Muslims Are The Real Victims Of 9/11, According To Zohran Mamdani

Six days after Islamic terrorists murdered thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001 — as many victims remained unaccounted for, and as rescue workers continued cutting through the rubble — George W. Bush spoke at the Islamic Center of Washington. The president stated that the terrorist attacks, although they were committed by Islamists in the name of Islam, had actually contradicted the fundamental tenets of the faith, because, as he put it, “Islam is peace.” Bush also affirmed that Muslims in the United States “love America just as much as I do.”

Ask any historian, and they’ll tell you that Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech — delivered five months later, at the State of the Union — was the defining neoconservative speech of the era, the one that launched the global war on terrorism and established its objectives. But that’s not true. It’s actually not even close to true. The real goal of the neoconservative movement, from 2001 onward, was spelled out at the Islamic Center of Washington by George W. Bush, as Ground Zero was still smoldering.