Friday, September 11, 2026
25 Years
So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers — because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers.
But eventually, a funny thing happened: We went back to sleep.
Not entirely, of course. We still have enhanced security in air travel to prevent a similar kind of terrorist attack. We recognize the necessity of dealing with radical Islamist regimes and networks, although even that seems to have faded when dealing with them impacts our gas prices. For the past three years, American campuses have churned with activists declaring their solidarity with an Islamist terror network that perpetrated a massacre on Israelis that far surpassed the scale of 9/11 on a population-adjusted basis and demand that Israel get handed over to radical Islamists whose ideology barely differs at all from al-Qaeda and the terrorists of 9/11.
We fret over "Islamophobia" rather than honestly deal with the threat of radical Islam, both abroad and at home. David will have an example in his next post, in fact.
That is one reason why writing these commemorative posts has become so difficult. It's not just the memories; it's the forgetting. No one needs another "I was in my office dealing with a shift change" memory post. What we need is a slap in the face and someone yelling, "Wake up!" With the exception of the anniversaries and perhaps a day or two on either side of them, 9/11 has gone to sleep in America.
And:
To discuss 9/11 is to admit the threat. To admit the threat requires recognition of those who threaten. That, in turn, requires action, not just by the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of War, but by all of us. It means action in controlling our borders. It means vigilance in choosing our leaders. It means fully funding law enforcement and ensuring its focus on mission. It means heightened awareness, or in the vernacular that erupted in the days after 9/11, it means "If you see something, say something."
But that's not the story you are getting from the media. It's all about Islamophobia, explaining that, despite the fact that more Muslims immigrated to the United States post-9/11 and that they and their children significantly outnumber the number of Muslims who lived here before it, they really are the hardest hit by the vicious, grossly unfair Islamophobia.
Islam, we all know, had nothing to do with the terrorism.
It was actually remarkable to me how little hate was directed at Muslims post-9/11, and sometimes I wonder whether the steady flow of pro-Islam propaganda didn't doom the West to an Islamist takeover by more peaceful means.
The Islamist interpretation of October 7th, now dominates American discourse, with politicians across the West isolating Israel and repeating absolute falsehoods about Israel, and liberals making pilgrimages to mosques and sometimes learning the language of the very people determined to colonize us.
We are now told that Muslim immigrants "built this country" and are the "fabric of America," but also that they are the recipients of a steady stream of hate.
Uh, no. There are few populations more catered to than Muslims in Western countries, at least by the Establishment, which in the UK now invites them to actually rape English girls. And after every terrorist attack, we are warned that it is hate speech to notice.
This is a prime example of suicidal empathy.
In the history of bloody conquests and the enslavement of people, Muslims stand at the top of the pyramid, and unlike the West, Islamists are as fully committed to the project of conquering the world.
We were angry, and we should have been. We should still be angry today.
The conflict in which the terrorist attacks were one battle continues today. The Iranian Republic declared war on America in 1979, and they have pursued that war ever since, even as Americans tried to ignore it. Radical Islam is as much a force for evil today as it was 25 years ago. Perhaps the reminders we are now seeing of the full horror of the terror attack of 25 years ago will cause Americans to get serious about ending the scourge once and for all.
Someone should perform the same service for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As they used to say on Candid Camera, they they were caught in the act of being themselves — at today’s 9/11 Ground Zero memorial ceremony (video below). The New York Post covers the story here, Fox News here.
Mr. Johnson's annual tribute to Rick Rescorla is posted here.
The big picture here is that on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we're still targets for al Qaeda (the Sunni extremists) and we're also fighting against Iran and the Houthis (the Shia extremists). What all of these groups have in common is Islamic militancy and hatred for the United States.
That seems worth mentioning on the anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, a day when American media is simultaneously awash in stories about Islamophobia and Islamic militants who want us dead.
