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Canada's Nat'l Broadcaster Bans Calling 9/11 'Terror Attacks': Instead, 'Hijackings Led to Passenger Air Crashes'

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27.08.2026

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When is a terrorist attack not a terrorist attack? To Canada’s state broadcaster, apparently when it’s the largest one ever perpetrated but has a nasty little angle exposing the truth about radical Islam.

This September, as you’re no doubt aware, marks 25 years since the 9/11 attacks claimed nearly 3,000 innocent lives in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. They were carried out by 19 terrorists trained and funded by al-Qaeda using four hijacked airliners as guided missiles.

This isn’t hard to describe. Unless, of course, you’re the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust” at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news division, a title I put in quotes because it’s a job title that functions in much the same way that Kim Jong Un refers to his nation as the “Democratic Republic of Korea.”

On Wednesday, a commentary writer for the Toronto Sun tabloid published part of a confidential memo by that senior director, Basem Boshra. In it, he makes it clear what his charges are not to do as we approach the anniversary of the deadliest terror attack in world history:

“Do not refer........

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