9/11: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
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...
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...
Fortunately, America still has the 567-page bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. government account of how the attacks succeeded, and still unflinchingly tells us why the perpetrators carried them out...
Here are some of the 9/11 Commission’s most pertinent excerpts for teachers, speakers, and writers who will dare to invoke them in the coming weeks:
- "... Bin Ladin and other Islamist terrorist leaders draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within one stream of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from religion, thus distorting both. It is not a position with which Americans can bargain or negotiate...
- "Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought..
- "Many Americans have wondered, 'Why do "they" hate us?' Bin Ladin’s grievance with the United States may have started in reaction to specific U.S. policies but it quickly became far deeper. Al-Qaeda’s answer was that America should abandon the Middle East, convert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture."
- "In February 1998 … Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, … called for the murder of any American, anywhere on Earth, as the 'individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.'"...
Teachers, parents, elected leaders, and the media do a disservice to the republic by hop-skipping past the religious “why” behind 9/11...
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