9/11

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“Tomorrow is September 11th. And every year around this time, it seems that any honest conversation about Islamic ideology is labeled "Islamophobia."

So let me start with what I'm NOT saying.

I'm not saying your Muslim neighbor is responsible for 9/11. I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists. I'm not saying individual Muslims can't be wonderful, peaceful people. Many are.

What I AM saying is that there is a conversation the Western world needs to have, and it's not about individual people. It's about what hundreds of millions of Muslims believe.

Here are the facts and numbers...

Pew Research surveyed 38,000 Muslims across 39 countries. Here's what they found.

In Afghanistan, 99% want Sharia to be the official law of the land. In Iraq, 91%. In Pakistan, 84%. In Egypt, 74%.

Among those who support Sharia as official law, solid majorities in multiple countries support the death penalty for leaving Islam. 86% in Egypt. 79% in Afghanistan. 76% in Pakistan. Majorities in those same countries also support stoning adulterers.

So these aren't fringe extremists hiding in caves. These are mainstream beliefs held by hundreds of millions of Muslims.

Now here's the question that makes people upset… 

What happens when you import these beliefs into Western democracies through mass immigration without any serious expectation of assimilation?

We don't have to guess…

▸ At an Al-Quds Day rally in Dearborn, Michigan in 2024, crowds chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" on American soil while a speaker praised the founder of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

▸ In Hamtramck, Michigan, the first all-Muslim city council in American history was elected in 2021. Progressives celebrated it as a triumph of diversity and inclusion. In 2023, that same council unanimously banned Pride flags from public property. 

▸ In New York, Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage by an American-born Hezbollah sympathizer attempting to fulfill a 33-year-old Iranian fatwa.

And across Europe, the pattern is further along.

▸ Two teachers have been murdered at school (Samuel Paty was beheaded in 2020 and Dominique Bernard was stabbed to death in 2023) both targeted by Islamic extremists for lessons involving free expression.

▸ In England, A teacher at Batley Grammar School has been living under an assumed name in permanent police protection since 2021 after receiving death threats for showing a Muhammad caricature in a religious studies class.

▸ In Rotherham and Telford: Exploitation gangs abused thousands of young girls while police and council officials ignored the crimes for over a decade out of fear of being labeled "racist" or "Islamophobic."

▸ In Denmark: In 2023, the government formally reinstated a national blasphemy law criminalizing the desecration of religious texts after riots and terror threats made protecting absolute free speech politically untenable.

These aren't isolated incidents. They're a pattern with a common thread...

Wherever these beliefs reach critical mass, free speech contracts, women's rights erode, institutional cowardice takes hold, and anyone who notices is called a bigot.

And here's what makes this so frustrating.

Many of the same voices constantly sounding the alarm about "Christian nationalism" in America look right past all of this.

Conservative Christians in America aren't beheading teachers, issuing fatwas, or forcing Western governments to bring back blasphemy laws. They're advocating their moral values through constitutional elections and civil courts... and for that, they get labeled theocratic threats.

If you're genuinely terrified of religion running the state, it makes zero sense to ignore the one religious framework on earth actively doing it, enforcing it by statute, executing people under it, and commanding massive popular support.

Remembering September 11th means remembering what happened. But it also means being honest about the ideology that motivated it, and how widespread those beliefs remain today among hundreds of millions of people.

Calling that "Islamophobia" doesn't make it go away.”