Let’s see here: Atta twice makes threats, and later shows up in a disguise
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:43 am
I’m not sure, but I think most people would have dialed 9-1-1 after any one of those encounters, let alone all three!
So why didn’t Ms. Bryant? The article reveals two reasons. First, Ms. Bryant clearly is not the sharpest tack in the poster-board:
Atta also talked about life in his country. "He mentioned al Qaeda, he mentioned Osama bin Laden," said Bryant. "I didn't know who Osama bin Laden was … He could have been a character on Star Wars for all I knew."
The article notes that Ms. Bryant first met with Atta in April or May 2000. This shop is less than two years after al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tunisia. Less than two years after President Clinton responded by blowing up the Sudanese aspirin factory. Ms. Bryant’s TV viewing habits must have included only shows like “Entertainment Tonight,” and her reading habits consisted of solely the National Enquirer if the name "Osama bin-Laden" didn't ring any bells.
This passage reveals the second reason:
Bryant never thought to report her strange encounter because she thought she was just helping a new immigrant learn about the country.
"I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from, with all the violence, as compared to the United States," she says. "I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could make it."
It appears that Ms. Bryant’s shallow gray matter was thoroughly infected with the ideology of multiculturalism. That is, she believed the multicultural tenets that all cultures are equal, and differences between those cultures aren’t good or bad, they are just different. In fact, Ms. Bryant represents the most extreme form of multicultural thinking: differences are okay even if they tend toward violence.
I’ll conclude this blog by saying that this is a wake-up call—assuming another is needed—to those who think that the bad ideas that fester in academia don’t have any real world consequences beyond the walls of the ivory tower.
So why didn’t Ms. Bryant? The article reveals two reasons. First, Ms. Bryant clearly is not the sharpest tack in the poster-board:
Atta also talked about life in his country. "He mentioned al Qaeda, he mentioned Osama bin Laden," said Bryant. "I didn't know who Osama bin Laden was … He could have been a character on Star Wars for all I knew."
The article notes that Ms. Bryant first met with Atta in April or May 2000. This shop is less than two years after al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tunisia. Less than two years after President Clinton responded by blowing up the Sudanese aspirin factory. Ms. Bryant’s TV viewing habits must have included only shows like “Entertainment Tonight,” and her reading habits consisted of solely the National Enquirer if the name "Osama bin-Laden" didn't ring any bells.
This passage reveals the second reason:
Bryant never thought to report her strange encounter because she thought she was just helping a new immigrant learn about the country.
"I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from, with all the violence, as compared to the United States," she says. "I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could make it."
It appears that Ms. Bryant’s shallow gray matter was thoroughly infected with the ideology of multiculturalism. That is, she believed the multicultural tenets that all cultures are equal, and differences between those cultures aren’t good or bad, they are just different. In fact, Ms. Bryant represents the most extreme form of multicultural thinking: differences are okay even if they tend toward violence.
I’ll conclude this blog by saying that this is a wake-up call—assuming another is needed—to those who think that the bad ideas that fester in academia don’t have any real world consequences beyond the walls of the ivory tower.