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Twenty-five years later, September 11 still isn’t history to those families. It’s personal. And there was a time when presidents understood the particular weight of this day. George W. Bush certainly did. Whatever else anyone thought of his presidency, September 11 was never just another square on his calendar. He understood what had happened, who had done it and why. Donald Trump understands that too. In between, something changed. Barack Obama increasingly spoke about September 11 and Islamist terrorism through the lens of America’s treatment of Muslims. His administration seemed far more comfortable warning Americans about Islamophobia than it was...

The PC Jihad By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | February 10, 2003 As a new front on the War on Terror edges ever closer to opening, most Americans don’t seem to be much clearer about what we’re up against than they were on September 10, 2001. While al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups, and even the relatively secular Saddam Hussein, fulminate and plot against the United States in the name of Islam, within the confines of the Great Satan it’s virtually taboo to ask any questions about the role that the Religion of Peace may be playing in the motivation and...