I have spent a lot of time reading up on the September 11 terror attacks as part of my work on the "American Heroes of 9/11" series, and I've shared my experiences on that day, which is forever burned into my memory. For me, it's akin to what the Kennedy assassination was to my parents: an indelible part of their childhoods.
September 11 happened for one reason and one reason only: Islamists hate America. It was not deserved, as Hasan Piker said. It was not justified retribution for American foreign policy. It was a terrorist attack on an unprecedented — but not unheard of — scale. Islamists hit the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six. Around the world, Islamists have carried out attacks against American troops, their fellow Muslims, Christians in Africa, Jews in Israel and any demographic group they can get their hands on. They pretty much hate all of us, and killing us is, in their view, a justified and mandatory part of the faith.
We as a society rightly shun and criticize Holocaust deniers. We should do the same to those who deny, or downplay, the September 11 terrorist attacks, too. If that means Muslims like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Syed, so be it.
In 2023, Mamdani — before he became mayor of New York City – did just that, simply saying that almost 3,000 New Yorkers "died" that day and tying it to wars.
Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn't stopped.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) September 11, 2023
We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced.
In their memory, we work toward a better world.
This is, of course, a tacit admission that September 11 was an act of war. But it also tries to tie an act of terror to the wars that followed. Whatever your view on the War on Terror, the fact remains it was retaliatory for the act of war committed 25 years ago. An act of war that was wholly unjustified and targeted civilians, while the War on Terror targeted, well, terrorists.
Meanwhile, it's a total mystery why families of victims don't want this guy showing his face at the upcoming memorial. His mere presence insults their loved ones.
Then, of course, there's El-Sayed, who reportedly deleted several problematic posts about September 11. But screenshots are eternal, and this one's a doozy.
Hating America seems to be a pattern with these two… https://t.co/OxkaFenYNN pic.twitter.com/W7P3lnfvrV
— Tim Sheehy (@TimSheehyMT) August 31, 2026
Ah, yes.
We all remember September 11 for the "infrastructural devastation" and not the people who died horrible deaths.
This is not the post of some ill-informed teen who was brainwashed by TikTok. These were both adult men: one running the nation's biggest city and the other trying to win a seat in the Senate. El-Sayed's post was written just five years ago; Mamdani's just three. They knew what they were doing.
CBS and the Left want us to think criticizing them is somehow Islamophobic. No, it's not. It's pointing out that the people who profess the same ideology as those who killed innocent Americans 25 years ago think that the terror attack was no big deal, or that it was simply casualties of war.
The people in the World Trade Center, the people on those planes, were not enemy combatants. They were not soldiers. They were civilians. Some of them were children; one was a toddler going to Disney for the first time.
And they were slaughtered. They didn't die. They were murdered in an act of terrorism.
To frame it in any other way is not just an insult to their memory and to those who survived. And it makes you wholly unfit for office.
