We Forgot What Happened On 9/11

Almost a quarter of a century ago, 3,000 New Yorkers died randomly, and then more people continued to die due to American imperialism, and that’s all there is to that.

This is how the sitting mayor of New York City frames the terror attacks of 9/11, in which 19 Islamist extremists tied to Al Qaeda hijacked four planes and drove two of them into the Twin Towers, killing thousands of Americans.

Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn’t stopped.

We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced.

In their memory, we work toward a better world.

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) September 11, 2023

To say he is a piece of sh*t would be courteous. 

The attacks of 9/11 used to be one of the only things Americans could agree on. They severed and cauterized the 20th century. They united a lackadaisical, bored country through a trauma bond that was supposed to never be forgotten. They changed America’s mindset, putting her on guard against those who wished for her demise. They were destructive, deadly, purposeful, evil, and we knew exactly who was at fault. The Islamic terrorists. Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden. We vowed to kill each and every last vestige of that satanic cult, and never let it happen again.

But memory is a strange thing. Time dulls even the sharpest edges of a terrorist act, as children grow up who did not watch the towers fall, and an empathetic West, to a suicidal fault, becomes too forgiving. Forgiving to a point in which they start to blame themselves.

Which brings us to the pathetic leadership class of the Left in 2026, who haven’t just forgotten; they have forfeited. Relinquished every last molecule of honor and respect from their beings and handed the box cutters, forged identities, and fake bombs right back to the terrorists, then shoved them right back on the plane. Hasan Piker, the Left’s influencer, says America deserved 9/11. Zohran Mamdani, the Left’s collective communist terror-sympathizer mayor, says Muslims were the real victims of the attack. A socialist congressional candidate, Melat Kiros, recently said 9/11 was inevitable. An ex-MSNBC host and radical freak, Mehdi Hasan, posts things like “Make American Planes Crash Again” on X.

None of these vile hacks, save for anchor baby Hasan Piker, were born in America. Yet they now live here and have outsized influence all over it.

The Left excuses comments like this more and more every day. There is a growing class of people who either believe Americans deserved what was coming to them, or that the attacks simply didn’t happen at all. In fact, if anything, it was just a minor plane malfunction, probably at the hands of the state of Israel, which Hasan Piker also says deserves violence against it and its people.

They hate born-and-bred Americans because we are, generally, successful, and they prefer to see themselves as oppressed, though most of these ghouls come from unrelenting opulence that left them spoiled, ungrateful, and starved for drama. So they flee toward this flawed republic. They settle inside the “original settler sin” in order to prosecute the experiment. They are trained to do this from the moment they take their first breath. Mamdani’s parents, for instance, were postcolonial theorists and activists who spent their lives teaching their son, in the comfort of their million dollar compound, that suicide bombers are a category of soldier rather than a category of murder, and that the empire must be struck back against by running for city council, then mayor, then corrupting, sapping, cannibalizing the empire that gave them unbounding freedom and prosperity.

They produce children who turn real victims into apologists, and attackers into victims. 

Nineteen men, following an Islamist creed, taking orders from a theocratic commander who had declared war on the infidel, hijacked airliners heavy with tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel and drove them into office buildings packed with secretaries, bond traders, firefighters, dishwashers, and children. The planes punched through steel and concrete. Fuel sheeted down elevator shafts. An inferno was ignited. The temperature boiled flesh. Everyone above the fire was trapped. Some held each other. Some prayed. Some jumped 100 stories down. Some tried to call families they would never see again. Nearly 3,000 people were slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in a matter of hours.

This was not random. This was not an accident. This was not a conspiracy. This was not deserved.

This was barbaric. This was a deliberate mass murder of almost 3,000 Americans because 19 men’s religion told them to.

And almost exactly 25 years later, an Islamist mayor runs the same city that watched its citizens 

fall a hundred stories from its two tallest buildings, and frames the atrocity as a random day when people died. The true loss, in his telling, was the hundreds of thousands who died in the “wars that followed,” and the unknown millions injured and displaced.

He could not be more perversely wrong.

Zohran Mamdani is disgusting. And it’s disgusting that we forgot.