Reflections on 9/11 and Islam

Hello everyone. My name is AJ. I grew up

Muslim. I left Islam when I was nineteen,

and here I am today in the free world, reaping the benefits

of those who died to make it free.

So in memory of 9/11, I'd like to share a story about my

childhood

with you regarding 9/11.

In 2001, I was in a Muslim majority

country and I was a Muslim toddler.

I vaguely remember September 11th, 2001,

but I do remember when it happened, and I remember the celebratory sentiment

within the society, the news, at school, the mosque.

So the sentiment was there, and I am not the only one saying that.

Maybe two, five years after that,

Al Jazeera kept reminding the public of that

by posting videos and images of, of 9/11.

Think the towers falling, the fire, the video of

the airplane going into the tower, Americans.

So I asked my mother, as any other toddler would,

who do you trust the most as a

toddler? It's usually your mother. So I asked my mother.

While she was cleaning, I asked her, "Mother, why did Bin Laden--" I said,

"Why did Osama bin Laden attack the Americans?

And was it a good thing?"

My mother said,

"It's because they are supporting the Zionists of

Israel to take over Palestine, and if they stop doing

that, they wouldn't have had to deal with 9/11.

Was it a good thing? Of course, my son, it was a good thing.

It's jihad in the pathway or cause of Allah." Jihad

fi sabil Allah.

So

some people would say, "Well, maybe you grew up in an extremist

household," but

that's not the reality. That's not the fact.

Because I'm not the only one saying this, and a lot of dissidents are

saying such things regarding the public sentiment, uh, that

was celebratory or the mosque rhetoric

or public schools or the news.

This was public opinion. This was the average household.

This was the average mother and what the average mother would teach,

um, her kid if the kid asked.

So the civilizational war that w- that we're

dealing with is that we have this rhetoric.

You have people like me who are telling you that this actually

happened, right?

And then you also have people on the inside in the free world telling you,

"If you

say that, you are being Islamophobic." Guess what?

They can't say it to people like me because we're from there, we've lived it,

we've

done it, we've gone through it. But they claim this

Islamophobia from the inside to suppress the fact, to suppress the

reality that it actually did happen, right?

And it makes me feel bad as somebody who

has lived both sides. I've lived both realities,

being a Muslim in Allah

land and being a free member of the American society, of

the American people. I am a free person here.

I,

I owe nothing but allegiance to the country and to its people,

the American free people, and I'm going to tell you exactly what

happened to me.

I'm not going to hide. I'm not gonna hide. I'm not gonna hide anymore.

I already suffered for my apostasy, right?

I will remain committed to telling the American public of the ideology that I

grew up in, and I am telling you right now as somebody

who's listening to me,

the ideology is so widespread than you think it is.

The sentiment of hating America goes in line

with Islam as a doctrine, as a dogma, as a

theology, as a political system. It is the reason for

9/11. Islam hates infidels.

Islam does not stand that it is inferior in

capability, economy, culture, influence, global

reach to an infidel country such as America or such

as Israel or such as the European countries.

Islam resents the fact that it's having to

live under secular restrictions, under the rule of law.

Okay?

Islam wants you to follow it, wants to spread fear, and it used

9/11 to spread fear.

Do you think-- Just think for one second.

Do you think that Osama bin Laden,

who was following Allah, was thinking, "I am going to

do 9/11, and then that's gonna hurt America's

infrastructure or its economy or..." That wasn't the

point. The point was fear,

and they succeeded.

When I ask Americans how it was here in America,

where-- what they were doing when 9/11 happened, everyone has a story

to tell.

It worked that way, that it spread fear.

It s-- it, it traumatized the public.

So let us not forget who did 9/11,

and screw anybody who tells you about Islamophobia.

Okay? Do not hide it. Say it outright.

It is a bad ideology. It is cancer. It does not

deserve to live in the United States of America, and

if it does, it's gonna be very restricted

and it's going to be held

inferior 'cause it is sketchy, okay?

It is very sketchy. And unless we control that shit,

guess what?

We're screwed. We're literally screwed.

And as somebody who survived it, I'm telling you this.

And in honor of those who died,

may their souls rest in peace, and may we never forget

that Islam did it. Islam did it, Qatar had a hand

in it, and Islamophobia is not real.