Seth Leibsohn: The Sin of Moral Equivalence

Seth Leibsohn: The Sin of Moral Equivalence

Author: Salem Podcast Network September 7, 2026 Duration: 1:00

“Some people did something,” one prominent Islamist member of Congress put it.  An Islamist candidate for US Senate wrote: those we killed in our response to 9/11 were equally to be mourned as victims just as the Americans killed on 9/11 were. He has also campaigned with a popular broadcaster who claimed the US deserved 9/11.  The Islamist Mayor of New York has posted on X there is no moral difference between those who were killed on 9/11 and those we killed in response.

This is how we lose the distinction between good and evil which, many thought, would never be confused again after 9/11.

Elie Wiesel wrote, “history is to civilization what memory is to individuals.”  For those of us who remember 9/11 accurately, we can never forget it, nor the fact that vast numbers of people with a medieval ideology still want us dead. 

Those engaging in moral equivalence about it are the handmaidens of hate.

If ignored, they will be the authors of our destruction—which, Abraham Lincoln reminded us, can only come from within.

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