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“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Separating Fluff and Bull from Facts and Fiction Volume VI “Remembering 9/11”

September 8th 2010 14:01
On the ninth anniversary of the worst attack on American Soil the American Public is still scrambling for answers. Answers to all the questions that still swirl around the day the world realized the safety net surrounding the continental United States was fictional.

September 11, 2001 was the day the conversation changed about our role in the world and how the impact of conflicts thousands of miles away from American shores affects our interests here at home.

Through this understanding was also the creation of side stories in looking for blame through conspiracy theories, past and present elected officials for not listening to the warning signs and escalating the actions of radicals into a greater religious and social war against cultures most Americans do not and will never understand.

In the years following 9/11 a slow whisper about attacks perpetrated by the religion of Islam has grown into a rallying cry for partisan interests in what continues to be pitched as a "defense action" for the memories of victims from a terroristic attack orchestrated by radicals to drive a wedge in western society.

In what began as a call to honor the victims of the World Trade Center Attacks by barring anything Islamic on the hallowed grounds of where the World Trade Center once stood has escalated into a full scale war on the construction of Islamic Centers across the entire United States of America and has now evolved into a planned mob scene that will involve the burning of religious texts to commemorate the ninth 9/11 anniversary.

If we look back in history to every mass movement to act upon an entire race, religion or political thought it always begins with an item being burnt and eventually escalates to the burning of a human being.

The way a society escalates into mob mentality is when we lose our sense of ourselves.

The sense that should tell us to respect another man or woman’s right to worship whatever religion they choose to worship the same way we would want others to respect our right to worship the religion we hold dear to our hearts.

The 9/11 attacks were not the work of the entire religion of Islam and it’s billions of followers across the globe but much like the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Mass Suicides orchestrated by Jim Jones this was the work of men and women who twisted the meaning of their respective religion into their own vision of chaos and destruction through radicalism.

The more we give into the things we fear in forming false conclusions about the way things are in the world and why things happen the more we leave the door open for opportunities to form and support double standards that will eventually escalate into everything our country stands against.

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Today’s discussion is a direct response to an MSNBC article which can be read by clicking the link below.

Attorney general: Quran-burning plan 'idiotic, dangerous'


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