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It’s September 11. And today marks the grim 25th anniversary of one of the most horrific events to take place in modern history: the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of almost 3,000 innocent civilians.

Oops – did we say “terrorist”?

You see, the CBC struggles mightily when it comes to calling terrorism “terrorism”.

You may recall that leaked memo penned by Basem Boshra. He’s the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News. We’re not making up that title.

Anyway, here’s what Boshra wrote:“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks. The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed.”

The memo is amazing for all the wrong reasons. First, if hijacking four commercial jets with the purpose of DELIBERATELY flying those jets into buildings in order to kill as many people as possible… if that’s not the dictionary definition of the word “terrorism”, then what is?

Also, Boshra himself admits in the memo that the planes were “hijacked” and the World Trade Center was “destroyed”. Well, how was it destroyed? Because those planes accidentally flew off course? Really? This is madness.

The CBC eventually begrudgingly reversed course after people justifiably expressed their outrage. But keep in mind that the CBC only “clarified” its terrorist policy vis-à-vis 9/11 after the CBC’s puppet masters, the Carney Liberals, also expressed outrage. Hey, don’t want to bite the hand that feeds, after all…

Still, what the CBC tried to pull off was despicable. And it was deeply insulting to those who died that day, including two dozen Canadians.

And that’s why we visited CBC headquarters in Toronto on Friday afternoon. We wanted to remind the CBC of the gross carnage that occurred on 9/11. And we brought along our big, beautiful billboard truck. We wanted to make sure that the CBC realized that the 2,996 people who died 25 years ago were victims of Islamist terrorism. We wanted to make sure the ideologues at the CBC understand that what happened that day was not due a series of unfortunate plane “crashes”.

By the way, we’d love to get Basem Boshra’s side of the story. But he appears to be in hiding these days. In fact, last week we paid a house call to the CBC to speak to him – or anyone else at the CBC. Do you know that it is IMPOSSIBLE to speak to anyone there? The lights are on but nobody’s home. Or they are too cowardly to face the music.

In the final analysis, enough is enough. Indeed, a quarter century later, did we truly learn anything from the Islamist terrorist massacre that occurred on Tuesday, September 11, 2001?

Indeed, look how the narrative has changed with the passage of time. Several mainstream media outlets are now running stories on how difficult it is to be a Muslim post 9/11. We’re not joking.

And that makes us speculate about the unspoken strategy of Basem Boshra. Namely, is his attempt to whitewash history all about Boshra not wanting to offend Islamists? Because in the bizarre world of Basem Boshra, hey, Islamist terrorists – and they’re supporters – have feelings too, you know…