25 Years Later, Yes, They’re Winning. By Robert Spencer.

The media narrative has been set in stone for years: the real victims of 9/11 were Muslims in the U.S., who for a quarter-century now have suffered from unreasonable suspicion, hatred, harassment, discrimination and worse at the hands of racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.”

And yet in reality, if Osama bin Laden and Mohamed Atta were alive today, they would look at what is happening in the United States with a deep sense of satisfaction. …

The jihad project to transform the U.S. into a Sharia state, which Osama bin Laden and his brethren tried to advance so spectacularly 25 years ago today, is going along quite nicely.

As ever-increasing numbers of Sharia-adherent Muslims are elected to political offices at all levels of the U.S. government, the entire leftist establishment continues to insist that Sharia is entirely benign religious law with no political content, to which only hate-filled “Islamophobes” could possibly object. …

Ever since George W. Bush proclaimed six days after 9/11 that “Islam is peace,” the U.S. government has focused on stopping jihad terrorists, without ever acknowledging in any way that other Muslims might be trying to extend the hegemony of Sharia over this country by means other than terror attacks. …

Under cover of darkness, the Sharia agenda continues to advance. The establishment does its part by spreading propaganda about how Muslims are poor, innocent victims, with no attention whatsoever to the 49,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11, or to the boasts of an increasing number of Muslims in the U.S. about their imminent takeover. …

 

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There are, however, glimmers of hope. More and more people are waking up to what Sharia involves. Numerous Americans are determined to resist. The jihadis and their allies and enablers have had a relatively easy time for the last twenty-five years. They may find the next 25 not to be so easy.

Whose side is the media on nowadays? By Bill Maher.

Ladies and gentlemen… Watch this now. pic.twitter.com/FRQ2zg5XUG

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) September 12, 2026

hat-tip Stephen Neil

 

The Rational Response to 911 — Not Taken. By Benjamin Weingarten.

The rational domestic response to 9/11 would have been for the federal government to engage in an extensive study of Islam, Sharia, the ideology and practices of both violent jihadist organizations and “civilizational jihadist” organizations, and then to calibrate a whole-of-government response to neutralize the threat posed by those animated by that ideology, and prevent it from coming to our shores and metastasizing to the greatest extent possible under the law.

Authorities would have surmised that our foes’ primary goal was to spread Islam over the world; that they would impose their totalitarian system using any and all means necessary; that that system was inherently incompatible with America, posed an existential threat to our republican system, and that its adherents would seek to exploit all of our freedoms — including our commitment to religious liberty — to advance their antithetical political and social project under banner of religion.

They would have acknowledged, in short, that our commitment to religious (and all other) freedom requires us to prevent threats to that freedom clad in religious garb — including from those seeking to overthrow our nation with a hostile, totalitarian, theopolitical ideology in the name of Allah.

Our response would have included closing the borders, a total freeze on immigration only to thaw once policies had been implemented to mitigate the threat, the rolling up and eliminating of Islamic supremacist support networks, deporting non-citizen promoters of such subversive and revolutionary ideology, likely a related denaturalization effort, eliminating foreign funding mechanisms of such activities to all relevant public and private institutions, etc. — anything and everything possible under the law to prevent Islamic supremacists from operating in or coming to the U.S., influencing let alone coercing us, and advancing their subversive cause in our body politic. …

But what did our ruling class do instead?

Its primary feature … has been to abide if not encourage mass Islamic immigration and integration into every aspect of American society.

Lefties, it’s not your civilization to give away.

I preferred the earlier situation where they live in their countries and we live in ours. That’s what countries are for.

Are we under attack? By Richard Fernandez.

After Beijing’s expansion in the South China in 2015 the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 seemed an unfortunate yet not necessarily related development.

But after it was followed by Oct 7, 2023 I looked at the map and asked myself the same question that occurred to many after the second tower was struck: are we under attack?

AI is the next big psyop after covid — building our digital jailer? By Edward Dowd.

Be very afraid, they are telling us:

On Tuesday … a young man by the name of Jacob Coxon put out a post on X…his first post ever and it went mega viral. He is a former employee of both Anthropic and OpenAI and he warned about the dangers of AI.

 

 

Within 24 hours Jacob‘s X post had received 123 million views 650,000 likes 190,000 followers. Even Elon weighed in and said “I don’t think this has ever happened for a post from a new account with almost no prior activity.“

Immediately mainstream media hopped on board to add to the virality of the post. The Wall Street Journal within a few hours had already interviewed Jacob and mainstream media piled on. Both sides of the house then piled on (mostly Democrats) with X post quotes calling immediately to ask for regulations and government interventions.

Ed calls bullshit:

I believe this is a well-orchestrated psyop to move the needle and change minds. Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “psyop”:

“A military operation usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state of mind through noncombative means… also: someone or something used by the government to influence the population’s opinions and attitudes.”

I am not saying Jacob Coxon is a government asset. I am saying the last 72 hours look less like a whistleblower and more like an inorganic panic narrative. …

Overnight the post printed nine figures in views. Hundreds of thousands of likes. The account went from nobody to a household handle before most of the country had coffee.

That is not how organic X speech works: organic speech stumbles, it posts a draft, it deletes a typo and it has a history. This account had a history of silence, then a professionally punchy script, then the entire mainstream media stack that ran with it with hours of post.

The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive interview with Coxon very shortly after the post went live. Business Insider, Newsweek, the New York Post, Mashable, and Deadline, all ran the same quotes within hours. Then the next day live interviews on Fox News and CNN. That is not one reporter getting lucky on a late night scroll. That is a package. In my humble opinion you do not get a WSJ exclusive and a 100 million view thread by accident unless the interview was already in the can.

Who benefits?

Let us start with who does not benefit:

• Not the open-source shops
• Not the startups that cannot afford a compliance department and a containment audit
• Not the Chinese labs, who will ignore the sermon and keep training regardless

The first beneficiaries are the two names in the original post: Anthropic and OpenAI.

They are burning cash at a rate that would make a 2000-2001 CLEC blush. Token prices keep falling. Enterprise demand is not doubling fast enough to offset it…. Capex is a black hole. Valuations only work if the story stays vertical and the competitive set stays small.

A federal moat with pre-certification, insurance mandates, criminal liability for unlicensed models does two things at once. It crushes the long tail of competitors who were eating their margins. And it gives the incumbents a political story to take to investors: “we are the responsible adults, the regulated utilities of intelligence, please keep funding the losses until the unit economics appear.”

The second beneficiary is the government itself (this push is mostly a Democrat project).

A cabinet-level AI agency means new appropriations, new buildings, new GS-15s, new contractors, new “advisory boards” stuffed with the same people who wrote the talking points. Hearings mean travel budgets and television time. Pre-certification means a permanent inspection class. Mandatory insurance means a regulated market the agencies get to supervise. …

Bottom line:

Could Coxon be sincere? Sure…people leave jobs and people get scared…sincerity and utility are not opposites. The most effective operations use a real person with real anxiety and then put a megaphone, a Journal reporter, and a legislative calendar underneath him. …

Watch the cash, watch the narrative, watch the fear porn, watch who benefits … this is elaborate Kabuki Theater. After the Covid psyop this is the next big push in my opinion. All the signs are present.

 

Also by Edward Dowd:

In May of 2024 Marc Andreessen had a meeting with the Biden White House where it was revealed that only 2-3 AI companies would exist due to government regulations and no startups would exist. He has been vocal about this meeting.

Then yesterday Politico suddenly writes an article disputing the meeting…love the timing. More evidence this is an op with the blessing of the deep state and three letter agencies. They want total control and a fusion of AI and the state.

The real fear shouldn’t we are all going to die but instead we are building our digital jailer.

The carpentry parable, by Eric Raymond (esr).

Imagine it’s the 1940s. You’re a carpenter. Power tools are beginning to replace hand tools for ordinary work. Furthermore, jobs that would have been impossible or ruinously expensive are suddenly within reach.

You show up at a worksite one fine morning and it’s being picketed. STOP POWER TOOLS! the signs say. WOODWORKING UNDER THREAT!

Puzzled, you accost one of the demonstrators and ask him why he has a signboard in his hand rather than tools.

“Power tools are a menace!” he says. “How are you going to train apprentices if they can’t feel the wood through their hands?”

“What happens when we can chew through aged quality timber faster than we can grow new trees?”

“Carpentry isn’t just a set of skills and habits, it’s a mindset. It won’t be any true carpenters left if we let this go on.”

You inquire further and discover that they have plans. Plans to exclude from any job they work on any craftsman who has ever used a power tool or even spoken approvingly about them.

Meanwhile, inside the picket line, a house is going up. Men are working. Cutting and joining the framing is going faster than you could have imagined 10 years ago.

You look at the workers. You look at the demonstrators. One group is talking. The other is getting stuff done. One group looks like the past, the other like the future. In this moment, you get to decide which group you’re going to join.

This [parable] was not about carpentry.

The Great Threshing Machine: Why We’ve All Lost Our Leftist Friends. By Edward Dutton at The Jolly Heretic.

Polarisation may have taken place for partly genetic reasons, as I’ve explored in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism.

In effect, we [are] under harsh selection for the traits, all of them significantly genetic, that are associated with conservatism: group-orientation, mental stability, physical health, pro-social personality and traditional religiousness.

With the collapse of child mortality [and thus, selection pressure], there was a massive build-up of mutation which would, logically, be expressed as the opposite of this fitness factor. Eventually, “individualism” (in the sense of being concerned with yourself and, thus, with equality and harm-avoidance), took over the culture and acted as a selection event — “Woke Eugenics” — sucking the unhealthy into its death cult of childlessness and leaving behind what we might call the remnant normal population from pre-Industrial times.

As part of this process, it has introduced policies which destroy social trust, such as mass immigration, which we know leads to distrust even among the natives because they fear that their fellow countrymen will collaborate with the foreigners….

Social media, such as Twitter, makes this process of coming apart so much worse. You quickly divide into niches, into echo chambers, and, once you’ve done so, whether you’re right- or left-wing, you competitively socially signal in a given direction.

Also, free from the constraints of having to rub along with people from the other side, it strikes me, you feel safer and so you allow yourself to “go down the rabbit hole” to “think the (previously) unthinkable” and, before long, the difference between you and those on the other side becomes a chasm and the “other side” really do seem like evil people who have no interest in your group-oriented values of obedience to traditional authority, in-group loyalty and sanctity. Further, because you feel safer, you fight back against Woke dominance, allow yourself to challenge it, and you start to build a parallel society. …

No more left wing friends:

As a middle-aged man, I bitterly lament the left-wing friendships that I’ve lost via this process. However, were we to meet up, it would be impossible to get along. …

In some cases, we are still “Facebook friends” but we can’t realistically have anything to do with each other anymore. In every battle in this Culture War, from Covid to trans, they were on the other side. It is as though we are not part of the same society. …

To the extent that political viewpoint is genetic, they will be more likely to end up with partners who are genetically similar to themselves than was the case in previous times, because they are likely to only socialise with such people. This will cause the chasm between Right and Left to grow even wider and we would expect this to lead, all else being equal, to a kind of sectarian society along the lines of the formerly Pillarised Netherlands (where there were parallel Protestant and Catholic societies) or Northern Ireland. In the Netherlands and in Ireland, the newspapers and even the universities were sectarian.

Phil writes:

While I understood how modern health practices would tend to reduce average IQ I missed that it would also (obvious in retrospect) affect mental health in the pathological sense. The effects on society are now visible.

hat-tip Phil

Are you a non-practicing white?

The term came to prominence outside lefty echo chambers recently when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was… *gasp“… black.

(The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s trial was the sole person of colour amongst them. This means eleven white liberals, almost all women, were intimidating a lone black man — to free a white child killer.)

Lindsay Clancy fan discovering that the lone juror is black might be the greatest video in history pic.twitter.com/jIAjIvMcU5

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2026

She said:

“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the conversation a little bit. A lot of us were assuming it was a white man.”

End wokeness:

I can’t get past the “non-practicing white” line. Here we have a person assuming that being white is like a social affliction, rather than the shorthand description for a person with sparse melanin content.

But yes, it’s a real term:

These people are crazy. Men can be women, and white people can be non-white? They keep changing the meaning of words to feel good about themselves, which renders communicating with them almost impossible and wastes our time.

Hands off Pauline. By Monica Smit.

One Nation is surging.

The political establishment’s old tactics aren’t working.

What will they try next?

The rhetoric against One Nation has escalated: the Prime Minister said One Nation was “dangerous” and “divisive”. The Attorney-General has publicly associated the party with extremists and neo-Nazis.

In February 2026, Australia introduced powerful new laws allowing organisations to be declared prohibited hate groups.

The mission of this campaign is for it to be a deterrent. The plan is there, ready to be activated, but we hope we never have to.

The plan activates if:

• One Nation is declared a prohibited hate group, or
• Pauline Hanson is detained

Regardless of the degree to which you support or dislike Pauline’s One Nation party, for the Albanese Government to ban it and criminalize its members would be an awful development for Australian democracy. (Duh.)

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Germans are so funny. By Bryan Breguet.

They can’t stop talking about the decline of democracy in the US under Trump but then they suggest to just ban the party that just won in Germany.

After Saxony-Anhalt, will Germany now consider banning the AfD?

The question that arose quickly after the AfD’s electoral victory was whether or not to ban the party. It is a question that comes up a lot in German society. But so far, [Chancellor] Merz and his CDU have remained largely silent on the subject.

Couldn’t happen In Australia, could it Mr Albanese?

The AI arms race is a life and death thing. By Joanne Nova.

The nation that gets “there” first may get access to their adversaries encryption codes, crack their firewalls, hack their software, design the better drones, anti-missile weaponry, cure diseases and own the patents the world wants, or create the bioweapons that sabotage crops, generate fuel, or kill or cripple millions of people. That’s assuming AI doesn’t conquer us first.

This is why data centres are appearing everywhere and the “clean energy” revolution got left by the wayside.

As [US Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent said today “There is no day after tomorrow if we lose.”

“Beating China — there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this,” Bessent said on Sept. 9 at Breitbart News’s “State of the Economy” event in Washington. “If they were to pull ahead of us on AI, then nothing else matters.”

— Arthur Zhang,  The Epoch Times …

Been hearing a lot of anti-AI “news” lately? Who paid for it?

There is one main beneficiary of anti AI sentiment in the West and that’s China. Given the existential battle, China would be crazy if they weren’t pumping money into grassroots protests about AI datacentres in the US. …

Virus doom:

Last month a team created 16 entirely new viruses with the help of AI.

These are not viruses you and I could catch, they only infect a bacterium called E. coli. But if they wanted to make a virus that could infect humans, it could soon be a lot easier and faster than it would have been back in the prehistoric era of say, 2019. This should make anyone sit up and pay attention.

A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage. It’s a tiny molecular-machine in the order of 200nm in length that replicates. Once inside a hapless E. coli, it commandeers the cells machinery to produce hundreds of clones of itself. This one pictured here is one of the 16 new types of virions.

 

Natural selection is so yesterday, way too slow. Now we have unnatural selection:

Before Large Language Models, a research team had to culture real viruses in the laboratory, and they had to do it again and again to generate random mutations. One experiment ran for 13,000 generations and took six months. That team found the virus had accumulated 11 new mutations every 20 days. Then they’d have to test each mutant to see if it behaved the way they hoped, but it was all so random.

Now they just ask the AI, which is trained on millions of genomes from all domains of life. It generated and evaluated thousands of different genomes, and narrowed the list to 300. The team synthesized these 300 different viruses in the lab and tested them to find 16 entirely new viable viruses. That’s never been done before.

AI doesn’t merely accelerate evolution. It proposed a genome on the other side of an evolutionary gap without nature having to walk through all the intervening generations.

Shhh:

In theory, if they dumped these new viruses into people, swamps or chicken pens which had the right E. coli, they might peter out in a day, infecting a few bacteria and vanishing. But it’s also possible it could eventually spread far and wide — a right nightmare for E. coli. These new viruses could live on and spread in perpetuity, killing a lot of E. coli along the way until the bacterium evolved some resistance, after which the virus would mutate to counter that.

I asked one AI if this was correct and it replied at length expanding on it, until seconds later it suddenly deleted its own answer and said “This content can’t be shown”. We’re especially careful with request6s involving biological research and applications that could pose safety risks.” Well that sure makes me feel safe…

Consider:

In the next world war, a bad global citizen country could acquire the capability to design viruses and maybe also the drugs or vaccines to save themselves, before unleashing them onto adversaries. …

The truth is we’ve always had deadly diseases to throw at any enemies — like Smallpox, Ebola, Marberg and Nipah. The thing that stopped us (apart from the morality bomb) is the blowback. Whatever virus is unleashed on the world will come back to hit the instigator too. This is where AI makes it all so much more dangerous. What if some overconfident General thinks his group has a vaccine that will save them? Suddenly the unthinkable becomes a strategy.

Everything bad is escalating. By Gerard Baker in The Australian.

The world is trapped in a vortex of steadily ratcheting tension. Events are whirling in a spinning cycle with powerful centrifugal force that threatens disorder: abroad, at home, in our lives and livelihoods.

Everywhere you look – international diplomacy, domestic politics, economics, technology – the risk of things getting worse significantly outweighs the chance they will get better. Each ratchet upwards brings the heightened prospect of calamity.

The planet’s two major wars are escalating. Russia and Ukraine are preparing for another dark winter. Vladimir Putin seems to be considering escalation, both vertical and horizontal, deepening and widening the conflict. Repeated hints that he may use nuclear weapons can probably be discounted but what he can now achieve through many more missiles and drones can be just as devastating. Russia increasingly threatens its neighbours with provocations and incursions designed to test Nato’s uncertain resolve.

The war in Iran, a misconceived act of hubris compounded by inept prosecution, sees Washington and Tehran locked in a race against time whose logic impels more war. Donald Trump needs to break the stranglehold the war has on energy prices and his approval ratings, preferably before the midterm elections in November. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps must lift the US blockade of its ports before its faltering economy collapses completely. Don’t expect Russia and China to stand by as that happens. Russia has been supplying weapons and intelligence to Tehran, and China remains its vital economic lifeline. The Houthis in Yemen are threatening again to escalate the shipping havoc in a region vital to world trade.

Etc., across several domains. Maybe the 1930s felt like this too, with the logic of escalation pushing the world to war, with poor leadership unable to steer us back to peaceable resolutions. China seems to be behind a concerted anti-western push, backing both Russia and Iran, so eventually this might spill into open conflict between China and the US.

NY Major Mamdani at Islamic Friday Prayer that calls for killing of infidels (non-Muslims). By Josh Howerton.

Watch 50 seconds:

Newsworthy, wouldn’t you say? On the anniversary of 911 no less.

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions. By Kurt Schlicter.

We still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly.

Say the quiet part out loud, and you are racist, sexist, transphobic, xenophobic, and every other -ist and -phobe that turns you into an officially bad person. You are supposed to shut up and bear the burden of other people’s deviance.

Youngsters today: Boys are defective girls.

Raw Egg Nationalist:

It’s worth remembering also that blind and non-blind tests shows that female teachers deliberately tend to grade boys lower than girls. No other civilisation in history has ever handed over young males to resentful women for their formation, except ours. It’s a disaster.

Rob Henderson:

“by four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them…teachers often see their female students as academically superior…they see things this way even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.”

Dale Stark:

A lot of guys my age and older don’t realize how much the world has changed over the past 20 years. Young, talented white guys have been shut out of every institution in America and told their only hope for a future is clearing toilets for their new female and Third World overlords. Of course they should work every angle and do the best they can, but just telling them to just try harder is extremely tone-deaf.

If you think I’m overstating it, put together a fake resume as a young white guy with your exact credentials at that age, then apply to top-tier schools and jobs, and see how far you get.

Collin Cleary:

I spent 30 years in academia. …

Toward the end, I was teaching “Gen Z.” These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.

Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears — or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.

TS Roosevelt:

I gave a lecture to medical students of this age cohort on diabetes treatment. In the course of it I said that the cachexia that patients exhibited made them look like concentration camp victims. I was reported to the Dean for triggering them and removed from the lecture pool.

Northern Barbarian:

I used to look around and think, how did we ever get here? To this incredible level of technology, prosperity, security that we enjoy. I mean, look at these people.

I knew it was the critical 1 percent or so of true innovators, inventors, another 5 percent or so of high-level leaders, entrepreneurs. 10 percent of diligent, competent managers, supervisors. And most of the rest doing their jobs. Most of the other 84 percent, minus 5 or 10 percent of layabouts, total shitbags, criminals. It worked.

Now I look around and think, how do we maintain this? Those percentages have shifted. Are the 10 percent who should be competent managers, supervisors, executing, making things happen, are they up to the task? In the 84 percent, what’s the layabout, criminal, parasitic, predatory percentage now? Even among that 5 percent of high-level leaders, entrepreneurs, how many have submitted to DEI nonsense … answer, about 95 percent … or have embraced assorted covid, gender, climate end-time bullshit?

The usual cautions with generalizations apply.