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Twenty-one years on, and where are we? What do our children know about 9/11 and the Islamic terrorists who attacked our country in the worst attack on our homeland in American history? In a word, nothing. Or worse. Why did the attackers do this? Discussing their motive today, twenty-one years later, is tantamount to a hate crime. The jihadis’ last letters have all but been scrubbed from the public record. Read the “martyrdom” letters left by the Muslim terrorists. Allah is mentioned over ninety times. “Remind your brothers that this act is for Almighty Allah,” done for the cause of...

Ambassadors usually do not have to announce they are against suicide bombers. But for one Biden nominee, it turned out to be necessary. In 2006, Amy Gutmann was the president of the University of Pennsylvania. During a Halloween party in her home, she posed for a photo with a student who was dressed as a terrorist. The picture resurfaced after Gutmann was approved by the Senate on Feb. 8 to be President Joe Biden’s ambassador to Germany. According to a Jerusalem Post article from 2006, Gutmann only issued an apology after days of growing controversy over the costume worn by...

Anonymous alleged “U.S. and congressional officials” told the Wall Street Journal this week President Joe Biden is planning to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a nearly 60-year-old terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, from America’s list of designated foreign terrorist groups. The FARC, a communist group, has been responsible for a wide variety of human rights atrocities in Colombia since its founding in 1964 that include mass killings, kidnappings, child rape, forced abortions, the use of child soldiers, and one of the world’s most lucrative drug trafficking operations. The government of then-President Juan Manuel...

President Trump while in office had the Houthis in the Middle East designated as foreign terrorists, triggering leftists across America as well as 22 aid groups operating in Yemen, who all demanded that designation be removed. When Joe Biden took office, he did that. Now they've stormed the American embassy in Sana'a, Yemen, seizing "large quantities of equipment and materials." The report comes from PJMedia, which noted, "Isn’t it great that America is back and the adults are back in charge? America is back, all right: all the way back to 1979, the last time we had a president so...

Could the murder of a Lyft driver in Garland, Texas, be the first in a new wave of terrorist attacks spawned by President Joe Biden's disastrous retreat from Afghanistan? That question was posed by the editorial board of Issues & Insights after an FBI official said Monday that Imran Ali Rasheed might have been "inspired by a foreign terrorist organization" to kill Isabella Lewis and then drive to a nearby police station and begin shooting people inside. The FBI got involved in the case after local police found a note in the Lyft driver's car. "What, we wonder, could have...

In the past month 212,000 illegal aliens have overrun the southern border of the United States. In the past week, the Taliban has overrun American military outposts, and taken for their use—American military equipment, as they prepare to declare victory in the fight that began on 9/11 with planes flying into American buildings. In the past day you were labeled a terrorist, by—get this—your own Department of Homeland Security. (A department established in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with the expressed intent of stopping real terrorists.)

Published April 14 by the pro-al-Qaida publisher Jaysh Al-Malahim Al-Electroni (Electronic Battle Army), the magazine features an article titled "The Lone Wolf And The Protests," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. The article provides tips on which kinds of protests are easier and more effective to infiltrate. And it says a lone wolf should choose a "massive chaotic protest," preferably at night, that take places daily and contines for a long time. The terrorists should disguise themselves as protesters and pretend to have similar views to infiltrate the protesters and steer them to violent actions, such as car...

A couple was arrested this week in Newark, New Jersey, on criminal charges regarding their alleged attempt to provide material support to ISIS, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday. “According to court documents, James Bradley, 20, of the Bronx, New York, and Arwa Muthana, 29, of Hoover, Alabama, are ISIS supporters who attempted to travel to the Middle East to join and fight for ISIS,” the agency stated. Bradley has allegedly voiced support for the terrorist group and his desire to be part of it overseas or commit a terrorist attack in America. “Bradley and his wife, who...

The Thursday morning shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is being treated as an act of terrorism, according to FBI officials. "We have determined that the incident this morning at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is terrorism-related," FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Leah Greeves said in a Thursday media conference. At about 6:15 a.m., security forces responded to an active shooter at the Texas base, and he was quickly neutralized. FBI agents confirmed that the shooter had been shot at the scene. "The subject is deceased, the scene is still being processed," Greeves said. Although the agency declined...

A Sudanese national in the French town of Romans-sur-Isere, just south of Lyon, went on a rampage Saturday on a busy street attacking 7 people, killing two and wounding five. Police arrested him without incident when he was found kneeling on the ground "praying in the Arabic language." ABC News: In a press release, the Counterterrorism Prosecutor's office revealed that "handwritten documents with religious overtones in which the author of the lines complained in particular of living in a country of disbelievers" were found duringa search carried out at the suspect's home. The alleged perpetrator was taken into custody on...

Franklin Roosevelt coined the name “United Nations” for the allied countries fighting together against the National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi) and their totalitarian axis powers. Speaking on Justice for War Crimes, March 24, 1944, Roosevelt explained the original goal of the United Nations involved protecting the Jews: “In one of the blackest crimes of all history – begun by the Nazis … the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabated. … Hundreds of thousands of Jews … are now threatened with annihilation as Hitler’s forces descend. … The United Nations have made it clear that they...

The most alarming audience, however, was one that the attackers had not envisioned. Within days, the one-minute, 16-second recording spread rapidly across networks associated with the far-right and white-nationalist movements. Extremists posted gruesome scenes of the women's deaths on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms alongside condemnations of Islam and calls for a civilizational clash. "Look at this video of the one girl being decapitated alive," wrote a far-right figure in Norway as he posted a link to his Twitter account. "It's God awakening us Germanic men to action. It's enough now. It's enough." When officials in Norway and Denmark pleaded...

For years Border Patrol agents have expressed concern about America's immigration policies, saying that the United States' southern border was vulnerable. They have expressed concerns about a potential terrorist using the United States-Mexico border as a means of gaining access to America to carry out a terrorist attack. And, not surprisingly, their fears have become a reality. Border Patrol agents are extremely overwhelmed along our southern border. They are spending the majority of their time processing people instead of actually protecting our border. Up until now, we haven't really seen terrorists utilize our southern border to carry out an attack....

Predominantly Sunni jihadi groups carried out 187 terrorist attacks across nearly 30 countries on Ramadan this year, driving the number of fatalities up to 911 and injuries to 1,006 when compared to the casualties during the holiest month for Muslims in 2018, a Breitbart News database analysis shows. The number of deaths went up by about ten percent, from 841 last year to 911 in 2019. The overall number of casualties, including injuries, slightly increased by less than five percent from 1,855 (841 killed; 1,014 injured) to 1,917 (911 killed; 1,006 injured) in 2019.

More than 10,000 illegal aliens from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism are living in the United States, according to federal data. The countries of origin include Iran, North Korea, Syria and Sudan, said the Immigration Reform Law Institute, or IRLI, which referenced the data in a study reported by Breitbart News. The illegal aliens either have been ordered deported or have pending deportation orders, despite remaining in the U.S., Breitbart said. A total of more than 1.7 million illegal aliens remain in the U.S. despite having been ordered deported or having pending deportation orders. IRLI Executive Director Dale...

Police in Germany have arrested 10 people on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack. The arrests were made after some 200 police officers carried out raids in the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The men had plotted to "kill as many 'non-believers' as possible" using a vehicle and guns, prosecutors said. A 21-year-old man from Offenbach, near Frankfurt, and two 31-year-old brothers from Wiesbaden are the main suspects. "They had already made contact with different arms dealers, rented a large vehicle and collected financial assets to use for the purchase of guns and the execution of the planned murders," a...

A federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted five Muslims who allegedly trained children to carry out school massacres on terrorism-related offenses, conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping. The five were arrested Aug. 3, 2018, after authorities in a raid found 11 hungry children living in squalid conditions in a remote, makeshift training compound. The leader, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, is the son of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a former board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who is on record urging a violent overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government. The elder Wahhaj gave an opening prayer at an event...

An ISIS-supporting media group threatened New York City attacks for New Year's with suggested tactics including snipers and package bombs. The latest threat circulated online follows other message from jihadists that have specifically cited Jan. 1 in calling for attacks. One poster distributed online in mid-November superimposed a masked jihadist wielding a bloody knife over a collage of images from the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack. It stated that New Year's Day is "the date of retribution." Shortly after that, an ISIS-backing media group released an image of a demolished cityscape with multiple fires, warning, "Soon, Allah willing, the disbelievers...

Ammar Campa-Najjar, who constantly portrays himself as a moderate Democrat Christian of Mexican-Palestinian origin, has a funny past he might want to address. These days, he's yelling about his opponent Duncan Hunter, Jr.'s ads as, you guessed it, 'racist.' At the same time, retired generals are warning the public he's a security risk. Latest out from Breitbart News is that he praised his grandpa Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, the chief of intelligence for the Black September terrorist outfit as a 'legend' to live up to as recently 2015. Kid you not, here it is, and you can see the actual Instagram...

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has revealed direct links between terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan and cells in both Britain and “the whole of continental Europe”. The Tory MP revealed the threat in an interview with Sky News from Afghanistan’s northern city of Mazeer-i-Shareef. “What we see is a real threat posed by these groups to the UK and we’ve got to be acting as we are to ensure that we do not see future Manchester-style attacks,” Williamson told Sky’s correspondent. “We consistently see terrorist groups operating here in Afghanistan, [and] evidence of their links back not just to the...