I was motivated to respond to your simplistic views. Do you get your world view from the Sun or Fox News? As mentioned by another person above, the people behind 9/11 do not want to convert you by holding a gun to your head, they principally want an end to US influence in the Arabian peninsula. You talk about this being the day that “America took a stand”, ironically from the Al-Qaeda side thats exactly what they did except they do not have F-22 Raptors and tanks – they have to resort to other methods.

For a quality read about the historical context of this subject up to the modern day I recommend “The Clash of Fundamentalisms” by Tariq Ali. I really hope you do as it would be sad to see your narrow views propagated even further. 9/11 changed my life too – as a Muslim I suddenly felt very concious of an unfair negative image of my community and associated stories of discrimination in all spheres of life.

Incidentally, I admire America – I really do. Their philanthropy, their success in business, technology, culture and sport. It is just the current batch of leaders are a bit of letdown. I think the American constitution is an inspiring foundation to build a country on.

To the haters, you have to remember that every country that has been around for any length of time has suffered AND committed atrocities. Anyone here claiming their country of origin has done no wrong are pretty oblivious. You also have to remember that the people that died in the 9/11 attacks didn’t commit those atrocities you are claiming. They probably don’t even know they happened and maybe weren’t even alive when they did happen.

And don’t say things like “get rid of your government” because everyone knows it ain’t that easy.

will never forget that there are people out there that want to do me harm, that want to make me a Muslim at the point of a gun.

It was never about that for Al Quida. How badly informed are you? They have one single demand: No american soldiers in the middle east, no american puppet dictators. They want to be just as free as americans are .. but they can’t be .. BECAUSE of america.

They consider themselves freedom fighters. Rebellions.

Nobody should condone their methods.

But don’t act like this is all happening ‘to america’. You can just remove your soldiers and stop supporting puppet dictators, you know. Practise the sort of freedom that you preach?

It is that easy to be safe….

and your anti-muslim hatred just makes you sound like a rascist.. This is not a muslim thing! Yes, they are muslim; the american soldiers are christian..

Are they killing iraqi people because they want to turn them into christians? Or are they just using faith as something to get strength from? Do you think it’s any different from rebel fighters from the Middle East?

It reminded me that there are people out there who with to do me extreme harm because I don’t bow to Mecca 5 times a day.

Actually, they wanted to do your harm because you tax moneys were used for decades to repress people in Saudi-Arabia, Palenstine, Iraq (it was the US that put Saddam there).

How would you feel if Muslim soldiers were stationed in the US. How would you feel if a brutal dictator got its guns for oil from some muslim country.

Would you bite the hand that feeds the devil?

Because that is what they did at 9/11 ..

The world WAS a darker day for many people after that day and still is

About 3% of the world population knows what 9/11 even is. The other 97% is too busy dying.

9/11 reminded me that the world was not as safe as we assumed. It reminded me that there are people out there who with to do me extreme harm because I don’t bow to Mecca 5 times a day. I will never forget the stories of people rushing into those buildings, pulling people out at the risk (and cost) of their own lives. I will never forget hearing the story of the passengers who rushed the cockpit, sacrificing their own lives to prevent another plane from crashing into a building. I will tell my kids how naive we were, how we stupidly believed that the world was safe because the soviets were gone.

Look at history. The history that we conveniently forget. Western Civilization has been fighting extremest Islam since right after Mohamed died. Are we really surprised? Really? I will never forget that there are people out there that want to do me harm, that want to make me a Muslim at the point of a gun. I will never forget that 9/11/01 was the day that America woke up and decided to take a stand against those homicidal maniacs.