Muslims want nothing to do with jihad. They come here to escape oppression. But civilizational jihad in all its forms is not acceptable here. If you want to engage in jihad, you are not welcome here’.
There was no need to hunt down Bin Laden and all the conspirators. We, the free world, could have forced the Arabs to do that. We could have put a stake in the beast’s heart more easily then, but we still can. It’s quite simple: governments must face the threat with truth and facts.
jusfein says
Anche il presidente Carter è stato un imbecille e codardo quando nel 79 , dopo l’attacco all’ambasciata americana in Tehran ha cercato il dialogo coi fanatici musulmani invece di attaccarli con tutte le forze che aveva a disposizione , visto che anche i comunisti iraniani avevano avuto la loro parte di sofferenze e di morti per nano degli stessi maiali islamici e quindi si poteva escludere la reazione dell’Unione sovietica in favore dell’Islam iraniano.
Sono ormai troppe le “personalità” che ancora oggi cercano il dialogo con i musulmani , vedi il papa americano – sulle orme del per fortuna morto papa argentino – che ha da poco accolto a braccia aperte come fossero fratelli in un dio vendicativo e intollerante una delegazione della grande moschea di Roma ( uno dei più importanti centri islamici d’Europa )
E sono troppi gli imbecilli di sinistra – in tutto il mondo – che si schierano assurdamente in appoggio alle rivendicazioni dei musulmani favore di così la loro ascesa al potere.
Basta seguire la cronaca quotidiana per evincerlo ma l’utopia del siamo tutti uguali, del restiamo umani e cagate suicide simili sono sempre pronte a manifestarsi anche violentemente.
E i musulmani ne traggono immediatamente vantaggio.
somehistory says
When non-muzzies say muzzies are to blame for the mass-murder, it’s ‘phobic’….like those muzzies in VA telling the kids that it had nothing to do with islime. However, when muzzies say the same thing, other muzzies brag about it.
This slug has said the intent: they want all non-muzzies to fear them….**fear** creates for the muzziscum an “opportunity”
” if the percentage of those that are fearful of Muslims now is higher than it was after 9/11, I definitely have an opportunity. It will be difficult. It may be hard, I have to take advantage of that opportunity.”
This muzzislug will reap as he is sowing.
Tony says
Unless Islam and its Muslim Organizations are weakened by NO PUBLIC FUNDING, Muslims only get stronger and more deceitful against Non-Muslims when living amongst Non-Muslims because Muslims operate with impunity using Muslim deceit, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:28, 54; 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). 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…”
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 due to Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism with NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. 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.”
gravenimage says
New York: Islamic scholar says 9/11 was ‘single biggest moment in American Muslim history that shed light on Islam’
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Well, he’s not wrong–the biggest moment in “American Muslim history” is mass slaughtering innocent people. Muslims must feel so proud…
Siddhi Nasranni says
Ah !! Here is the catch, if you are NOT a Muslim you are not innocent.
” In the Muslim world the Innocent are Muslims. Jews and Christians, Infidels, to include pagans, are not among the INNOCENTS.
https://understand-islam.com/2014/03/12/muslim-innocent-infidel-not-innocent/
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Siddhi. So no Infidel killed is *ever* innocent as Muslims see it.
ploome says
yes they are proud
they are acting according to their koranic mandate- jihad, to make islam supreme in the world
and look how far they have come since then
-they HAVE struck terror in the USA,-can;t say a word about the real islam
-their numbers have exploded
-their mosks have increased more than ten fold
-halal in every supremarket
-more Jews targeted and huge increase in religious violence
( FBI data shows Jews, .02% of USA population, remained the most targeted religious group in US hate crimes in 2025, accounting for 64% of religion-based incidents.)
-schools and students brainwashed
-islamophobia is now an accusation and a social crime
and, in California, the P O S governor
two holy days in Islam are now being recognized as state holidays, giving families greater flexibility to observe their faith and celebrate together.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 2017, making California the second state in the country to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays. The law addresses a longstanding challenge, as many Muslims often feel pressure deciding whether to ask for special permission to celebrate with their families or show up to work, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations
who could have imagined the 25 years after 9/11 we would be bending over backwards, to make muslim feel comfortable in America?
David Rasch says
There are two types of societies, MAKERS and TAKERS. Moslemism is a TAKER society. It produces nothing and relies on others to work. The basis of the society is tribute paid to the ruling tribal heads.
gravenimage says
+1
Cynthia says
Bush had an insane reaction to 9/11. We could plainly see how he ushered out the Saudis before any could be investigated. Gulf oil money has doomed us all . For greed, our leaders have sold us out- our universities propagandized, our streets full of professional protesters, the anti Semitism and anti Americanism beyond control.
Charles Wilson says
I am writing a book about the need to phase out Islam, altogether in the UK at least, by resurrecting the anti-faith values of Thomas Paine’s Enlightenment. In this book I call GW Bush’s anti-logical statement after 9/11 “The Bush Blunder” . Americans should be ashamed of this idiot who misled the world. The question is why all the governments of the world rubber stamped it as if it had a scintilla of truth in it. All Muslims are guilty of 9/11, especially the moderates because all Muslims by definition venerate the evil book, namely the Koran that inspired bin Laden to kill 3000 innocent people. If they don’t revere the book they shouldn’t call themselves Muslims. I’ve read bin Laden’s theological justifications for his beliefs and he has an authentic understanding of Islam. He says the essence of Islam is “hate” against the infidel and he is right. I have studied the Koran. Verse 98:6 as we all know by now I’m sure. declares infidels “the most vile of all beings”. The Koran also curses unbelievers to hell hundreds of times. It is a book of pure blasphemous evil. I don’t believe in religious freedom anymore if it gives us Islam and allows it to metastasize.
Ralph says
Charles: Please surround yourself with all the security you can manage. Remember Geert Wilders and Saloman Rushdie. May you safely continue to write your book until long after it has been published.
tgusa says
Islamophobes do exist but they are the people that excoriate and ostracize anyone who dares to point out any fact that is critical of Islam. Those people have been terrorized in to submission. Terrorism works. At least it does on them.
Beans🫘 says
“officials told ABC News that Al Hammami, while working as a co-pilot trainee for Oman Air in 2024, was found to be in possession of extremist materials. The suspect was allowed to continue working for the airline in an administrative role, the sources said.”
So…. Then he gets another pilot job? Well we can’t blame Oman on this, this is on the UAE and Israel. Oman fired him and warned about him. Yet UAE hired him and Israel let its citizens fly on that plane…. Luckily, everybody survived.
How many more of these radicals are out there? That’s a big question I’m sure everyone here has asked.
David Rasch says
Moslemism is a ‘take’ culture. U.S.A. is a make culture. The moslem god says kill enemies which being translated means non moslemites. Christian culture teaches love you9r enemies which includes moslemites.
mark c says
Ezekiel ch.32
Most of the names have changed, but evil still breathes there. Chai Yisrael
Kepha says
Uncle Keph freely admits that 9/11 was an event that made him take a longer, harder look at Islam and realize what an evil, demonic force it is.
gravenimage says
Yes–it was after 9/11 that I first decided to read the Qur’an–to see if Islam really taught violence. I expected perhaps a few ambiguous passages–but *nothing* like the flood of violence I encountered. And this was before I knew anything about abrogation and the chronological order of the Qur’an–which make things worse. I then went on to read the Sira and many of the Sahih Hadith.
somehistory says
OT….except that islime is totally involved
‘A Jewish journalist recorded pro-Palestinian protesters outside services. He was reportedly suspended from his job”
“(JTA) — TORONTO – A number of Canadian groups are demanding answers in the wake of media reports that the country’s national broadcaster suspended a Jewish reporter after he posted a video of pro-Palestinian protesters outside Yom Kippur services and wrote about his pained reaction.”
What happened, what the reporter *reported*….and why he was fired.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/a-jewish-journalist-recorded-pro-palestinian-protesters-outside-services-he-was-reportedly-suspended-from-his-job/ar-AA2dtQA0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ac12211881143d0a71e0353fe94847d&ei=4
gravenimage says
Just insane, Somehistory–thanks for the link to this appalling story.
Walter Sieruk says
The real way that those murderous and destructive jihad attacks carried by those 19 Muslim terrorists of al Qaeda had “shed light on Islam “is that it did, or at least should have “shed light”, for all those who are willing to see, as in those jihad attacks revealed diabolical deadly nature of Islam’s jihad. Therefore, the death inflecting of Islam may known to the precisely unaware American public.
On September 11, 2001 the Muslims terrorists of al Qaeda committed those mass murder affronts of that horrendous jihad mass- murder Islamic attacks. Which was the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam.
All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth.
This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people. For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
Tthose murderous jihad affronts, which occurred on September 11, .2001 “did shed light” as in it revealed that that Islam with its jihad is an outright abomination and a sin unto God.
For 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. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false, dangerous, demonic and deadly religion.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He’s right. It’s another thing that every politician – from George W Bush on down did their best to cover up this exposure of islam – and muslims
David Rasch says
9/11 DID TAKE THE ‘POLITICAL’ GLOVES OFF MOSLEMISM.
gravenimage says
Yet 25 years later most Infidels still have not noticed this.