The Patriot Post® · Muslim Immigration 25 Years After 9/11

In just a few days, our nation will mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in which 19 Islamofascists murdered nearly 3,000 people.

The perpetrators of that attack were Islamic terrorists tied to Osama bin Laden's jihadist organization al-Qaida. This is all well-established fact, and the reason for America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The enemy at the time was clear, and the nation was united in fighting against them and seeking justice.

Twenty-five years later, that national unity has all but disappeared, as has the identification of that original enemy. Instead, Islam is increasingly excused, if not defended, compared to those “dangerous Christians.” This false narrative has become a popular talking point on the Left, including by the likes of Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico, who asserted that “my religion [Christianity] has done more damage to both [Islam and Judaism] than they've done to each other.” He claimed that Hindus and atheists are “more Christlike than some Christians.”

He made these statements back in 2021, and while he’s sought to downplay them, they serve as an example of just how far this condemning and blaming of America and our Judeo-Christian values has gotten.

This is further evidence of why New York City elected a Muslim mayor, whose own views of America and our war against Islamic terrorism mirror Talarico’s.

Instead of becoming more wary of Islam and its ideology, we have become self-critical, self-loathing, and, frankly, intellectually stupid concerning what Islam teaches, advocates, and produces.

In 2001, the Muslim population in the U.S. numbered 1.8 million. Today that number has swelled to 4.5 million. In many ways, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York can be attributed to the growing population of Muslims in the city, which numbered 400,000 on 9/11 and now exceeds 700,000.

Even in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks, commentators and politicians warned against demonizing Muslims. Certainly, the vast majority living within the U.S. at the time indeed had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.

But the obvious question that few seemed willing to raise was that of assimilation.

Can Muslims fully integrate into American culture, which, as noted above, is inherently grounded in a Judeo-Christian ethic and value system that embraces the separation of church and state and recognizes and defends the fundamental God-given rights of the individual to pursue life, liberty, and happiness freely?

Unfortunately, the track record of rising Muslim politicians within our nation is exposing how many don’t love America and its founding principles and values. In fact, more often than not, they express disdain for our nation.

For example, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar dismissively referred to 9/11 during a 2019 speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). She erroneously and obnoxiously claimed, “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

“Some people did something” on 9/11. And exactly who lost any civil liberties? The comment brought widespread and deserved condemnation, which Omar simply spun as more “evidence” to justify her false claims.

You would think a woman who has fled the repressive and corrupt Islamic nation of Somalia to enjoy the freedoms, security, and opportunities here in America would have a positive and thankful attitude toward her new home.

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed expressed a similar negative attitude. In 2021, El-Sayed penned an op-ed in which he warned that the greatest terrorist threat to America was “‘homegrown’ and ‘radicalized’ White men.” Evoking the woke language of the anti-American Left, he wrote:

On 9/11 millions of Muslim Americans were called to defend it. Admittedly, at first, we demurred. Our leaders told us this would pass. The best course of action, they said, was to keep our heads down, to “fit in” — change our names, fix our accents and hide our heritage. The patriotic duty was to assent to the implication that we were guilty until proven innocent, to take our collective punishment with a smile for the privilege of playing our part in a war on terror increasingly defined in opposition to our very identities. Only in complicity could we prove that we were more “us” than “them.”

It only got worse, though. The cancer born of a bellicose White supremacy that has stained so much of our history metastasized still.

Did America round up Muslims across the country and put them into internment camps? Did America ban Islam and prevent the building of mosques? Obviously not, and yet El-Sayed still plays the victim.

In fact, America went out of its way to clarify that the jihadi terrorists were solely to blame for 9/11. The “War Against Terror” was just that: an aim to eliminate terrorist threats to our nation, as any government worth its salt would do.

But 25 years later, America, rather than Islamic radicals, is being blamed. Antisemitism is on the rise in ways that no one would have believed possible, especially after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack against Israel.

Much of this emergence of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, especially on the Left, can be traced to Muslims in America. They’ve espoused this racist ideology often in defense of radical Islamists like Hamas.

Immigration has historically been a net positive for America. But not all immigrants are the same, nor do they hold the same values. Immigration is positive only when immigrants embrace assimilation and truly become Americans.

But how do you assimilate to a country you fundamentally oppose? You don't. Omar, El-Sayed, Mamdani, and other Muslim leaders are providing a troubling example of this reality. Assimilation and integration are not their fundamental goals; rather, it appears that occupying, supplanting, and subjugating are.

Call it the vision for Americastan.

Instead of a conviction that our American Judeo-Christian values are good, right, and true, and should guide us and be promoted, we as a nation have lost our mind and heart to a godless secular malaise known as postmodernism. As a result, we have no defense against those who point out our moral failings as if they were the sole defining element for our existence.

To put it bluntly, radical Islam was to blame for 9/11, but the spread of Islam in America is due to us replacing our conviction in the righteousness of our values with a self-loathing, guilty conscience.