The webinar “9/11: American Muslims Twenty Years Later” does not concern “who did it, was it Mossad, the CIA, and how did bin Laden get operatives in the building to orchestrate a controlled demolition,” stated Zaytuna College co-founder and professor emeritus Zaid Shakir. On 9/11’s twentieth anniversary, he and his fellow panelists spun absurd conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks, while doing their best to obscure the plain facts of Al Qaeda’s guilt.
Shakir, who organized the webinar on behalf of the radical, anti-Israel Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), has long embraced conspiratorial nonsense. After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, he wrote that “some [unnamed] observers” said it “was undertaken by the Zionist forces” in order to “intensify their anti-Islamic propaganda campaign.” Admitting he “was an extremely anti-American person” when 9/11 happened, he stayed true to form by expressing his desire to focus the webinar on 9/11’s subsequent effects on the American Muslim community, “regardless of who is responsible” for the attacks.
Post 9/11, Shakir noted the political quandaries traditional Muslims including him face in the modern West. The number of American Muslim politicians has grown and they have been “doing some great things, especially in terms of foreign policy,” he said. By contrast, he lamented, “in terms of domestic policy” these policymakers “have almost universally . . . adopted a progressive, leftwing agenda that advocates for things that Muslims traditionally have held to be forbidden and/or repugnant.”
Leading American Muslim scholar Yasir Qadhi tried (and failed) to simultaneously condemn and embrace 9/11 conspiracies. Despite Shakir’s earlier statements, Qadhi quipped to him that “even you and I have a redline that we are not going to cross” regarding theories about 9/11 that they would discuss publicly. “We are not going to go down certain things,” Qadhi said, before claiming that 9/11 still presented “a lot of unanswered questions.”
Qadhi likewise raised questions about Islam’s relationship to democracy while discussing Muslim Americans in the two decades before 9/11. Back then, the “norm was to hear this notion of voting is haram [forbidden], it was the default in most suburban masajid [mosque]. And our imams and sheikhs from Al Azhar and from other places [said] there was this identity, we shouldn’t really get involved in the system too much,” he said. Post-9/11, “that’s literally out the window,” for Muslims realized the necessity of political engagement for protecting their civil rights. Although Qadhi condemned 9/11 as “un-Islamic; it was unethical, it was unjust, regardless of whatever political grievances that existed before,” he argued that 9/11 brought “Islamophobia,” the “demonization of the ummah, of our texts, of even our prophet.”
Howard University assistant Dean for religious life Nisa Muhammad expressed similar sentiments. She is a follower of the rabidly antisemitic Louis Farrakhan, who inspired her to abandon her Baptist roots and convert to Islam as graduate student at Howard University. Muhammad is a writer for Farrakhan’s Final Call magazine and a television host for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s antisemitic Press TV.
After 9/11, she said, the “entire faith of Islam was blamed for the actions of a few. This was unheard of when the Ku Klux Klan terrorized black people in America. The entire faith of Christianity was never condemned or criticized.” She never explained which Christian doctrines justified racism or how she, Farrakhan, Al Qaeda, and Iran’s Islamic Republic represented just a “few” marginal extremists.
Saafir Raab II, a former consultant to President Barack Obama, also questioned 9/11’s historical record. Raab organized Obama’s 2016 visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a mosque under FBI surveillance because of links to jihadists and a past imam who preached that suicide bombings were justified. Raab described 9/11 as an exceptional event involving a “few individuals who are clearly mentally deranged, whoever was involved with that effort, those are people who are not mentally fit for civility . . . whoever they were.”
University of Southern California professor Sherman Jackson, bemoaned that 9/11 opened Americans’ eyes to what most recognize as the dangers presented by sharia. “Before 9/11 we could say all kinds of things, and America was kind of an ideological playground,” he stated, before adding “9/11 said, no, no, no, you can’t do that anymore, you now have to be more disciplined and more measured in what you say.” He then offered a back-handed compliment to restrictions of traditional Islam by complaining that “given the levels of literacy we have within institutions we have today, the Prophet himself would have been condemned.” “Cancel culture would have affected him,” Qadhi agreed.
Jackson defends Critical Race Theory (CRT), a radical leftist ideology that considers racism intrinsic to American institutions and life. He falsely analogized opposition to CRT to the resurgent Taliban’s abolishment of female education. “We can complain about that and yet turn around, have state legislators say, we are not going to have Critical Race Theory taught in our schools, and not see the double standard,” he said.
While the webinar participants emphasized Muslim victimhood, their own comments clearly showed that Muslim self-reflection would have been a more appropriate response to 9/11. The panelists’ conspiracy mongering, prejudices, and troubled relationship to democratic participation exposed their conflicts with America’s constitutional regime and civil society. That several are professors of Islamic and Middle East studies demonstrates the toxic nature of academe and makes clear the urgent need for thoroughgoing reform.
Andrew E. Harrod, a Middle East Forum Campus Watch Fellow, freelance researcher, and writer, is a fellow with the Lawfare Project. Follow him on Twitter: @AEHarrod.
Wellington says
All the deceit, looney-tune crap and self-pitying aside (big asides I know), these turkeys just demonstrate how completely incompatible Islam and liberty are.
They also demonstrate something else and that is that willingly being a Muslim is evidence of a mental disorder.
mortimer says
Yes, Islam is a form of non-empathetic, narcissistic sociopathy. Anyone who voluntarily joins this Death Cult, must be suspected of having a personality disorder … some form of either narcissism, sadism, psychopathy or unresolved rage syndrome. An ordinarily kindly person would be unable to join this death cult / slave cult / misogyny cult / supremacist cult / anti-human-rights cult.
To be clear, one must have a screw loose to voluntarily join Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
Anyone can claim anything that doesn’t means its the truth. Proof of a claim is an entirely different story.
For example I had received claims from Muslims from some internet sites of being “a secret writer
on the payroll of the Mossad. . Also that I’m “really a secret writer for the CIA ”
Moreover ,the most absurd outstanding a claim received against me was “Muslims didn’t commit the mass murderous which occurred on September 11, 2001.” that Muslim wrote on accusing me of being behind those terrorists attacks on 9/11.
Wow ! I didn’t know that I was in sinister yet intelligent to pull off all those horrendous murderous events and get away with it by shifting the blame of Osama bin Laden and KSM.
As I keyboard above “anyone can claim anything”.
mortimer says
Yes, Yasir Qadhi is a master of fake claims. Yasir Qadhi is career dissembler. He dissembles to fellow Muslims and he dissembles to the filthy KUFAAR. I wonder if he dissembles to himself. I suspect so.
Qadhi claims (without presenting evidence) that 9-11 was not Islamic, even though Osama bin Laden SCRUPULOUSLY CONSULTED MULLAHS TO BE 100% SURE that the 9-11 attacks WERE COMPLETELY ISLAMIC !!! Bin Laden followed STRICT Islamic protocols for the attacks, first CALLING AMERICANS TO ISLAM and giving them the chance to AVOID HIS and ALLAH’S ‘PUNISHMENTS’.
Muslim apologists like Yasir Qadhi and his friends here are ARGUING AGAINST MOHAMMED. Mohammed claimed a different Islamic formula than DEMOCRACY and VOTING.
According to Mohammed, original Islam is military jihad … what Osama bin Laden did.
“Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
I heard the Apostle of Allah say: When you enter into the inah transaction (become businessmen), hold the tails of oxen (become cattlemen), are pleased with agriculture (become farmers), and give up CONDUCTING JIHAD, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you RETURN to your ORIGINAL RELIGION.” – Sunan Abu Dawud Book 23, Number 3455
‘CONDUCTING JIHAD’ is thus the ‘original religion’ of Mohammed. Mohammed is the authority on Islam … not Yasir Qadhi.
somehistory says
mozlums attacked the U.S. and then did more to further the goal set out by the mb…written in their manifesto…to take down the “miserable house,” that is the U.S.
The got their snake into the WH, then he got many of their operatives into many government positions by appointment, and all of the time, deriding Christians, pretending it was his mozlum brothers who are responsible for all good things and Christians are the bad guys; and he elevated islam by ordering NASA to make mozlums feel important.
The slime made a big start in the take-down of the “miserable house” and he has been followed by i. elmi, alias i. omar, r tlaib and mozlums on important posts. The slime’s puppet, said that mozlums would be at every level in his administration.
All of this is way too much islam for the sane to swallow….but they are not done. They must continue to deny being responsible for the attack of 9/11…even though bin laden took “credit” for the murderous assault, mozlums the world over celebrated and gave bin laden credit for the murders… claiming instead, to be the victims of the attack, to claim “backlash” and persecution and hatred and discrimination.
Gag a maggot. Gag a whole boatload of maggots. They make me sick. They are the maggots producing the garbage. If they don’t like it, they can go live in afghanistan and allow the taliban to tell them how wonderful they are. Especially the women among them who have prominent positions in this country.
somehistory says
They are very much like the father of the bully who terrorizes the little kid next door and when confronted, says his son would not do such a thing, and the little kid must be lying in order to get his son in trouble.
Then, when the little kid’s dad leaves and the door is closed, he high-fives his bully son for having terrorized the little kid successfully.
Doomer says
For me,the sudden collapse of building 7, 7 hours after the Twin Towers collapsed, a 47 story building, 600 feet tall, could not have been because of a fire.
It is the “smoking gun”.
We all here know the media has lied and lied to us,over and over again.And that the media has brought experts on Islam who have told us Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Last year,2020:
https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2020/05/world-trade-center-7-building-did-not-collapse-due-to-fire-report
“A group of engineers and architects is demanding the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
retract and correct a 2008 report that concluded one of three World Trade Center buildings
collapsed because fire weakened the steel supporting it in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911T) has formally filed a Request for Correction with the NIST following a
new and detailed four-year analysis by a team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).”
““We have filed a request for correction because the NIST report is wrong,” says Ted Walter, spokesperson for AE911T,
which is a group of 3,000 engineers, scientists and architects”
Of course Al-Qaeda was involved,but not regarding building 7, the Deep State took advantage, they knew
ahead of time what was coming.They decided to use profit from it.The Deep State already had plans to control us.It’s over.
somehistory says
Rutgers Professors Mark 20th Anniversary of 9/11 by Assaulting America
by Andrew E. Harrod
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate)
September 23, 2021
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62674/rutgers-professors-mark-20th-anniversary-of-9-11
“Deepa Kumar called America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan “a fantastic defeat for U.S. imperialism.”
They congratulate the enemies of Americans while living here and pretending to **be** Americans like the ‘rest of us.’
This “professor” of “women and gender studies”….is a nasty mozlum who has too high opinion of herself. “Women and gender studies”….what a nothing burger…and so is she.
Doomer says
Yasir Qadhi is the most famous Muslim intellectual in the English-speaking world,he is somewhat reformist. The truth is he secretly doesn’t believe in human rights.
It is true human rights is a fiction,but Muslim scholars reject the concept of human rights,not because they accept evolution and Darwinism, but because their God is a God who rejects people are in the image of God. I am not a Christian.
The deists who appeared in the Age of Enlightenment had a religion called Natural Religion,which proclaimed men were born with certain “rights”,the natural rights of John Locke,which are the inalienable rights to liberty,life and property.
But not the religion of Islam.And there are the female “Muslim feminists”,in both the West and in Muslim countries. But those Muslim women , secretly, do not believe in human rights.
How can I convince you? Those Muslim feminists call it WHITE FEMINISM ( code for “non-Muslim white women who actually believe in “human rights”).
Check out the book by a female Muslim feminist:
“Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption” ( 2021 )
by Rafia Zakaria
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55298403-against-white-feminism
“Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism.
They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and
speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority.
An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism,
centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to
white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals.
Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and “the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West”
to the condescension of the white feminist–led “aid industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears”
However,however,the founders,I repeat,the founders of feminism ,women by the way,in the West, did sincerely accept the existence of human rights.
They were ex-Christians,but were deists: Olympe de Gouges,who was killed in 1793,during the French revolution, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
The first wrote,in 1791,the Declaration of the Rights of Women,”in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being ( God),
the following rights of woman and the citizeness.
1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. ”
Those rights are the natural rights formulated by John Locke.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”(1792) ,and she was a deist.
The real reason why those 2 women actually believed in the existence of human rights for men and women, was because they had been influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition in the West.
mortimer says
These LIARS inadvertently LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG … they inadvertently condemned the JIHADISM of MOHAMMED himself depicted in the hadiths and Sira.
University of Southern California professor Sherman Jackson, bemoaned that “given the levels of literacy we have within institutions we have today, the Prophet HIMSELF WOULD HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED.” “Cancel culture WOULD HAVE AFFECTED HIM,” Qadhi agreed.
These two PhDs are deploring that, in today’s politically correct universities, they may not express the TRUE SEVERITY OF THEIR VIOLENT ISLAMIC JIHAD IDEOLOGY !!! This is a radical admission!
Mohammed himself would be CONDEMNED today for his INTOLERANCE AND BRUTALITY!
So Jackson and Qadhi APPROVE of 9-11 in fact, but they BEMOAN that they may not openly SAY they approve of 9-11.
OLD GUY says
As a newly appointed white supremacist according to the BLM and media outlets, I think I am now a conspiracy victim of racism also. I wonder when our colleges and Universities will have old guy studies?
Oh wait that would be actual American and world history classes
Jack says
Islamics have been attempting to conquer Christians and the West since its founding. As recently as WWI, the Ottoman Empire joined with the Germans and Austro-Hungarians in an attempt to conquer the West. They keep trying to find ways — either militarily or by other means — to make inroads against the West which, until recently, was Christendom. Now that we are under rule of the secular humanists and globalists, we are more vulnerable to conquest than we have been in a long time.
Jack says
All Germans did not want war with the U.S. Likewise, all Japanese. Yet, under the nation-state system, the controlling militaristic group that attacked Pearl Harbor had to be answered. Likewise, we must send a consistent message to the Muslim world that if you cannot or will not get on top of those terrorist elements in your society (Muslims are themselves the greatest victims of the various jihadi groups within their midst), then all will have to pay a price for those “extremists” in their midst who hope to terrorize and murder all in the world who disagree with them. But the verses in the “perfect”. Quran that are used to justify the hatred and murder of the infidel are not deleted by any authoritative Islam scholars or teachers.