Hamas-Linked CAIR Study Guide Blames 9/11 on Israel, Recommends Reading Osama

Really, what did you expect? Besides hating and plotting to murder infidels, there is something else that Islamic jihadis and their allies and enablers do with furious consistency: They never, ever take responsibility for their actions. Every jihad massacre, if they admit it happened at all and don’t stick to the claim that the whole incident is a media invention, is someone else’s fault. And of course they have a favorite group that they love to blame above all others for all the atrocities that they and their brethren in the faith commit. Yeah, you guessed it.

After all, the Qur’an says: “You will find the Jews and the idolaters the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe” (5:82), so it’s only natural that Muslims would blame Jews for virtually everything. If they’re “the most vehement of mankind in hostility” to the Muslims, they must be trying to disrupt and destroy the lives of Muslims whenever and however they can, and the Qur’an and Islamic tradition are full of passages that reflect this view. So why wouldn’t they have staged 9/11 in order to bring down the full weight of “Islamophobia” upon Muslims?

The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that the New Jersey chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), to which the Post naively refers as “the US’s largest Muslim charity,” has advocated “teaching students that the 9/11 terror attacks were due to ‘America’s support of Israel’ and said, ‘terrorism is defined differently by different groups of people.’” Of course. Anything but admitting that the hijackers were Islamic jihadis acting in line with Islamic texts and teachings, killing unbelievers in accord with Allah’s command to “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5) in service of the overall objective of destabilizing and destroying the United States, the world’s foremost infidel polity.

The guide also “contains advice for Muslim students regarding their religious rights in schools, a section on ‘Discussing Palestine in the classroom,’ and a page on ‘Muslim Studies: 9/11.’ The page reads: ‘The catastrophic events of 9/11 catapulted the Global War on Terror, marking an aggressive shift in US domestic and foreign policy and an erosion of civil liberties through the Patriot Act, which practically targeted Muslims. The 9/11 attacks also marked a renewed and egregious ‘othering’ of Muslims and those who may appear to be Muslim, which has been evident in mainstream media, on campaign trails, in literature and advertising, and even in the classroom.”

In other words, “Muslims murder nearly 3,000 people, and Muslims are the real victims.” There was nothing, of course, in Hamas-linked CAIR’s guide about Islam’s jihad imperative, or the increasingly common boasts from Muslims in the U.S. about their imminent takeover. Nothing about law enforcement and intelligence officials actually dealing with a genuine threat. Instead, it seems as if CAIR wants students to assume that 9/11 had nothing to do with the hijackers’ Muslim identity, and that Muslims were cruelly scapegoated as a result. CAIR also, of course, is silent about how the Muslim population of the U.S. more than doubled during the period of the “egregious ‘othering’ of Muslims.”

And so this is how the guide described what happened on September 11, 2001: “A group self-identifying as al-Qaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan launched separate plane hijackings that ended up in different cities, causing the death of almost 3,000 people, and the resulting debris from the fallen towers caused lasting health issues in first responders.” So we apparently can’t even be sure that they were really al-Qaeda.

The Post states that the guide “then cites the 9/11 Commission Report as saying that al-Qaeda ‘launched the attacks in response to America’s support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the vast presence of the US military in the Middle East.’ It is important to note that while page 362 of the report does identify US support for Israel and American military presence in the Middle East as among the grievances that helped fuel al-Qaeda’s extremism, it at no point says 9/11 was in response to these things.”

Indeed, because it wasn’t. In his 1996 Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holiest Sites, Osama bin Laden said that “the worst catastrophe that was inflicted upon the Moslems since the death of the Prophet” was “the occupation of the land of the two holiest sites, Islam’s own grounds, the cradle of Islam, source of the Prophet’s mission, site of the Ka’bah.” Osama was primarily enraged because U.S. troops had entered Saudi Arabia in order to fight Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

The guide “also suggests students read the full text of Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America,’ which is hard to find online now after it became a TikTok craze in 2023 and the Guardian removed it from its website. But in that letter, Osama wrote: “What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam…. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah’s Word and religion reign Supreme.”

“Allah Word and religion” may only “reign Supreme” in this view when the fullness of Islamic law is imposed and enforced in society. That would requirement the replacement of the U.S. Constitution with Sharia.

After this guide brought unwanted attention to the unsavory gang of pro-jihad thugs who produced it, CAIR hastily revised it, and added this note: “An earlier version of the document did not go through proper vetting and included a link to a primary source document that was removed in November 2025.” Yeah, sure, CAIR, you’ve changed all your views now. Pull my other leg.