Never forget

25 years ago today, on United flight 93 that had been hijacked by Islamic terrorists and headed for the White House, four passengers, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, and flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw, decided to take matters into their own hands. They charged the hijackers and the plane was brought to the ground in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 150 miles short of its destination in Washington, DC, saving countless lives.

Shortly before that, Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader working on the 104^th floor of the South Tower, made his way down to the 78^th floor after the building was struck by a hijacked plane. Using his trademark red bandana to cover his mouth from the smoke, he led injured and traumatized people to the one functioning stairwell which led them out of the tower to safety. He went back again and again, leading more and more people out of the burning building, until it collapsed, saving 18  lives before he was crushed and killed by the falling tower.

It was a horrific day, especially when we saw the Trade Centers collapse. This was an attack on America, but we all knew that the foundation of the United States was not in its concrete structures, the foundation is and has always been in the founding principles of this country. And those are the principles that the people who attacked us that day, hated and wanted to destroy – individual freedom and sovereignty, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Those people tried to destroy those principles because their whole life they’ve been indoctrinated to hate them. They’ve been taught to hate any and every religion, which is different from theirs. Those people are polar opposite of true Americans and everything that America stands for.

We swore that we would never forget what happened on September 11, 2001. We swore we would honor the dead by always remembering the day they were killed and the root cause of the atrocities that day. But sadly, we have forgotten. It’s been 25 years since the planes flew into the World Trade Centers, and the Pentagon, and the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing 3,000 Americans. We remember, but we have forgotten.

The mayor of the city where the Twin Towers used to stand is a radical Muslim who supports Jihad. His wife, Rama Duwaji, liked posts on social media celebrating the October 7 Islamic terrorist attack on Israel, which killed over 1,400 Israelis, motivated by the same hatred that motivated the attacks on 9/11. She liked posts featuring the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is a call for genocide of the Jews. That’s the wife of the person who will be presiding over the 9/11 ceremonies, today. We know deep down he believes that the United States of America deserved 9/11, and that 9/11 was a good thing. He is just too savvy to admit that publicly.

Mamdani said that one of the worst consequences of the 9/11 attacks is that when his aunt rode the subway wearing a hijab, people looked at her suspiciously. He was more upset that people were a little intolerant towards Muslims in New York in the aftermath of 9/11 than he was about 19 Muslims murdering 3,000 Americans. Muslims always commit the most heinous attacks, and then they turn around and blame the victims for their reaction to their heinous attacks. Always, in the aftermath of an Islamic terrorist attacks, we are scolded and lectured about “Islamophobia”.  If Muslims spent as much time and energy rooting out the intolerance that their own religion shows toward the rest of the world, they would be surprised at how quickly the intolerance towards them would disappear. 

We always hear about how awful the Crusades were, but we never hear about the 400 years of extreme violence that the Muslims committed against Christians and Jews when they invaded the Middle East between 600 and 1000 AD. It was 400 years of total bloodshed, conquering cities, burning villages down the ground, raping the women, killing the men, enslaving the children, forced conversions to Islam, but when the Christians finally stood up to the Islamic aggression, the Muslims called the Christians the bad guys, the evil ones. It is always the same, 19 Muslims murder 3,000 American citizens on 9/11 and the people who looked at Muslims the wrong way are the bad guys. Muslim terrorists invade Israel in October 7, killing 1,400 people, raping thousands of women, taking 400 hostages, and when Israel fights back, the Jews are the bad guys. I am so tired of the most intolerant religion on the planet complaining about others being intolerant towards them.

The families of the victims of the 9/11 attack have asked mayor Mamdani not to attend the 9/11 Memorial on September 11 out of sheer decency and respect, but he is refusing that request. He is going to go there even though he is not welcome – a typical Muslim response. I will go where I am clearly not wanted just to make others uncomfortable. Make no mistake, the motivation for these attacks was the Islamic faith which Mamdani is a proud member of. This is a man whose father had written that the that terrorist hijackers should be seen as heroic soldiers.

Mamdani is not going there to honor and commemorate the people who died, or to honor the first responders, and the people who laid down their lives trying to save people. That’s not why he’s going there. He’s going there so his mere presence makes the statement that Islam is in the process of conquering the United States of America. And, in his speech at the 9/11 memorial, he will use language that either justifies the attacks, honors Islam, or somehow blames America for being attacked.

Muslims do not come to a new country to assimilate, they come in to infiltrate and conquer. That’s what they do. That’s what they’ve done around the world for the past 1,400 years. That’s who they are. The United States is criticized for their colonialism in its past, but for some reason, we cannot criticize the colonialism by Muslims. The biggest colonialist in the world are Muslims. They took over 55 countries in the Middle East and around the world. They infiltrated, they seize power, and they slaughtered all the people who weren’t Muslims. Muslims have done 10 times worse than what the United States of America has ever been accused of doing. And they’re continuing to do it in Europe and they’re trying to do it here in America.

Not only do Muslims believe that every person who is not a Muslim is inferior, they also believe that those people all deserve to die, and it is their right to kill them. That’s what they believe. Don’t merely take my word for it, that’s what is expressed explicitly in their holy book, The Quran. It’s not referenced once that they should kill the infidels, it stated over and over and over again throughout the book that they worship.

“Slay the non-believers wherever you find them.” Quran 2:191

“Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.” Quran 5.33

“Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Quran.” Quran 8.12

“When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them.” Quran 9.5

“Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Quran 9.123

“Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” Quran 8.60

“The Jews and the Christians are perverts, fight them.” Quran 9.30

“Do not seek peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them.” Quran 47.4

“Punish the nonbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies.” Quran 22.19

Muslims are charged to kill their enemies, and not just their enemies, but anyone who disagrees with them or believes something different than they do. Jesus, on the other hand, commanded us to “love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.” I’m on the side of Jesus with this one. These Muslims are charged to kill the people who are commanded to love them. That is how sick and twisted the Islamic faith is. They treat us as enemies simply because we do not want to be a part of a religion that wants to kill everyone else, and even though they hate us and view us as enemies, if we remain true to our religion, we will love them anyway, and that makes them want to kill us all the more. (I hate to break it to you Barack, but Christianity is the “religion of peace”, not Islam. Islam is the religion of hate and war and murder. The record of history is crystal clear)

They are charged to kill all the infidels – anyone who is not a Muslim. That’s their goal. And that’s exactly what they’re going to do, as soon as they gain enough power in this country. When the Muslims are the majority in the United States of America, it will be legal to murder non-Muslims, just as it’s legal to behead Christians in Nigeria. That’s what they’re all about.

The Muslims are trying to hijack our country like they hijacked those airplanes 25 years ago and they’re doing so in order to destroy our country like they destroyed the Trade Centers and the Pentagon. Zohran Mamdani holding the reins of mayor’s office in New York City is no different than Mohammed Atta holding the yoke of American Airlines Flight 11 which he flew into the North Tower. It is serving the same purpose – the destruction of the United States.

We believe in freedom of religion in this country. Freedom of religion is part of our constitution. Many people came to America because they wanted to freely practice their religion, therefore, many people would argue that it is wrong to ban Muslims from our country on the basis of their religion, that would be a violation of our constitution. But the one thing we must consider is that when those 19 Muslim terrorists were in the process of hijacking those planes and flying them into buildings to kill 3,000 Americans, they were practicing their religion. Doing that is what their religion teaches them to do, expects them to do and rewards them for doing it. That is why Islam is so dangerous in this country.

This is the conundrum with Islam. The more we allow Muslims to freely practice their religion, the more non-Muslims will end up dead. So, I’m all for freedom of religion, except if the religion teaches to murder everyone else of other religions. That’s where we must draw the line on freedom of religion. If we do not ban Islam in our country today, in one or two generations, Islam will ban every other religion in this country.

9/11 was not a single event. It was not what Ilhan Omar called it, “someone did something”. It was the opening salvo of Muslims’ war on the West. Right after 911, we started our war terror. We went out into the world, rooting out Islamic terrorism everywhere, wherever we could find it. And while we were doing that, the Muslims have slowly but surely embedded themselves into our country. Not assimilating into our culture, but embedding themselves into the country. Everything that they do is designed to take down the West and to take down the United States. There is a reason why they hold their prayer meetings in the middle of the streets in cities in the United States. There is a reason why they are targeting women in the West to rape them. They are barbarians and they have no recognizable moral code. They live by an immoral code. It’s all about conquering. These are medieval people with a medieval mindset. And they are winning.

But don’t fret, we are on the right side because we are on Christ’s side. I would rather be Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Sandy Bradshaw, or Welles Crowther, people who laid down their lives to save others, than Mohammed Atta and the 18 other hijackers who laid down their lives to murder 3,000 people. 9/11 highlighted the vast difference between Christianity and Islam. There could be no more polar opposite religions than Christianity and Islam. Jesus laid down his life, so we could live. Muslims are charged and rewarded for laying down their lives to murder others. Burnett, Glick, Bingham, Beamer, Bradshaw, and Welles were Christlike on 9/11. They gave up their lives so others could live. “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

Muslims may believe that they are winning here on Earth, but the goal of the Christian is victory in heaven, not victory on Earth. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matt 6:19-21

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.