On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth from National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
11th September 2026
As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now.
Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why”, exactly, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out these attacks. The too-offensive-for-public-discourse “why” part of 9/11 can be readily found in, for instance, the recovered United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit recordings, which reveal one hijacker’s motivation at an authentic moment of truth. Nine times over that nosediving flight’s final six seconds before it disintegrated with all 40 victims into a Shanksville, Pa. field, the hijacker repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar…!” Allah is great.
Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial (think New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani), to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does. Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims. I wonder why that is….