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9/11: Light at the End of the Tunnel

Yesterday was the 8^th anniversary of the horrible September 11^th 2001 attacks known as 9/11 attacks. I am still horrified by the shear magnitude of the tragedy either for the event itself or the aftermath during the past 8 years of the 21^st century.

9/11: Light at the End of the Tunnel

Trilogy of Pain

Last year in the 7^th anniversary I placed my reflections for these attacks in the blog entry 9/11: A Walk to Remember, so for this year I am dealing with another angle about the pain I felt during the past eight years that was a ternary one as follows:

• 1^st Pain: As any human being, I shared the pain with either families of victims or survivors and cannot find any word to share with them except that the terrorists who commit this should be punished.

• 2^nd Pain: When a normal crime in a society happen we cannot call it anything but crime; hence when terrorism happen, we cannot call it anything but terrorism. I prefer clear terminology and against any other description for what happened especially by extremists.

• 3^rd Pain: I am aware that there are some Muslims who interpret their own version of Islam to serve their purpose; in parallel, portraying all Muslims as terrorists without knowing nothing about Islam except misconceptions and stereotypes is bad indeed.

I respect everybody and believe in the freedom of choice for people to believe in whatever they want to, not to force people into following anything generally and religion specially because everybody is simply unique and humans have minds to think about whatever.

This is simply what Islam calls and urge Muslims to do while dealing with Non-Muslims and any other version is not true; however during the President Bush administration, lights were spotted on this stereotyped image whereas same lights were dimmed on the real image. This was strange attitude for me since misconceptions were flawing while the scary movie of Islamophobia plus terrorism plays everywhere and it was hard to reach any light at the end of the hate tunnel at all.

Seeking the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Nevertheless, despite welcoming what he said, I felt quite strange when President Obama addressed his speech in Cairo University on June 4^th 2009 simply because what the 44^th POTUS mentioned was as if he read my published article in June 2008 over I-MAG Magazine or he was following my blog.

I do not think neither of them happened therefore I simply interpret this as a representation for the difference between someone who is looking forward to engaging people and someone who is not, without – of course – letting down the right of compensation for the victims because again what happened is an unforgiving terrorism from some people who got it wrong all the way through their tunnel vision of mentalities worldwide.

Consequently, justice is justice everywhere and humans are humans everywhere who should be protected and live in a healthy way. Coexistence is the key to live together in parallel to placing a critique for any volatilization for human values through stereotyped images and misconceptions committed by whoever regarding wherever and whatever which makes me wonder about our ability for de-stereotyping the image in the 21^st century!

In a nutshell, this post is open for all of you; place your tribute, place your thoughts or even read without commenting. I am looking forward to reading your thoughts plus reaching this day when we all can see the light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully!

Related Quotes and Sayings

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning. — John F. Kennedy

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Tags: 9/11 attacks, anti terrorism, islamophobia
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