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Canada’s state broadcaster announced Friday that journalists will no longer be required to attribute the term “terrorism” when describing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “After reviewing our current language guidance, we have decided to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism,” said Basem Boshra, CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards and public trust... https://www.junonews.com/p/breaking-cbc-reverses-911-terrorism

FBI agents also didn't tell the Al Qaeda leader he could call a lawyer. Using the Article III system to try Al Qaeda terrorists was a reasonable solution, the trouble is that military tribunal personnel in this century look nothing like the guys who took a smoke break and sentenced Nazi saboteurs to death during WWII. Their ideal is A Few Good Men, they’re liberals if not outright leftists, and they’re far more likely to be on the side of the terrorists than to be on our side. The few Islamic terrorists whom Obama and Biden didn’t free from Gitmo...

Council on American-Islamic Relations, the US’s largest Muslim charity, blamed the 9/11 terror attacks on the country’s “support of Israel” and accused it of “state-sponsored Islamophobia” in its aftermath, according to since-deleted back-to-school material. The embattled nonprofit released its annual “Back to school resource guide” for K-12 students Monday, containing a link outlining the outrageous claims – but it was inexplicably yanked a day later. Screenshots obtained by The Post show the 16-page guide linked to a page that claimed the devastating Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans were masterminded not by Islamic terrorists but a “group...

Many of you who read Just the Facts know my 2003 book, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. It reached #2 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list that fall. Its final chapter, “The Interrogation,” broke the story of what Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah told CIA interrogators shortly after his capture. There’s front-page news today that brought me back to it —and what the coverage is missing. A military judge, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, has set a June 5, 2028 trial date for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three of his Guantánamo Bay...

A Smithsonian-affiliated museum features programming minimizing the 2,977 Americans killed by Muslim terrorists and instead says Arabs were also victims in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

https://thatpointtoo.blogspot.com/2026/08/only-long-hours-after-being-called-out.html Only Long Hours After Being Called Out by GOP's Rogers: Abulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Finally Distances Himself From Infamous Islamic hater Hasan Piker.A Long-Overdue DisavowalIt is telling that only after Mike Rogers publicly called him out did Abdul El-Sayed finally feel compelled to issue a statement distancing his campaign from Hasan Piker.For the record: Abdul El-Sayed released his statement distancing himself from Hasan Piker about 8 to 12 hours after Mike Rogers called him out (Google AI estimate).For months, Piker, the Turkish immigrant notorious "Americans deserved 911" guy (cofounder with his uncle Cenk Uygur: TYT), has been a prominent supporter...

Ward Churchill, the former University of Colorado professor whose writings and outspoken political views ignited a national debate over academic freedom and free speech, has died. His former lawyer says Churchill died of a stroke. ... Churchill was a longtime professor of ethnic studies at CU Boulder. He became a nationally controversial figure in higher education after an essay he wrote that referred to some of the victims of the 9/11 attacks as "little Eichmanns," a characterization that prompted widespread condemnation and made Churchill a national figure. The controversy soon expanded beyond his writings about the 9/11 attacks. In 2005,...

New Orleans has become the first city in the US to use artificial intelligence to answer emergency 911 calls — but critics warn it could have deadly consequences. The Orleans Parish Communication District — which gets over a thousand emergency dials a day, in what is among the highest volume of calls in the country — is routing the 911 calls to an AI agent that decides which ones get bumped to human dispatchers and which get handled by the bot itself, according to the Shreveport Times. “I was a 911 dispatcher for 11 years and this is the worst...

A California city pulled the plug on its entire computer network after a cyberattack knocked out key systems, including 911 routing and police and fire dispatch. Suisun City declared a state of emergency Saturday after malicious software breached its IT systems at about 5:45 a.m. Friday. The city’s response was drastic. Officials shut down the entire network to stop the threat from spreading and protect evidence for a federal investigation. Despite the digital chaos, Suisun City officials said residents are not facing an immediate danger. Emergency crews remain on the streets, with city dispatchers routing calls through the Solano County...

A German judicial panel in Munich issued a life prison sentence Thursday to an Afghan citizen responsible for a vehicle-ramming rampage during a demonstration last year that claimed the lives of a toddler and her mother while leaving scores wounded, AFP reported. The regional court found the 25-year-old defendant, named under local privacy guidelines as Farhad N., guilty on two counts of murder, 23 counts of attempted murder, and 22 counts of causing bodily harm, 19 of which were categorized as serious. Magistrates determined that the offender's actions bore a "particular gravity of guilt"... The vehicular assault took place immediately...

Wednesday's Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform, and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide." [snip] El-Sayed also accused Israel of "genocide” and described its conduct under Netanyahu as “bloodthirsty,” the latter accusation having ugly echoes of antisemitic blood libels. Politicians who oppose support for Israel often claim they’re not anti-Israel—just anti-Netanyahu. Not El-Sayed. By branding Israel an “illegal apartheid regime” that predates and outlasts Netanyahu, he made explicitly...

DSA Watch @DSA_Watch Hasan Piker calls the 700,000+ Haley Stevens voters and the 51% of Michigan Democrats that did not vote for Abdul El-Sayed "Islamaphobic pieces of shit."

Democrat voters in Michigan are jumping ship in droves after radical progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly clinched the Democratic Senate nomination Tuesday night. Even loyal MS NOW viewers and self-described liberals are openly declaring they will not vote for the socialist-backed candidate and will instead support Republican Mike Rogers in November. MS NOW host Chris Jansing herself reported the stunning defection: "And I want to tell you really quickly, as I was getting on the plane this morning, A guy who was a big fan of MSNOW said to me, 'I'm anxious to see who wins... I voted for Haley Stevens...

MIKE ROGERS FOR U.S. SENATE ROGERS ON MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE "The choice this November is simple: common sense or complete insanity. For more than 25 years, one party has controlled Michigan's two Senate seats — and they've run our state into the ground. They've driven 200,000 manufacturing jobs out of Michigan. They've dropped our schools to 45th in the nation. They've saddled families with the highest utility rates in the Midwest. Working people are paying more, earning less, and getting left behind. And now the same failed politicians are asking us to send Abdul El-Sayed to Washington....

A nonprofit funded by far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros is trying to silence a surging movement to keep NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani from attending the 25th-anniversary memorial for victims of the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows put out a statement on Tuesday that sharply contrasted with the views expressed by many other 9/11 victims’ families. It all but accused the Change.org petition of targeting Mamdani because he’s the city’s first Muslim mayor. “We strongly condemn the anti-American accusations and Islamophobic sentiment underlying the effort seeking to prevent him from being at Ground Zero,” said...

New York City’s mayor may not be welcome at events honoring the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, according to a new petition, but the mayor vows to be there anyway.With 50,000 signatures as of Thursday morning, the petition lays out concerns with Mamdani’s statements and associates, though some of them are disputed. Mamdani has been staunchly supportive of Palestinians, who he says have been unfairly bombarded by Israel in its war against Hamas, but critics argue Hamas gave Israel little choice. Though Mamdani has repeatedly called 9/11 a terrorist attack and reiterated that on Wednesday, his critics say they...

A prominent election-integrity activist has uncovered bombshell evidence suggesting that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 election victory may not have been legitimate. Marly Hornik, the founder of RealAmerica.Vote and NY Citizens Audit, has suggested that the 2025 election included large numbers of unqualified or nonexistent voters. But that’s only part of the problem. “I actually don’t know whether Mamdani won the mayoral race, and I’m not here to say that he didn’t,” Hornik said ... The problem we uncovered is that the New York City and the New York State Boards of Elections have no idea if Mamdani...

Mamdani Election Bombshell: More Fraudulent Votes Cast Than Margin of Mamdani's 'Victory,' Says Election Auditor "When our right to choose representatives is diluted or harmed, injured in any way, that is a serious crime in America." www.westernjournal.com 28 Jul 2027 ~~ By V. Saxena A prominent election-integrity activist has uncovered bombshell evidence suggesting that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 election victory may not have been legitimate. Marly Hornik, the founder of RealAmerica.Vote and NY Citizens Audit, has suggested that the 2025 election included large numbers of unqualified or nonexistent voters. But that’s only part of the problem. “I...

More than 5,000 people have signed a petition launched by relatives of 9/11 victims urging organizers to exclude NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani from the 25th anniversary memorial.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admits he lacks the legal authority to arrest the Israeli prime minister. But what does the episode say about the Democratic socialist's worldview? Plus, what can the GOP still accomplish this year in Congress? New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been running a campaign to demonize Israel and its supporters for committing “genocide[sic].” He should reconsider after Thursday’s double-stabbing in New York, which included a kippah-wearing Jew attacked after exiting a synagogue. Police arrested Raul Morales in connection with the stabbings. The mayor said victim and witness statements allege that Mr. Morales yelled “Allahu...