The largest Muslim charity organization in the United States published — and then quickly removed — an education “guide” blaming the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American support for Israel.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations initially released the materials as part of the “Back to school resource guide” that went live on Monday — and it laid out a number of dubious claims about the 2001 attacks in which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed between the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and four hijacked commercial flights.
One such claim, shared by The New York Post, was that the attacks themselves had not been planned and carried out by Islamic terrorists, but rather by a “group self-identifying as Al Qaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan.”
The resource material, titled “Muslim Studies Curriculum,” also asserted that American involvement in the region was reasonable justification for attacks on the United States. Continued support for Israel and the United States military’s role in the Gulf War were also cited.
The group’s assessment of the situation after the 9/11 attacks went even further, suggesting that the United States had created an “Islamophobic” culture with the ensuing Global War on Terror. Specifically, the group asserted that the words “terrorism” and “terrorist” were reserved solely for Muslims.
“While Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism existed long before the 9/11 attacks, this time period marked a stark shift in US policy and state sponsored Islamophobia in the U.S. and abroad. There was immediate backlash against anyone perceived to be Muslim,” the materials read, and presented arguments suggesting that political violence from non-Muslims was often met with less backlash.
Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” was included in the guide as a “resource material”: “Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.”
Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mother Frances was killed on 9/11, said he believed the misinformation campaign was intentional: “The further we get from 9/11, this new generation of kids will learn to blame our country. These kids are going to be poisoned – and that’s the intent.”
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sounded the alarm on CAIR almost a year earlier in a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon dated September 9, 2025.
“I write to alert you to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) efforts to influence K-12 schools … It is well documented that CAIR has deep ties to pro-Hamas terrorist organizations and publicly supports Hamas’s terrorist activities,” Cotton wrote in part.
“Such an organization should never have access to our nation’s children,” he asserted, adding, “The organization offers ‘educational’ materials on its website that perpetuate pro-terrorist, anti-Israel rhetoric. CAIR Philadelphia recently issued guidance for educators titled ‘Remembering and Reflecting: Teaching September 11, 2001, in Diverse Classrooms.’ The guide directs teachers to avoid using ‘inaccurate and inflammatory terms such as ‘Islamic terrorists,’ ‘jihadists,’ or ‘radical Islamic terrorists,’’ when describing the September 11 terrorists.”
“The U.S. Department of Education must ensure that CAIR is not given an opportunity to push its radical, pro-terrorist, anti-Israel ideology on American schoolchildren,” he concluded.
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