9/11 mastermind gets a plea deal while a racist supermarket shooter gets death.
Over the summer, the Biden administration warned 9/11 family members that it was negotiating a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the attacks, and four other Al Qaeda terrorists directly involved in the plot to murder thousands of people in America.
Biden had previously freed Mohammed al-Qahtani, the 20th 9/11 hijacker, and Zuhail al-Sharabi, another hijacker for an expanded version of the 9/11 attacks, along with an Al Qaeda ally who plotted to smuggle nukes into America and still another terrorist who plotted to blow up gas stations in Maryland, among others of the ‘worst of the worst’ still being held in Gitmo.
No wonder that Biden ducked out on the 9/11 commemoration to avoid facing family members.
While Biden’s people are trying to cut a plea deal for the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, they have, for the first time, demanded the death penalty for another killer.
Payton Gendron’s massacre of ten people in a Buffalo supermarket was not the only such supermarket mass killing. A year earlier, Ahmed Al-Issa, a Syrian Muslim immigrant, had opened fire in a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, and killed ten people. The case quickly vanished from the news (although the Washington Post did inquire whether the Arab Muslim mass killing of Americans could somehow count as “white male violence”.)
Instead of trying Ahmed in federal court in a death penalty case, the Biden administration was only interested in trying and executing Payton. Why? According to the Justice Department, “Gendron, a white male, committed a mass shooting attack targeting Black people.” (The racial capitalization here comes from the DOJ.) “Gendron’s motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race.”
Gendron’s mass shooting was not even the worst recent racist supermarket shooting
In 2019, Patrick Wood Crusius shot up a Walmart in El Paso, killing 23 people in order to stop Latinos from taking over America. In early 2023, the Justice Department announced that it wouldn’t pursue the death penalty.. In January 2024, around the same time that Biden decided to seek the death penalty for Gendron, it ruled out the death penalty for Anderson Lee Aldrich who had shot up a gay bar and killed 5 people. It was never clear whether Aldrich was gay or hated gay people, but the DOJ did hit him with 55 hate crime charges. Still no death penalty.
Murdering 5 people in cold blood (or 1 person) whatever the reason ought to be a fast track to a lethal injection. But Attorney General Merrick Garland froze all new death penalty cases on taking office and has so far only signed off on one of them because of entirely racial reasons.
Supermarket shooters, whether they’re white, black or Muslim, should all face the death penalty. So should any number of mass shooters, including Nicolas Cruz, the Parkland high school mass murder who killed 17 people, almost all of them children and teenagers, who was spared the death penalty in 2022 by a soppy jury who chose to value the killer’s life over that of his victims.
The Al Qaeda terrorists we collected in Gitmo, should have been culled a long time ago.
Instead, Biden’s rules are that if you’re a Muslim who kills thousands of Americans, you get a plea deal, if you kill ten, you vanish from the news, and if you kill 17 Latinos, you’ll get some of the book thrown at you, if you’re a black man who kills other black men, you’ll get ignored, but if you’re a white man who kills black people, only then will you finally qualify for the death penalty.
That’s putting the DEI in the death penalty. It also violates the Constitutional protections against handing out different penalties based on the races of the victims of the perpetrators. Civil rights legislation, the basis for federal prosecutions, is already constitutionally dubious, but even it does not allow for picking and choosing which minorities have lives that matter more.
In Muslim countries, the value of a human life depends on the victim’s race, sex and religion.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, killing a Muslim man used to require paying a blood price of 100,000 riyals, 50,000 for a Muslim woman or a Christian man, 6,666 for a Hindu man and 3,333 for a Hindu woman. (This was among the clauses supposedly due for reform by MBS. It’s unclear if this occurred, but similar laws exist across the Muslim world in places like Pakistan.)
America is not supposed to work that way. Unfortunately under Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, an acronym that can just as easily be rearranged to spell DIE as the familiar DEI, it does.
Biden’s plea deal with 9/11 terrorists is a profound betrayal, not just of his constitutional duties and our national values, but of promises made during the Obama-Biden administration by both Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be executed.
Like so much else, those were lies.
Instead the Biden administration warned that, “the Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements” that could “remove the possibility of the death penalty.” And it’s hard to imagine any such agreement that wouldn’t
Kill 2,996 people for Islam and you get life in prison, but kill ten people because you’re a racist and you get the needle.
9/11 family members have grown old and died waiting for justice. Meanwhile a corrupt coterie of terrorist sympathizers have kept the wait going to rot the system from within while finding every possible way to help America’s enemies.
A week after the anniversary of 9/11, a military judge struck the name of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a friend of the lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, who helped form the Hamburg cell at the heart of the 9/11 attacks, on account of a supposed “mental illness”.
According to his lawyers, the “key facilitator of 9/11” was so traumatized by “torture” that he has trouble sleeping because “invisible forces” make his bed vibrate and “sting his genitals”.
And the souls of 2,996 murdered people take a backseat to al-Shibh’s stinging genitals.
The Biden administration and its DOJ operatives are not pacifists who would never take a human life. As the Buffalo supermarket shooting case shows, they’re willing to demand the death penalty when the killer has done something sufficiently evil in their eyes.
Killing 2,996 people for Islam doesn’t meet that standard. Neither do most mere murders. Massacring children won’t meet that bar or even massacring Latinos or gay people when the motive is at all in question. Only exactly the right kind of racism merits the death penalty.
That’s why the Biden administration is freeing Al Qaeda killers. They may be terrorists, but they’re not racists. On 9/11, they massacred Americans of all races, sexes and orientations in the ultimate expression of diversity. And just to add equity, 2,435 were white, and 286 were black, making 9/11 a form of anti-racist DEI rendered in bodies falling from the sky.
If only Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had shouted a racial slur, he could be on death row now.
SC says
Why are we even worried. One day he will bump into the wrong sort of moslem and become a late headless mass murderer with his mastermind rolling around in front of him.
Ray Jarman says
Maybe someone could convince Hillery or Bill that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should commit suicide for the sake of the Democrats. That would put an end to the situation.
Barbara says
Allah Akbar is a slur. He person yelling is demanding I change religions?, if I don’t, I will be murdered.
Does that not count as bigotry.
Billy Willett says
The Biden administration shouldn’t be allow to do any federal action because Biden is a fake president.
somehistory says
Any White person going off the deep end, murdering another or many others, should forfeit his life.
any Black, Latino, or mozlum should do the same if he murders another.
The only qualifier is if the one killing does so in self-defense or defense of another.
so, the White guy who wants to kill in a supermarket…for whatever reason…can only escape the death penalty if he 1) claims to be mozlum or 2) if he says he is a 10 year old girl. He might get a Nobel Prize if he claims to be a 10 year old mozlum girl.
Or perhaps, he would be invited to the WH to hear the SOU speech. He could sit next to the woman made infamous for her death quest for her unborn child.
Rarely says
It is inconceivable that any terrorist ever be allowed to see the light of day again. Period.
It might be a good idea to take the cost of trial, imprisonment, etc. off any foreign aid payments to the country of their origin.
rick says
Great piece of writing but you forgot one thing. Black people vote and so do Muslims in the US. Black people want the Death Penalty for the Supermarket murders. Biden obliged for those votes. Muslims do not want to see a fellow Muslim put to death by the US even if they understand he probably should be. SO Biden also obliged for their votes. A win-win based on electioneering while tossing law and morality aside by and for Democrats.
James Lincoln says
22 years since 9/11 and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is still breathing?
Despicable!!!
OLD GUY says
No murder should be allowed more than three years to appeal their sentence , not only due we the people/ tax payers support this murderer at a high annual cost but we pay for the trial, his legal cost and 22 year appeal process. The lawyers love the gravy train, why else do they stretch these appeal processes out that long. He should have been executed 19 years ago.
Walter Sieruk says
The title of this article would have had been even better and more accurate if it had read ” If that 9/11 mastermind of 9/11 was a White man and had a uttered racial slur he would be facing the death penalty”
So if the Muslim villain was White, with all those far left -wing people in so much power he would, indeed , have him be executed . Not really for being behind the mass murder of so many people on September 11, 2001 but for speaking a “racial slur” Those leftists in power wouldn’t be honest enough to admit the the “racial slur” was the real reason and not the mass murders which occurred that terrible day was the reason they pushed for him to be put to death.
Waldorf says
I’m not too sure about your contention, Mr. Greenfield!
terry says
The crime bosses of the criminal nation-state syndicates must protect their own! The Globalist Elite clowns of the West, the Marxist buffoons, the Islam goons, and the all the Cartel zombie gangs, thugs, punks, and gangsta’s must stand together in order to feudalize their dominions without kingdoms! Ole baby-dada of all lies, Lucifer, must be very pleased with his three-ring circus show!