{"id":90170,"date":"2025-10-26T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=90170"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:51:06","slug":"op-ed-cair-curriculum-urges-nuanced-approach-to-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/op-ed-cair-curriculum-urges-nuanced-approach-to-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: CAIR curriculum urges \u2018nuanced\u2019 approach to 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DANIEL GREENFIELD<\/p>\n<p>(<em>FrontPage Magazin<\/em>e via <em>JNS.org<\/em><span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013<\/span>Frankly, why not? The political class of the city where most of the 9\/11 deaths took place is on the verge of electing an&nbsp;Islamist&nbsp;who just met with a jihadist imam who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3857603\/zohran-mamdani-terrorist-mutual-friends-siraj-wahhaj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused to condemn<\/a>&nbsp;Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78025\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78025\" class=\"wp-image-78025 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-1024x569.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-768x427.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden.jpeg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78025\" class=\"wp-image-78025 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-1024x569.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden-768x427.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bin-laden.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-78025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osama bin Laden in an undated photo in Afghanistan. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syria has been taken over by Al-Qaeda\/ISIS with our support, we\u2019re in the middle of bailing out Hamas, and just gave Article V protection to Qatar, which harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the perfect time for the new&nbsp;CAIR&nbsp;(Council on American\u2013Islamic Relations) curriculum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;CAIR&nbsp;NJ chapter&nbsp;describes it as helping&nbsp;\u201cteachers adopt a more nuanced approach to 9\/11 in their classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the more \u201cnuanced\u201d approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe U.S. fought the Soviet Union who had invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s by supporting the rebels that stood up against the Russian invaders, including a man named Osama bin Laden and people who later formed the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA man named Osama bin Laden\u201d standing up to \u201cRussian invaders.\u201d Also the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CAIR curriculum then urges teaching Osama bin Laden\u2019s \u201cLetter to America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cLetter to America\u201d was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/the-dead-al-qaeda-hippie-who-went-viral-on-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not actually written by Bin Laden,<\/a>&nbsp;but by a leftist American hippie who converted to Islam and produced propaganda meant to manipulate Americans. Urging people to read it is not a way of understanding Al-Qaeda\u2019s motives but rather to spread Al-Qaeda propaganda to Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the difference between reading about Hitler\u2019s plans and a transcript of a Lord Haw-Haw broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CAIR curriculum describes 9\/11 as a \u201cgroup self-identifying as Al-Qaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan launched separate plane hijackings\u201d in response to \u201cAmerica\u2019s support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the vast presence of the U.S. military in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia. They used vectors such as Germany. The attacks were not about Israel, and CAIR elides the stated justification, which is a religious objection to infidels being in the land of Mecca and Medina, not the \u201cvast presence of the U.S. military in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest is the expected \u201cMuslims are the real victims of 9\/11\u201d stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism existed long before the 9\/11 attacks, this time period marked a stark shift in U.S. policy and state-sponsored Islamophobia in the U.S. and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It then spends far more text on the supposed Islamophobia than on 9\/11, where the deaths get about one sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many teachers are adopting this \u201cnuanced\u201d approach of circulating Al-Qaeda propaganda and describing Osama bin Laden as a man standing up to \u201cRussian invaders\u201d as his defining identity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better keep an eye on your schools.<\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Greenfield is an Israeli-born journalist and columnist with nearly 20 years of experience writing for conservative publications. 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