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Speaker 4style every home 25 years after 9 11 a quarter century after muslim terrorists murdered nearly 3 000 americans here is where we currently stand the mayor of new york is an islamic terrorist sympathizer so is the democratic senate candidate in michigan so are congress people from new york to michigan to minnesota the west has imported millions of immigrants from muslim countries a huge swath of whom do not support western values the west has continued to excuse and appease islamic radicalism across the globe with some rare exceptions and many americans nearly the entire left along with the horseshoe right now agree with the anti-american worldview promoted by osama bin laden that the united states and the west are chiefly responsible for suffering around the world and that islamic terrorism is simply blowback for western sin today we'll talk about who actually committed 9 11 what they thought what they still think and why the west still lacks the intellectual and moral tools to combat it and we'll talk about what must come next this is the ben shapiro show we're going to start today with a history lesson a lesson in memory there are a lot of people listening to this show and just walking around the united states who weren't alive for 9 11. it's been that long basically you have to be about 30 years old or older in order to remember 9 11. so when we remember for a lot of folks this is the first time they're even experiencing what the history was i mean that's just a reality as time moves on things become more distant but for an entire generation of people for several generations of people this was the worst moment in american history what ought we remember on the 25th anniversary of 9 11. of course we should remember the pain that americans suffered and that america still suffers here's president trump talking about it
Speaker 5we will always remember the victims and the families of september 11th 2001 very famous date unfortunately and it started out as such a beautiful day we will honor their lives we will cherish their beautiful memories and we will protect this country and its freedoms for every future generation we will protect it like never before for anyone who lived it no words can do justice to the anguish of that day and of course all of
Speaker 4that is true and we ought to remember the pain and yes we ought to remember what we lost some some 2977 drones were flown into the skies above new york recreating the twin towers frankly in my opinion it's a disgrace we didn't rebuild the twin towers larger than they ever were and you just have these gaping holes in the middle of manhattan that's a huge shame and a mistake but listen when we remember it is not enough to be vague about that day and that seems to be the purposeful tendency to be vague who did it and what did they think if you listen to our politicians we have no idea it is a mystery wrapped in an enigma it's just a thing that happened a bad thing that happened we have no idea why it happened or how it happened or the thoughts of the people who did it or the people who still agree with them today zorn mamdani the mayor of new york a man who once rapped in solidarity with the holy land five the holy land five of course are people who went to jail for material support of terrorism via the holy land foundation zorn mamdani has nothing but sympathy for a wide variety of islamic radicals he is now the mayor of the city in which 9 11 took place and here he was making his statement on the 25th anniversary we remember 9 11 as the
Speaker 6darkest day in our city's history but we also remember what so many new yorkers did in that darkness we remember the thousands upon thousands of new yorkers who lined up for hours to donate blood we remember the people who opened their homes to those who could not get home we remember the workers who carried their colleagues down hundreds of stairs then turned around and went back up to find someone else who needed help 25 years later we have a sacred obligation to those who were stolen from us to care for one another as they cared for strangers to live lives worthy of the sacrifices they made and to build a city worthy of their courage a city where we run toward one another that is how we remember
Speaker 4you know again everything that mamdani is saying here would be equally applicable if the towers had just collapsed on their own every single thing so if you were just watching this if you didn't know anything about it if you are a young person who didn't live through 9 11 if you were an alien who were to land on planet earth today you would have literally no idea who did what to whom and there is a purposeful attempt to obscure what happened on 9 11 and who did it and why again if you were an alien and you arrived on this planet today and you read the headlines from the new york times this morning from their website you would assume that 9 11 was actually an american attack on muslims the top of the new york times web page had the following three headlines quote 25 years after 9 11 a nation gathers to remember and to mourn the lives lost that was headline number one headline number two trump personifies a nation moving on and headline number three islamophobia shaped a generation of muslim new yorkers there was also a headline from the new york times facing islamophobia mamdani keeps focus on 9 11 victims because that's really who zor mamdani is never mind that the 9 11 victims many of them don't want him around they certainly don't want him attending their events this is worse than useless it is counterproductive it is a total betrayal of the american people and the victims of 9 11 and their families and all the people who fought to defend america in the aftermath we have to remember and relive the evil that happened on 9 11 because if we don't what we really forget is the nature of our enemies who are still out there and still doing things and still think the same things and we have as a society we have forgotten so today i'll go through what actually happened and what they thought and what's happened since so to begin on 9 11 as we know 2 977 americans were murdered two american airplanes were hijacked and flown directly into the world trade centers flight 11 was the first flight that hit here is tape of flight attendant betty ann ong who was radioing down and said somebody had been stabbed in business class and that they
Speaker 7were being hijacked this is 8 20 a.m the cockpit's not answering somebody's stabbed in business class and um i think there's mace that we can't breathe i don't know i think we're getting hijacked
Speaker 4that first plane american airlines flight 11 hit the north tower of the world trade center at 8 46 a.m it hit between floors 93 99 of the north tower there were 87 passengers on board including the crew everyone was killed instantly every stairwell route above floor 91 was severed no one could escape if you were above floor 91 here is what that video looked like from that horrifying day again many of us remember this is a very interesting video it's a very interesting video it's a very interesting video it's a very interesting video at first people thought it must have been some sort of accident when the first plane hit those were the news reports that there had been some sort of horrifying accident which was a civilian airliner had been flown into the tower as it turns out of course that was not true paul battaglia there there's many many many tapes of people who are located in the towers who are calling their families to tell them they love them because they knew they would never come home to them. A man named Paul Battaglia calling 911 from the 100th floor of the North Tower. It's 8.54 a.m.
Speaker 8Hi. It's hard to talk. Yeah. There's a lot of smoke. Right. We're all overreacting. Please come right now. What floor are you on? 100 North East. All right. Okay, so what's your phone number there? Sir, I'm on the cell phone. All right. No problem. We'll get to you.
Speaker 4And, of course, firefighters immediately started rushing the buildings trying to get people out. Literally hundreds of firefighters were killed on 9-11. Again, at the beginning, for those who don't remember this, and I think anyone who's alive at this point remembers this vividly. I was in Los Angeles at the time, and I first found out about this because we were dropping off my sister at school, and all the teachers were crowded around a TV, and we kind of went inside and saw all of this unfold. The second plane, United Airlines Flight 175. hit the South Tower at 9.03 a.m. When this happened, as we'll see in a little bit, when the actual towers fell, people believed that up to 60,000 to 80,000 people could have been dead because that's the number of people who were actually working in the towers. This plane hit between floors 77 and 85 of the South Tower. The 60 passengers who were on board, including the crew, were instantly killed. There's some pretty extraordinary heroism stories. There's a man wearing a red bandana who, it turns out, was named Wells Crowther. He was a traitor. He was a 24-year-old. Equity is a traitor, former volunteer firefighter. He was going up and down and carrying people down the stairs before he lost his own life in the collapse. Brian Sweeney is one of the people who sent a voicemail to his wife. Here he was talking to his family.
Speaker 9Here he was talking to his parents and everybody. And I just totally love you and I'll see you when you get there. Bye, babe. I'll call you.
Speaker 4People who were on the street were trying to dodge the debris because debris immediately began raining down from the towers. The footage, again, is astonishing. A lot of this footage was not made publicly available for years. For years. Because we all talk about there was essentially a conspiracy of silence not to... allow for these images to be ingrained in an entire generation of Americans beyond the very basics. Because, you know, Americans might be too terrible in our response. People began leaning out of the towers trying to breathe, trying to survive. Again, if they were above the stories that had been hit, there was no place for them to go. Literally no place for them to go. And then at least 37 people, probably well over 50, ended up jumping to the... to their death from the North Towers because people were trapped in the heat. They were trapped in the fires. They couldn't get out. People began leaping to their death from the towers. Those are human bodies dropping. This is what happened on 9-11. I'm playing all this because it is important to recognize what America's enemies are willing to do. And we'll get to what they believe in a second. But this is what they were willing to do. This is what they celebrated. People were dancing in the streets in certain places on planet Earth. Of course, there was a third plane that was American Airlines Flight 77 that impacted the Pentagon at 9-37 a.m. The 59 passengers and crew were killed instantly. 125 military and civilian personnel died inside the building as well. Here's some of the footage. Essentially the same as a missile hitting the Pentagon. The entire side of the Pentagon essentially blown out by the impact. The scene at the Pentagon after the impact, the footage, of course, incredibly upsetting. Go! Move! Move! Now!
Speaker 10But there were people that are still trapped in the building. And so I ran down to the doorway. I got a few feet inside. And I tripped over somebody. And I could feel there's what I think is a woman. Two army guys ran back in with me. And the three of us half dragged, half carried her just a few feet outside the building and laid her down again. Everybody out! Everybody out!
Speaker 4Again, all of this was happening moment by moment. Everybody in America was watching by this point. And then, of course, the horrifying sight of the South Tower collapsing at 9-59 a.m. Somewhere between 600 and 1,000 people dying inside the South Tower, including 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, 71 law enforcement officers. About 18 to 40 people at or above the impact zone survived by evacuating down stairwell A below the impact zone. About 6,000 people have been evacuated. before the collapse. The attacks happened before 9 a.m., which is when the main body of workers is going to show up at the building. But the footage, of course, is it still is horrifying.
Speaker 11Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Speaker 4And meanwhile, one of the great stories of heroism in American history was taking place aboard United Airlines Flight 93. That flight to the fourth plane had been hijacked, is likely headed for the Capitol building. And the passengers breached the cockpit and counterattacked the hijackers, forcing the plane to crash into an empty field at 560 miles per hour. All 40 of the passengers and crew died. It became an iconic moment in American history. Passenger Todd Beamer told the others, are you guys ready? Let's roll. It became a battle cry for Americans. The North Tower collapsed at 1028 a.m. Sixteen hundred people died inside the North Tower. Everyone above the impact zone died. Some 7400 people had been evacuated before the collapse. And that short period between the strikes and the collapse of the towers combined, almost 10,000 people were evacuated. Again, the horrors of the day are just emblazoned on everybody's memory from who was alive when this happened and has memory from when this happened. People were running from the tower collapses. The streets were covered in ash. Obviously, pretty much all of midtown Manhattan was a was a war zone. Lower Manhattan was a war zone.
Speaker 12I thought it was the third plane. No, the whole, the whole, the whole top came off. And then the smoke was on.
Speaker 13I was standing next to the lieutenant. And I couldn't, all of a sudden I couldn't see him. We were under the, we were under the, we were under the truck.
Speaker 4There were virtually no survivors. Only 20 people were pulled alive from the collapsed ruins. Here was President Bush at Ground Zero three days after 9-11.
Speaker 11I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. USA! USA! USA! USA!
Speaker 4Now, we don't, we do know precisely what happened with an extraordinary amount of, of detail. There's a full 9/11 commission report released in July 2016. 2004, of course, conspiracists will claim the report was rigged from the start and all this kind of nonsense. But the reality is that the commission did an incredibly thorough report. The report summarized institutional breakdowns before 9-11, the failures of intelligence to communicate with one another. The commission reviewed some 2.5 million pages of documents, interviewed 1,200 individuals, eventually accessed George W. Bush's daily briefs as well. The chief failure was the failure of imagination. People just did not think that Islamic terrorists could carry off anything of this size and scale. Also, the use of commercial jets as actual weapons as opposed to just hijacking commercial jets had not really been that never happened before. So there was a failure of imagination there. Terrorism was not regarded as a paramount national security concern before 9-11. Counterterrorism was treated as a law enforcement issue rather than as a foreign policy and intelligence issue. Our intelligence agencies failed. The FBI was more reactive than proactive. The CIA had been weakened. There was a Chinese firewall between the CIA and the FBI, so they could not share information. The FAA had a no-fly watch list. It had a grand total of 12 people on its total. None of the hijackers were on the list. Extra pre-screening would only withhold the hijackers luggage, but not their actual boarding materials. Blades and knives were permitted on board and flight crews were trained to cooperate with hijackers. Now, Al-Qaeda, which carried out the attacks, obviously had a strategy in the lead up to 9-11. Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, in 1998, declared it a religious duty for Muslims to kill Americans anywhere in the world, both military and civilian. And Al-Qaeda built a network of state sanctuaries during the 90s in Sudan, in Afghanistan, under the Taliban. Between 10 and 20,000 recruits passed through Al-Qaeda training camps at the time. And bin Laden began to shift focus from just regional terror to far enemy attack planning. The airplane plot was masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The cell of hijackers were radicalized in Germany, like Mohammed Atta, who we'll get to in a moment. Then they enrolled in U.S. flight schools in 2000. The USS Cole bombing in Yemen killed 17 U.S. sailors. In 2001, intelligence chatter spiked significantly, but there was no true actionable data regarding targets or dates at the time. Now, as we know, a wide variety of idiotic conspiracy theories have cropped up since the beginning of the war. The U.S. has been in power since 9-11. This happens in the wake of every American tragedy, but these ones have had a particularly long life. People claiming that there was controlled demolition that happened at the crash sites, despite the fact that there was zero trace of explosives at the crash sites, and the hijackers said openly they had a bomb. There is no evidence the hijackers brought bombs onto the planes after a review of airport security. You can't inconspicuously rig an entire building with bombs along its most fundamental steel infrastructure without being noticed. There are conspiracy theories on the collapse of the World Trade Center 7, which is a building nearby. An analysis was conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the collapse of WTC 7. They conducted a millisecond-by-millisecond analysis of the building's collapse. Even a small explosive charge capable of bringing down the building would have generated an extremely loud sound nobody heard that day. It was not recorded on any of the footage from that day. The collapse of WTC 7 is a conspiracy theory. The U.S. has been in power since 9-11. WTC 7 was a result of the collapse of the North Tower, which ejected flaming heavy debris that struck that building, severing exterior columns and igniting fires on 10 different floors. And the structural steel in World Trade Center 7 did not need to reach extreme temperatures to fail because steel beams heated and expanded that pushed girders out of alignment and set off a cascade of flooring failures. Again, there are a wide variety of conspiracy theories here, and all of them are nonsense. They are just nonsense. Now we get to the ideology behind all of this. We know why Osama bin Laden did this. It is not a mystery. The answer is that Osama bin Laden was a terrorist devotee of Islam. That is the reason. This does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists or that all Muslims agreed with Osama bin Laden, but this is why Osama bin Laden did this. Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to America in 2002, and essentially the letter can be broken down into two parts, the excuse-making and the real reason. Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to America in 2002, and essentially the letter can be broken down into two parts, the excuse-making and the real reason. Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to America in 2002, and essentially the letter can be broken down into two parts, the excuse-making and the real reason. The excuse-making is about how Muslims everywhere are victims of America, and it's nonsense. It's not true. It is factually untrue. It is a victim mentality unsupportable by the evidence. The real reason Osama bin Laden did this is because he was a Muslim fundamentalist who believes that everyone in the world ought to convert to Islam. In his letter to America, he wrote the following, quote, These governments, he's talking about Muslim governments, give us a taste of humiliation and place us in a large prison of fear and subdual. These governments have surrendered to the Jews and had in the most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people. Your forces occupy our countries. You spread your military bases throughout them. You corrupt our lands. You besiege our sanctities to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures. You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. Yet when 3,000 of your people die, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace? So that's part one, the excuse making. As we'll get to, this has become quite popular among a large percentage of Americans. Then there's the actual reason that Osama bin Laden did this. Quote, what are we calling you to? And what do we want from you? The first thing we are calling you to is Islam, the religion of the unification of God, of freedom from associating partners with him and rejection of this, of complete love of him, the exalted, of complete submission to his laws, and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories, and religions which contradict with the religion he sent down to his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Islam is the religion of all the prophets and makes no distinction between them, peace be upon them all. It is saddening to tell you, you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind. You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the sharia of Allah, and its constitution and laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms absolute authority to the Lord and your creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you. How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create his creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they're most in need of, knowledge of the laws which govern their lives? In other words, Islam as governing philosophy. That is what he wanted. That is what he wanted. And he knew one thing. He knew that the West did not have the stones to actually stand up on its hind legs and say that we have a civilization worth preserving and defending, that eventually we would retire and we would become stupid. That was his premise. He said it out loud in 2010. He said, first of all, I would like to say that your war with us is the longest war in your history and the most expensive for you financially. As for us, we see it as being only halfway finished. If you were to ask our wise thinkers, they would tell you there is no way to win it because the indications are against it. How will you win a war whose leaders are pessimistic and whose soldiers are committing suicide? If fear enters the hearts of men, winning the war becomes impossible. How will you win a war whose cost is like a hurricane blowing violently at your economy and weakening your dollar? So again, it was a dual purpose approach for Osama bin Laden. Why was he doing this? Because everybody needed to embrace Islam and the prophet Muhammad. And then the excuse making, which is that somehow he, a very, very, very wealthy Saudi citizen originally, was somehow a victim of the United States government and the West in general. Here he was in 1997 talking about the supposed predations of the U.S. government.
Speaker 14The U.S. government has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal through its support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. And we believe the U.S. is directly responsible for those killed in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. Due to its subordination to the Jews, the arrogance of the United States regime has reached the point that they occupied Arabia, the holiest place of the Muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today. For this and other acts of aggression and injustice, we have declared jihad against the U.S. Now, at this point,
Speaker 4we should point out that all of this is nonsense. The United States had in the decades leading up to 9-11 fought alongside the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to push out the USSR and then withdrawn and the Taliban took over. The United States had intervened in the 90s in the Bosnian civil war to stop the Bosniak slaughter of Muslims. The United States did the same thing in Kosovo to protect the Muslim Albanian population. The United States had joined with Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to thwart Saddam Hussein, a supposed secularist, from taking over Kuwait in the first Gulf War. The United States had, over the course of the 1990s, pressed and forced Israel into a wide variety of territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority and its arch-terrorist leader, Yasser Arafat. The United States in the 1980s had withdrawn from Lebanon completely after the murder of Marines by Hezbollah in Lebanon. If anything, American appeasement of Muslims in the Middle East and a desire to work alongside some Muslim state actors led Osama bin Laden to his thesis that America was weak. After 9-11, many Muslims in the Middle East knew all this and celebrated. September 12th, 2001, here's NBC showing footage of the war. Footage of the reaction to 9-11 in the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 15the West Bank. These are Palestinian celebrations in the wake of Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States. Apparently Palestinians took to the street, chanting "God is great." People were throwing candy, distributing candy to passersby. The U.S. government, obviously, has become increasingly unpopular, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, because Palestinians feel that the U.S. government has sided with Israel. One man, Nawal Abdel Fattah, wearing a long black dress, threw sweets in the air, saying, actually, that's a woman, pardon me, saying she was happy because, quote, "America is the head of the snake."
Speaker 4Our enemies thought we were weak. They thought that we would blind ourselves to reality. And as it turns out, over the subsequent 25 years, they were not wrong. They were not wrong at all. Just days after September 11, 2012, the U.S. government has decided that the U.S. government is not a threat to the U.S. and the U.S. government is not a threat to the U.S. and the U.S. government is not a threat to the U.S. and the U.S. government. In September 2011, the president of the United States appeared at the Islamic Center of Washington flanked by members of groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, which would later be an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. And there, he would explain that Islam was a religion of peace.
Speaker 16These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. It's important for my fellow Americans to understand that. The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran itself. In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that, they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule. The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace.
Speaker 4By saying this, and many things like it, President Bush essentially defanged the entire Western movement against our actual enemies. This doesn't mean every Muslim is an enemy, but if you want to make the argument that our enemies hate American freedom, you need to explain why they hated American freedom and what motivated them. And that motivation was right there. But instead, President Bush was a believer in a false idea that all human beings all over the planet believe the same kinds of things, that we are all at root exactly the same in our orientation toward the world. Which is why at the U.N. General Assembly in 2004, President Bush incorrectly stated that "freedom beats in every human heart." This is untrue. Not every human being on planet Earth is oriented toward freedom the way that Westerners believe in freedom.
Speaker 16People everywhere are capable of freedom and worthy of freedom. Finding the full promise of representative government takes time, as America has found in two centuries of debate and struggle. Nor is there any, only one form of representative government. And that is not true. Because democracies, by definition, take on the unique character of the peoples that create them. Yet this much we know with certainty, the desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls or martial laws or secret police.
Speaker 4That was not true. Not remotely. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who grew up as a Muslim, in a Muslim Brotherhood-run system in Kenya, has a piece of Tablet Magazine talking about Muhammad Atta. Muhammad Atta was one of the hijackers, one of the more famous hijackers, and he left the last will and testament. And that last will and testament did not talk about victimization of Muslims worldwide. All it was, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, was a young man in a German apartment arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come. The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the Al-Quds Mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where four years later, he would meet the men he would die with. The document is among his most neglected pieces of evidence, from September 11th, because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Muhammad Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an Islamist. Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for. She talks about being raised as a Muslim in Kenya, quote, my teachers also introduced me to the greater enemies of Islam, the great Satan being in the United States of America, and the little Satan being Israel, the Jewish state. Distinction was made between Israel as a state and Jews, who embodied a type of metaphysical evil. The Jew was synonymous with the word Satan, who's behind all evil things and had designated Islam and Muslims as his enemy, and was hell-bent on destroying us all. In our prayers, and in all of our dua, is the supplication that God would destroy and eliminate the Jews. Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes, Islam is not an Abrahamic faith that functions anything like Protestant Christianity or Rabbinic Judaism. There is no equivalent in Islamic doctrine for such foundational Western concepts as the separation of church and state, secular law, or the idea of individual freedoms and rights, including the freedom to worship freely. Rather, Islam is animated by the beliefs that the Muslim world suffered a historical dispossession with the abolition of the caliphate, and that this loss must eventually be reversed, including the retaking of all lands that have ever been ruled by Muslims. In the temporal sphere, Islam as much resembles totalizing an irredentist political ideologies as it does a religion. In the frame in which both ordinary Muslims and their self-appointed political spokesmen see the world, America and the wider West are not just geopolitical rivals, they are civilizational obstacles, powers that uphold a secular, liberal, and post-califal order that Islamists seek to overcome. Americans have been lied to, been taught the opposite of this for literally a generation. And so now, here is what they think. According to Pew Research Polling, in 2002, 23% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans said that Islam is not an Abrahamic faith. In 2002, 23% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans said that Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence. That is a rather low percentage, given the facts on the ground across planet Earth. In 2004, 42% of Democrats and 56% of Republicans said that Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence. Today, only about a quarter of Democrats consistently say that Islam encourages violence more than other religions, while about two-thirds of Republicans to three-quarters say that Islam encourages violence more than other religions. This is what 25 years of propaganda has wrought. Again, this is not saying that every Muslim is violent or every Muslim believes violent things, but to pretend that Islam as a political governing philosophy or as practiced across planet Earth is a moderating and liberating force would be to ignore the facts on the ground. We'll get to more on this in just one second. First, let's talk about eating healthy for a second. So, eating healthy, it's tough. And you go to the grocery store and you're like, you know what I need? I need this many fruits and this many vegetables. I need this many veggies. I'm going to buy all of it and put it in my fridge. And then you look at it a week later and it's all wilted and gross because it turns out that actually you're not going to do any of that, especially when you, like I am, are balancing five children, work chores, keeping up with the news, everyday life. Balance of Nature makes consistency easier. 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Meanwhile, of course, in our modern propaganda era, his enemies are more than happy to not only promote but fabricate alleged Western atrocities against Muslims. So here's the deal. When you refuse to acknowledge the reality of Islam's role in geopolitics, people are left to speculate about the motives behind acts like 9-11. And then they glom onto precisely the sort of materialistic worldview that Osama bin Laden was counting on. The idea that only if the United States, if only the U.S. and the West weren't so mean and cruel and interventionist, then there'd be no problem. The world would have been hunky-dory. 9-11 never would have happened. Thus, the post-9-11 measures taken by the Bush administration were never seen as a fully justified attempt to destroy the regime-based foundations of political Islam. You know, the regimes that supported political Islam and promoted terrorism because Islam was never associated with anything bad. It was a religion of peace. Instead, it was just a cycle of violence. We intervene, they respond. We intervene, they respond. That's a lie, but it became a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very important to the American people.
Speaker 17We intervene, they respond. We intervene, they respond. That's a lie, but it became a very, mind to me that terrorism has been sold as this idea to the american people and honestly just so many western inhabitants within certain nations that this group of people this random group of people just suddenly wakes up one day and just hates you just wants you dead wants you gone and this is all because they believe that they're better than like that is the root of terrorism it doesn't make sense they just hate your nation but reading this letter it becomes apparent to me that the actions of 9-11 and those acts committed against the usa and its people were all just the build-up of our government failing other nations
Speaker 4and this has become quite the popular review now again she and the rest of the tiktok generation are reading the excuse making part of the bin laden letter they're ignoring the part where he says what he wants everybody to do he wants this genderqueer person with the nose ring to convert to islam and be subject to the whims of sharia law you - and again this has become popular throughout the west which is why the current mayor of new york tweeted in 2023 three years ago on 9-11 quote nearly 3 000 new yorkers died on 9-11 22 years later the death hasn't stopped we mourn our neighbors who died that day the hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed the unknown millions injured and displaced in their memory we work toward a better world so again you have no idea why new yorkers died on 9-11 but it resulted in terrible american action which was massive markedly worse than 9-11 it's all just part of a broader cycle of violence really driven by american foreign policy and of course this is why there is no lack of solidarity between say zora mamdani and hassan piker it is also why hassan piker openly says americans don't really care about 9-11 it's just an excuse
Speaker 18you see it's very clear that right now most people in the united states of america even like older conservatives are not going to care about 9-11 because they're not going to care about 9-11 because they're not going to care about 9-11 because they don't necessarily care about uh 9-11 they'll they'll lie to you if you were to call them out on this issue they'd be like how dare you say such a thing of course we do shut the up right um they would lie to you easily and maybe even lie to themselves they don't really care they don't really care hassan piker by the
Speaker 4saying all this with the newspaper of the towers being struck by the airliners in the background of the studio alongside the chinese and cuban flags according to hassan piker the only reason that americans talk about 9-11 is because they want to weaponize it against muslims which is truly an incredible statement given the fact that the people who committed the 9-11 attack were doing
Speaker 18so in the name of islam they were not hiding the ball so remember when these guys talk about 9-11 and how much they care about the patriotism how much they care about the victims it's all bullshit the only thing they care about is using 9-11 to weaponize against the entire muslim world to
Speaker 4weaponize against muslim americans and of course abdul al-sayyad the democrats chosen nominee for the senate in michigan back in 2021 after putting out a tweet very much like that of zarmandani on 9-11 he also suggested again and it's all just part of a cycle of violence you see and really if you go back to the beginning of the cycle of violence it was all just part of a cycle of violence it was the west that caused all of this
Speaker 199-11 scarred our country in profound ways but what we did after 9-11 scarred millions of other people when we talk about 9-11 we often fail to center them again when you don't label the
Speaker 4ideological enemy that caused 9-11 you end up in this world because again assume for a second that everyone believes like you everybody is similarly committed to secular materialist values everybody just wants freedom and peace and live with their families in harmony in the way that you do what would cause them to fly a plane into a building it must have been something that we did that must have been it this is what happens when you project your own mentality onto an irredentist philosophy that has not changed for some 1400 years in practice for the vast majority of practitioners on planet earth and in any governing country in which it rules this of course is not this this nonsense is not only picked up by the left has of course been picked up by the horseshoe right as well literally on the 25th anniversary of 9-11 tucker carlson i've been informed by really important people is a valuable voice within conservatism for some reason no one can seem to explain to me he put out a statement in his newsletter defending abdul el sayed quote everyone agrees the terrorist attack on september 11 2001 was the worst crime ever committed on u.s soil thousands of innocents died skyscrapers crashed to the ground untold numbers of first responders continue to endure the long-term health consequences of inhaling toxic air at ground zero but that is not the whole story your typical fox news viewer says tucker carlson is likely oblivious to this but america's response to 9-11 blew the original attack out of the water that's right full moral equation between the united states and al-qaeda george w bush's subsequent war in iraq which made no sense considering iraq did not do 9-11 that hundreds of thousands of innocents killed had tens of thousands of american military casualties and catalyzed the creation of isis that means the united states slaughtered enough civilians to account for dozens and dozens of 9-11s and that is a conservative estimate and then he quotes precisely that audio we just played from abdul el sayed quote 2021 audio of michigan senate candidate abdul el sayed acknowledging this stomach churning reality resurfaced this week revealing that he understands the basic concept that murdering hundreds of thousands of people is bad and then he quotes the comments he says there is nothing remotely crazy about these remarks as tucker carlson they're approximately as scandalous as a weatherman declaring that clouds carry rainwater el sayed didn't celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead al-qaeda he simply said the united states conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9-11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction he is obviously right and then of course he rips into mike rogers for saying the opposite because he would like to see the pro-jihadist win in michigan tucker carlson this is what happens when a country refuses to defend its own civilization and labels the chief ideology of his enemies peace turns out that that's a terrible idea now conspiracism about 9-11 is part and parcel of all this if it turns out that not only was 9-11 blowback but the 9-11 wasn't even done by muslims at all it turns out that america isn't just the bad guy it is a victim of a massive conspiracy by unspecified others we'll let you guess whom now again if you wonder about the radicalism of muslims in the west here is a piece of information in 2009 pew asked american muslims who is behind 9-11 only four in 10 muslim americans accepted that groups of arabs carried out 9-11 28 rejected it 32 offered no answer by the way the proportionality there is significantly lower if they are heavily practicing muslims the more religious you are the more you believe conspiracy theory is about 9-11 this also happens to be true about support for hamas tucker carlson of course is a full-blown conspiracy theorist about 9-11 as well as well as everything else by the way he's not the only one emerson college polling shows 25 percent of people believe that the government helped plan the attacks of 9-11 a quarter of americans when asked who is responsible for the 9-11 attacks only 24 percent of people said al-qaeda or osama bin laden 19 percent said terrorists or extremists that is 43 percent total everybody else said either the u.s government something else or did not know again this is what happens when you frontally lobotomize your entire civilization in the name of tolerance rather than just telling the truth about the world as it stands so what have we gotten on the 25th anniversary of 9-11 what have we gotten here ignorant here is franklin andres camargo interviewing college students in los
Speaker 12angeles as to who did 9-11 9-11 does it sound familiar to you i know what happened black i was really boring tin towers collapsed
Speaker 20i know some very bad people flew two planes into our trade centers in new york do you know who
Speaker 12attacked us um as far as i know not really i wasn't really educated much on it i try to do research they it was oh my god my boyfriend's a lot about history we literally talked about this
Speaker 20you know the name of the group i forgot the specific group who did that but so it was
Speaker 21al-qaeda al-qaeda yeah you're right yep yep well from what i'm told it's a terrorist organization but there's a lot of contention on that al-qaeda do you know what religion did they all practice
Speaker 12um to be honest i do not remember i'm not really into religion myself so all right tell me the
Speaker 21letter first letter and uh i i i yeah so they're radical they are in the middle east okay they attacked america okay and the religion starts with that with an eye an eye oh my gosh i want
Speaker 12to say something i don't want to sound retarded just say israel again none of this is particularly
Speaker 4shocking because we have decided we're not going to talk about this stuff this is a conspiracy of silence that has been blanketed across america for the last 25 years if you mention this if you mention the word islam in connection with 9-11 you're immediately labeled an islamophobe and you are told that you are somehow putting in danger peaceful muslims across the united states that is not true it is not true islam as a governing philosophy on planet earth where there are muslim majority countries freedom recedes liberty recedes the belief system hell is not true islam is being held by a huge percentage of muslims across planet earth and a heavy percentage in the as well, is not conciliatory with basic ideas of the West, like separation of church and state and freedom of religion. That is just a reality. Again, this does not mean that there aren't Muslims who don't support terrorism. There are lots of Muslims who don't support terrorism. It does not mean that there aren't some moderate or reform Muslims out there. There are some, and I hope they win. I truly hope they win. But if you don't name the problem, if you say that Islam is currently practiced across planet Earth in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia is a moderating force, there is no actual movement toward moderation. So instead, we've decided that we're just not going to talk about it. We're just not going to talk about it. Ami Horowitz went out and surveyed people in New York City about 9-11 and again, similar ignorance.
Speaker 22Like, I think that we did 9-11 to ourselves to fight with the Middle East. I would. I would agree with her. Okay. Would you call 9-11 a terrorist attack?
Speaker 23I think it was like an act of war.
Speaker 19I would say it's an act of violence.
Speaker 22Act of violence?
Speaker 19Yeah.
Speaker 22Not a terrorist attack?
Speaker 19No, I mean, if that's a terrorist attack, then so was America's terrorist attack on any other country that we've gone on.
Speaker 22So would you agree that that was more freedom fighters? Yeah, I would say yes. Not terrorist attack?
Speaker 23Yeah. I do understand, like, as like the mindset of like why that'd be like a freedom fight. Like, I get that like mindset.
Speaker 24Terror attacks in general are kind of used. They're used as a weapon to discredit various people of color.
Speaker 4It's 9-11. What are we most likely to get? Well, probably for most people, we'll get empty words. We'll get specious explanations of what led to 9-11. And it must have been our military bases in Saudi Arabia, or maybe it was our policy with regard to Israel. Certainly, it had to be the West doing something bad or no explanation at all. It's just a mystery. Poof, 3,000 people died. We'll get tweets about an unspecified tragedy that occurred. For some unspecified reason. You had tweets from Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York. Quote, on this 25th anniversary, we should honor those we lost by coming together again as New Yorkers and Americans. Division should not prevail over the spirit of unity that brought us together after September 11th. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Deep down, everybody who lived through 9-11 and anybody with a semblance of capacity to think knows the truth about who did 9-11 and what they still believe. And that there are legitimately tens of millions of people. Who agree with the basic worldview of those people. That is a reality. There's a reason that 9-11 families were pleading with Zorin Mamdani to stay away from the 25th memorial ceremony.
Speaker 25Please do not attend the 25th anniversary September 11th commemoration at the World Trade Center. Our petition is not about Mayor Mamdani's religion or where he came from. It is strictly about the policies that he... He has today.
Speaker 13So we are asking him to respect the fact that that trauma is revived during the ceremony. It is a private ceremony. It is not a public ceremony. Mayor Mamdani, please do not come.
Speaker 4Well, again, we have become unacquainted with reality, but it's time to reacquaint ourselves. Because all of the things that we have done. And since those are ongoing problems, importing millions of people from parts of the world that despise America is a horrible, horrible idea. And we have done that. Pretending that terrorists all over the world are simply responding to American cruelty leads to American weakness. It is foolishness. Now, there's some people in the U.S. who wish to keep promoting this foolishness. The Fairfax County Public Schools have told teachers not to link 9-11 with Islam in any way, according to Fox News. They're advising teachers not to link 9-11 with radical Islam. Not even... Islam generally, radical Islam even. And to be sure to create safe spaces for Muslim students, as the nation somberly marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. Instead, they issued a six-page instructional guide to teachers that suggested that people emphasize humanity, hope, and unity. Don't associate the 9-11 attacks with Islam or Muslims. Or censor the extremists or the acts of extremists. It's a very different thing from what the Texas Board of Education... has now proved. The board approved language asserting that radical Islam motivated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Rather than taking a more narrow focus on the terrorist groups involved in the attack. The material also requires students to study early Islam through Prophet Muhammad's brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes. The normalization of slavery and the taking of female captives as harem slaves. Of course, Council on American Islamic Relations is very, very upset about all of this. So, here's the deal. If we wish for an America... that is strong enough to withstand its enemies, that starts with a willingness to speak hard truths. Difficult truths. Truths. Yes. Islam, as currently implemented on planet Earth broadly and politically, is a global threat to Western values. It has been a global threat to those values for some 1,400 years. Again, this does not mean that every Muslim is a threat. There are lots of Muslims who want to live in peace as good citizens of the West. There are some who want to moderate their regimes. It doesn't mean... I mean, there can't be Muslim regimes that moderate over time. I'm hoping that we're seeing that right now from some of the regimes in the Middle East, like UAE. It also doesn't mean that we have to engage in global regime change wars requiring massive, costly interventions for decades. Pragmatic solutions vary to specific problems. But if we refuse to acknowledge who did 9-11 and why they did it and what the overall problem is, we will then import it. And that is what we have done. Not only that, our enemies will perceive our weakness. Every great Islamic community... Every Islamic terror leader has the same theory. That even if their terrorist attacks provoke a Western response, the West is, in the end, too weak in its own principles to fight the hard fights, too attached to material comforts to sacrifice on behalf of truth. They bet that the West will eventually exhaust itself and give up. Bin Laden said, quote, America is definitely a great power with unbelievable military strength and a vibrant economy. But all of these have been built on a very weak and hollow foundation. But here is the thing. That foundation can be rebuilt. All that is required is to tell the truth. That is all that is required to build the truth. Now, since 9-11, our fighting men and women did their job. They did their job. The heroes of 9-11 did their job. The American people were willing to do their job. And we were failed by a political class that preferred to tell itself comforting lies. Comfortable lies. Our political and moral leadership failed us. So, we must rebuild. We must rebuild that foundation. If we don't rebuild that foundation, Osama Bin Laden gets what he always wanted. A weak and hollow West, ready to come down at the touch of a bomb or a button. All righty, folks. You think the show is over? Well, no. I'll be taking your questions coming up again. You have to be a member. Become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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