The Eternal Op Continues: "25 years after 9/11, many Muslims fear a new backlash"

The Real Victims of 9/11 were Muslims.

Just like the Real Victims of the conquests of Spain, Constantinople, and the Balkans were the Muslims.

The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, began like any other day. Sabinah Mohyuddin was getting her kids ready for school in Clarksville, Tennessee, while her husband, a cancer physician, was still asleep.

Then the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

"I remember when it happened, because my husband always put his alarm to National Public Radio," she said. "He came running out shouting, 'Turn on the TV!'"

It wasn't clear whether the first strike was intentional. After dropping her kids off, Mohyuddin watched in horror as a second plane crashed into the south tower.

She and the rest of the nation waited in petrified anticipation for answers about who was behind the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Then Mohyuddin, a Muslim, learned the hijakers also followed Islam.

"It fell on me like a heavy weight," she said. "What did this mean for the Muslim community? What did this mean for me?"

Making it all about you, and not even hiding it.

Now, 25 years after the attacks, Muslims across the country are asking the same question as they experience rising Islamophobia and concerns about their First Amendment right to religious freedom.

Over 40% of U.S. adults believe Muslims are less patriotic than other Americans and that Muslim Americans are having a negative impact on the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in May.

Obviously far-right racists. There is no reason to think that there is an intense anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Jewish strain in Islam, except, you know, for all the terrorist attacks and constant verbal attacks on the west.

But other than that -- no evidence. Must be racism.

The stigmatization, often amplified by politicians, has affected everything from immigration statuses to due process rights and everyday religious practices. Muslim leaders and community members, in turn, told the USA TODAY Network they're left fighting to defend their faith and warning the nation that its founding principles are at stake.

"Being Muslim doesn't make me less American," Salam Jabaieh, a Muslim woman from Arizona, said. "Those things are part of who I am, and I shouldn't have to make myself less visible or less Muslim in order to prove I belong here."

In the days after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush made public statements defending Islam and differentiating the faith from the attack.

He quoted from the Quran and said "Islam is peace" during remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC. Bush also met with Islamic leaders, including Nihad Awad, national executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR was established in 1994 and is the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization.

Though Awad disagreed with many of Bush's policy positions, he told USA TODAY he saw "sincerity" and "openness" from Bush, a desire for unity amid the devastation.

But the violence that plagued Muslims and mosques in the days and years after 9/11 stood in stark contrast to those sentiments.

The first 9/11-linked hate crime came just a few days later, when an Arizona man murdered Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man who wore a turban the shooter interpreted as a sign he adhered to Islam. Muslims were killed in attacks that family members and advocacy groups tied to the spike in Islamophobia. A number of mosques were also burned to the ground or severely damaged in arson fires.

Note there are no numbers mentioned here. "Muslims" -- no number given -- "were killed in attacks." "A number of mosques" were damaged in fires.

How many?

Not many at all, or else you'd tell us the numbers.

By the way, a lot of churches are burning lately and the media doesn't seem to think that's a sign of rising ant-Christian animus.

Now comes the media's "Bush was a good man tryin' his best but Trump is a monster turn:"

But Muslim leaders described a notable shift when President Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015. He initiated what became known as the "Muslim ban" during his first term and has taken similar action since returning to office.

Federal authorities have arrested and sought to deport pro-Palestinian activists, actions that judges have deemed a First Amendment violation.

"Activists." Members of the Muslim Brotherhood openly calling for violence against Jews and Americans.

Some Republican leaders also have used rhetoric and pushed policies that have come under criticism by Muslim Americans and others. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR a terrorist group in 2025, which initially excluded a number of Islamic schools from a state-sponsored voucher program because of perceived affiliation with the organization, according to a lawsuit. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also issued the designation, which a federal judge struck down in March.

Such action by governors has had a trickle-down effect on local municipalities and school boards, according to Adam Abutaa, of the Muslim civic engagement organization Emgage Florida. Muslim students are less likely to feel they can freely express themselves on their campuses or to their elected officials, he said.

Really? Muslims feel they can't fully express themselves on campus?

We've seen Jews beaten by Muslims on campus. They want to "express themselves" further than that?

Saajid Khan, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, echoed those sentiments. He was one of several students who were praying in a parking garage on campus in November 2025 when several men disrupted them, shouting profanities and taunting them with bacon − a forbidden food in Islam. The men were later charged over the incident.

"I think there's a lot of propaganda pushed against Muslims, which leads to an unsafe environment," Khan said.

There's a single incident of Muslims being "taunted with bacon."

How many incidents are there of non-Muslims being taunted with bullets and explosives?

Stephen Kruiser:

The number of Americans who are dishonoring those killed by Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001 is tragic and abominable. This is from a VIP post Catherine wrote over the weekend:

My colleague Robert Spencer, an expert in Islamic history and modern jihad movements, says that there have been 49,000 Islamic jihad attacks since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. And yet only 25 years after those attacks, with nearly 50,000 terrorist incidents attributable to Islam in the time period, New York has a Muslim mayor and Americans in all 50 states claim to support Palestinian terrorists. We even have U.S. administrations funding jihadi regimes and removing terror designations from Syrian mass murderers. It's insane.

Insane and heartbreaking.

There was a brief time of unity back in 2001 that has been followed up by a quarter-century of American leftists being apologists for Islam. They're either rabid supporters of jihadi murderers or dealing with a case of mass denial the likes of which has never been seen in history. The leftists' responses to Islamic terror attacks have become routine sick jokes. We're constantly told that motives are "unclear" when "Allahu Akbar!" was the last thing people heard before they were killed. If you're sane and mention that there just might be a pattern, they all start barking "Timothy McVeigh" like trained seals.

I frequently write about the fact that American leftists live in an alternate, fictional reality. One of the biggest fictions that they peddle is that Islamic terrorism isn't a problem, but the white Christians are a powder keg that's ready to blow. It's wearisome and dangerous. When Democrats are in charge, they're never looking for the real bad guys.

In another VIP post from last weekend, Robert wrote about what we can expect from the lunatic left this week:

Friday, September 11 will be the 25th anniversary of the jihad attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and the far left's propaganda arm, the establishment media, is already hard at work repeating the lesson that leftists want us to take away from this grim milestone: It was all our fault. And now, "Islamophobia" is worse than ever, underscoring the left's second big takeaway from 9/11: Muslims were the real victims.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

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🚨 WOW! 9/11 families are on the steps of NYC city hall DEMANDING Mayor Mamdani stay FAR AWAY from the 25th anniversary ceremony on Friday

"Dude, we DO NOT want you to come," a victim's daughter, who was nine years old when her father was kiIIed, said

"It is today that he stands with people like Hassan Piker. It is today that he hires people like Ramzi Kassem. It is today that he stands with an imam that was a CO-CONSPIRATOR of the '93 bombing. THAT is what we object to."

Zohran Mamdani wants to spike the football in the end zone.

Overton @overton_news

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The Catholic League President Bill Donohue just took NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the woodshed in front of a crowd...and it was BRUTAL.

Donohue said Mamdani is more concerned about "Islamophobia" than he is about the death of 3,000 innocent Americans.

Whoa.

DONOHUE: "Thank you, Bill Donohue, President of Catholic League."

"On that fateful day, 9/11, I looked out my window on 34th Street and 7th Avenue and saw the twin towers go down."

"I'm a veteran, United States veteran, I don't have a lot to say about Zohran Mamdani."

"He should not be here. I wrote him a letter on August 3rd...explaining why he is such a divisive figure."

"He said that 'something happened' on 9/11."

"I'll tell you what happened...radical Muslims came in here to bomb the United States of America."

"I don't say Muslims, because that's wrong. I'm talking about radical Muslims."

"He can't bring himself to say that!"

"He is more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the death of 3,000 people, innocent people, on that day."

"This man is a disgrace to veterans, and believe me, as a Catholic, we contacted NYPD, FDNY and Port Authority a year later...85 to 90% of first responders who were murdered, they were Catholic."

"And we stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against the likes of Hasan Piker, who says nothing but good things about the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas."

"It's a disgrace!"

"Mamdani, do us all a favor and just stay home."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:24 PM

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