The Enemy America Is Afraid to Name | Never Forget 9/11
[00:00] Jules, this is Ryan. I live on an airplane that's been hijacked and things don't go well. I'm looking good. I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to be good. Go have a good time. Same to my parents and everybody. I just totally love you and I'll see you when you get there. Bye, babe. Oh
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[00:48] that live on a calendar and then there are dates that live in your soul. And September 11th is one of them. It's a date when America learned that the unimaginable was not impossible. It's the date when 3,000 people left home expecting an ordinary day at work or on a trip and never returned home. And this week, we also remember Charlie Kirk. A husband, a father, a son, a friend, and a man murdered while standing on a stage speaking his mind. Two stories, but the same warning. A free country cannot survive if we forget who was killed, why they were targeted, or what happens when hatred becomes more important than human life. And tonight, we remember Charlie. We remember September 11th. And we ask the question that makes people uncomfortable. What has America learned? And what are some people now trying to make us forget?
[01:51] Charlie Kirk was 31 years old. He wasn't a soldier. He wasn't on a battlefield. He wasn't carrying a weapon. He was standing before an audience doing what he has done for years. He was talking. He was debating. He was challenging people and asking them to defend what they believed. You didn't have to agree with Charlie. You didn't have to like his politics. You didn't even have to watch his videos or attend one of his events. But you should understand what was taken from our country when he was assassinated, when he was murdered. A husband lost his wife's future with him. Children lost their father and parents lost their son. Friends lost someone they could call. And a movement lost its leader. And we probably lost a future president of the United States. And America lost another reminder. That public speech is becoming more dangerous when political enemies decide the person speaking is less valuable than the opinion they should hold.
[02:54] Charlie believed conversations were a fundamental component of our country. He went into college campuses because he believed people who disagreed with him were not enemies. They weren't enemies to be destroyed. They were Americans to be heard. And he gave them a microphone. He was killed. For speaking. He was killed for using his voice.
[03:19] Hear that again. He was killed. Because of the First Amendment. Yet his voice carries on. It's still being heard. And overnight after he was murdered, millions of Charlie Kirks were created. Charlie taught us we cannot be intimidated into silence. Charlie taught us to pick up the microphone. And his legacy will live on forever. And that brings us to... September 11th. Because Charlie's death was not the first time America was told that our freedom should be surrendered to fear. 25 years ago, Islamist terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and turned them into weapons. They attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the people aboard Flight 93, who fought back. Who said, let's roll.
[04:12] They weren't confused. They weren't misunderstood. They were terrorists driven by an ideology. They were terrorists driven by an ideology. A radical ideology that declared innocent civilians legitimate targets. And they're alive and well today, more so than ever before, some might argue. And they wanted America to believe that our freedom was fragile and that one spectacular act of violence could make us retreat from the world, from our values, from our culture, and from one another. They were wrong on 9-11. On September 11th, 3,000 innocent people were murdered. They were not a statistic when they woke up that morning. They were somebody's mother, somebody's father, somebody's child, somebody's best friend, somebody who promised to call when they landed off that plane. They expected to come home, and they never did. More than 400 first responders died on September 11th, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 NYPD officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers.
[05:14] While families watched the towers burn, while people ran through smoke, while New York. Filled with ash and sirens, while New Yorkers watched their fellow countrymen jump from windows more than 100 stories up. These men and women moved toward the screams. They heard that people were trapped, and they went in. They didn't know whether they would survive. They knew only that someone else needed help. And they ran to give them help. They are America's fighters. When we say never forget, we're promising to never let anyone destroy the fight within us. The threat 25 years later. After. The attacks to streets in Islamic countries were filled with celebrations. Look at this. We're seeing people applauding, clapping, smiling, happy to to know that thousands of Americans have died in this sneak attack. And there you see a V for victory sign held up to the camera. Now, 25 years later, the threat remains. New York should know better than most. New York watched the towers fall. New York buried its firefighters.
[06:16] New York carried the names of the dead. That day was a moment this country actually acted like a country. We all knew where we were at 846 a.m. when the first plane hit the tower. We knew where we were when the second plane hit the second tower. And as a nation, we were we were woven together. We were sewn together like a quilt. We connected. People were angry, but we were united. We watched as President Bush sat in elementary school when he was notified waiting to depart. We saw his nervousness. And a shock on his face.
[06:52] Now, look at us. We've got a pro-Palestinian movement being pushed by the Democrat Socialists of America. We have a group of revolutionary anarchists, Antifa street militants. We even have Trantifa. In addition to that, we have radical activist marauders whose division, whose goal is division. I mean, we have Hassan Piker, who said that America deserved 9-11. America deserved 9-11. Now, a generation of young Americans have fallen in line because they were taught that America is the enemy. America is not the enemy.
[07:28] Radical Islam is the enemy. It is not a religion of peace, by the way.
[07:34] It is a religion pushing Sharia law. It's a religion that kills women, stones in the death for the crime of showing their hair.
[07:43] They don't like gays either, by the way. All you tranny gay people that are marching through the streets for radical Islam. It's not how this works. But after 9-11, we knew that we were Americans first, and we shouldn't let our country fall to them. If you sympathize with Hamas, if you celebrate terrorism, if you sympathize with organizations that target civilians, you should not be entrusted with the city of New York. But yet here we are. The mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, said that Muslims were the real victims of 9-11, and his, quote, aunt was too afraid to take the subway because she feared being attacked for wearing a hijab. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who
[08:30] stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
[08:37] It was later revealed that his aunt didn't even live in New York at the time. She was in Africa, because he's from Uganda, by the way, rich family in Uganda. She didn't wear a hijab, was actually his father's deceased distant cousin. He says Islam is pro-migration. And I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative. A narrative of migration. Mamdani has done nothing but spit in the face of 9-11 families and survivors, but then handed the ceremonial pin to someone who proudly defended a literal enemy of this country for a bin Laden ally. It's unreal. It's not just the mayor of New York City. The governor of New York is showing us what 9-11 means to her. Kathy Hochul visited an Islamic center days ago wearing a hijab, speaking to only men in the room because women aren't allowed in. Women, by the way, so much for being a feminist. The self-described feminists voluntarily wore the hijab to not arouse the Muslim men who were present.
[09:40] Showing respect for the pedophile-worshipping death cult, she shamelessly betrayed all women, all Jews, all victims of Islamist torture, murder, and terror.
[09:52] 9-11 is now a meaningless number to these people. Tomorrow America remembers.
[09:59] Real true America. And as New York will commemorate the lives we lost 25 years ago, 100,000 Americans have stepped up, signing a petition to keep Mamdani away from the memorial site. Our petition is not about Mayor Mamdani's religion or where he came from. It is strictly about the policies that he has today. So we are asking him to respect the fact that that trauma is revived. During the ceremony. It is a private ceremony. It is not a public ceremony.
[10:39] Mayor Mamdani, please do not come. They don't want to see an Islamic sympathizer at the memorial where radical Islam killed 3,000 Americans. I don't either. In closing, this is the promise. Charlie Kirk was killed for speaking. The victims of September 11th were killed because terrorists believe America could be terrorized and to surrender. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now. We can grieve without becoming weak. We can seek peace without pretending evil does not exist. We can debate fiercely without celebrating murder. We can welcome faith without allowing any ideology, religious or political, to place itself above the law or above human life. So remember Charlie Kirk.
[11:28] Remember the 3,000 people murdered on September 11th. Remember the firefighters and police officers. There's some first responders who raced into hell. Remember the families who waited for calls that never came. Remember the survivors who carried the dust and grief for decades. And remember this. A political opponent is still a human being. A terrorist is still a terrorist. And no matter what happens to America, we must stand united against terrorism. All terrorism. We will not surrender this country. Our patriots died protecting. God bless. God bless Charlie Kirk's family. God bless the families of 9-11 and all of the victims. God bless our first responders and our troops. And God bless the United States of America.