Woods knows better than most: One month before 9/11, he shared a first-class cabin with four of the hijackers. He believes the Federal Aviation Administration failed to pass his warning on to the FBI because it feared accusations of racial profiling.

Actor James Woods is warning of what he describes as a Muslim invasion of the United States and believes the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York is the most dangerous event in modern American history.

Woods issued the stark warning during an appearance last Monday on conservative commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast, The Benny Show, writes Breitbart News.

Yes, I am prejudiced

According to Woods, the United States is the greatest civilisational achievement in history, but the country is now in grave danger.

“Think of the city where the World Trade Center stood, where people were slaughtered and lives destroyed. How can anyone possibly allow this Muslim invasion and this cancer?” Woods said.

He continued: “And then people say, ‘Well, what are you? Prejudiced?’ Yes, I am. I’m sorry to say it.”

Woods then addressed journalists who might be following the interview directly, urging them to quote him accurately if they chose to report his remarks.

“I am prejudiced against a religion that is, in reality, political jihad, and whose holy book says that all unbelievers must be killed.”

James Woods Declares NYC Electing Zohran Mamdani Will Be Known As The Moment When America Was GONE Forever

“I think the election of Mandani was the most dangerous event to happen in this country since, the Civil War and slavery, horrible, beyond imagination.”

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Woods told Johnson that he is himself a Catholic and has his own faith. He acknowledged that followers of other religions hold different beliefs and have every right to do so.

However, he stressed that he draws the line at a religion which, in his view, advocates violence.

“I am never going to join Team Islam when Team Islam says, ‘By the way, we’re going to kill every single one of you who isn’t like us.’ Then you have a problem,” Woods said.

The actor then made a bleak prediction about America’s future.

“They’re going to outbreed us and kill us. That’s going to happen,” he said, adding that this is already happening elsewhere.

Among other examples, he referred to the situation facing Christians in Africa, whom he said are being slaughtered and exterminated.

Towards the end of the interview, Woods questioned how Mamdani would mark the 25th anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks.

“What is going to happen on 11 September? Is Mamdani going to give a speech at Ground Zero?” Woods asked, laughing in disbelief.

Johnson replied that several families of victims of the 11 September attacks had urged Mamdani not to take part in such a commemoration.

Shared first class with the 9/11 terrorists

If anyone recognised at an early stage the threat posed by Islam and the terrorism associated with what he calls “political jihad”, it was James Woods. One month before the attacks of 11 September, he shared a first-class cabin with four of the hijackers.

“We are at war with an enemy that seeks our complete and total destruction,” Woods told CNN on 16 October 2001.

It is well known that several of the hijackers carried out reconnaissance flights on commercial airliners before 11 September. Journalist Sherry Sylvester wrote at the time that James Woods believed he had seen that enemy with his own eyes.

Woods frequently flew between Logan Airport in Boston and Los Angeles. On one flight before 11 September, he found himself in first class with four Middle Eastern men. Their behaviour unsettled him. They neither ate nor drank, never properly settled into their seats, and exchanged only brief, hushed remarks with one another throughout the flight.

In an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly after 11 September, James Woods said he had informed both a flight attendant and a pilot of his concerns, and that they subsequently reported them to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The warning allegedly never reached the FBI.

He also told O’Reilly that an FBI agent later asked him what had first made him feel that something was wrong. It was, of course, the suspicious behaviour during the flight, but also the fact that they had no luggage and the way they treated the flight attendant:

“When the flight attendant came over to them, they completely ignored her as though she didn’t exist, which is a kind of Taliban concept of womanhood: they’re not even human beings to them. And they didn’t order any alcohol either.”

Did the FAA fear accusations of racism?

While FAA officials and investigative reports at the time attributed the ignored warning to an understaffed bureaucracy buried under paperwork, Woods said later, in 2006, that the agency had hesitated to act out of fear of accusations of racism, or racial profiling.

Woods has since said that the FBI asked him not to discuss the details of the case publicly. Nevertheless, he continued issuing warnings. He told CNN that he had subsequently become aware of information indicating an imminent threat and stressed how vitally important it was for people to remain as vigilant as possible towards anything that appeared threatening or dangerous.

Woods continued to cooperate with the FBI after the attacks. He believed that many more terrorist attacks had been planned than those carried out on 11 September, and that the threat to the United States did not disappear that day.

“This is a terrible time. We are facing an incredibly motivated, incredibly calculating and incredibly disciplined enemy,” he told CNN’s Sherry Sylvester.

That was 25 years ago.

Woods has never stopped warning. He believed he saw the enemy then. Today, he believes the threat is far greater than it was before 11 September.