After the 9/11 attacks I heard on the news that Muslims had been viciously attacked on the streets?

Question

in stairwells and in front of their homes, this happened in the United States.
These people had done nothing wrong, they were not the terrorists.

How did that make you feel?
Where you sorry that they had to experience this backlash or did you feel that it was justified?

I could not understand how anyone could take this out on innocent victims just because they believed in a religion different than what the majority practised.

How could anyone think that this was justice for that fateful day ?

given by another member, here are the requested links;
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/11/usahate...
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/ge...
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/usahate/...

J.D.
LOL - self loathing Americans (aka liberals) I am neither.
The only one tearing down "this country" as you so eloquently *gasp* put it, is the people like you who go about slamming other people that you know nothing about.

These "savages" have more education and culture than you could fit into your big toe.
Aiding and abetting is what you did by blindly standing behind Pres.Bush who INVADED a country that had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11.
More impotantly is in the "now",
you still blindly support all of the B.S. coming out of the oval office. Duh!

The soldiers I stand by 100%, but ignorant fools who persist that what was done was right, I can not.
Educate yourself!
Stop with the propaganda already, no one believes it anymore.

Mike,
You could have saved yourself the rant, the links are above if you had bothered to look.
I am not against the States you are talking foolishness now.
I think that what happened was an aberration.
No matter WHO the perpetrator is or for WHOM the act of violence is meant for.

Hawaiian Plumeria,
I am educated.
It is perhaps that you need to read a persons question in its entirety before responding.
You did not answer my question. I already know all that you stated, it had nothing to do with my query.

http://hrw.org/press/2002/11/usahate.htm
Does this link work well enough for you mikey?

rhonda,
Did you not see the link above this comment. I re-posted the link.

Answer 1

It made me feel sick. One needless horror committed by terrorists... followed by another, committed by vengeful fools.

For those who were living on another planet after 9/11:

"Public officials tried vigorously to contain a wave of hate crimes in the United States after September 11, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Nevertheless, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 1700 percent during 2001. The report documents anti-Arab and anti-Muslim violence and the local, state and federal response to it."

I have a feeling that's more than "three".

How some people negotiate life at all... is beyond me.

Answer 2

First: Your links do not go to any material. I just get page not found or file not found.

When you get a link from someone else you should read it to see if it actually has some material that you can read


Second: Linda is right.


We have been cleaning out the Mosques and removing material that teaches Islamo-Fascism.

We have been deporting and blacklisting Imams who teach Islamo-Fascism.

Our Muslim friends have been playing a key role at identifying the Extremist material that needs to be removed and identifying the Imams who need to be deported and blacklisted.

It really helps to have Muslims who read and speak Arabic since much of this material is in Arabic and the Imams who teach Islamo-Fascism often teach it in Arabic.

It is very helpful to have Muslims who can translate for us.

You are apparently trying to make Muslims think that we are attacking all Muslims so that they will be afraid of us and will not work with us.

Your plan is not working. We have more Muslims signing up to work with us every day.

Normal Muslims do not want Muslim Extremism and Violent Jihad taught in their Mosques.

We are working together to clean out the Mosques and the Imams who teach this nonsense.


You blew it.

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Answer 3

Educate yourself: After 9/11 Musharraf promised Washington that he would cut off support for such groups, including the Taliban. Early on, he authorized the arrests of several top Qaeda leaders in Pakistani cities, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind fo the 9/11 attacks, and Abu Zubaydah, a top Qaeda organizer. But Musharraf's effort have always been somewhat halfhearted, constrained by the deep sympathies that many of his countrymen have for jihadists. For decades Pakistanis were taught that the guerillas were Muslim heroes, fighting for national honor and security. Such loyalties cannot be turned off like a tap. Several of the militants' onetime spymasters, both inside and outside the government maintain links to their former charges. The security services will go after certain figures---particularly foreign Qaeda fighters--but ask others simply to lie low. Many officials even many ordinary citizens---still think the jihadists should be preserved for future use as a strategic weapon, especially against India, long after American's War on Terror is over.

The safe haven provided by Pakistan has already had dire effects on U.S. and NATO efforts to fight the resurgent Taliban next door in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters now pretty much come and go as they please inside Pakistan.

In Washington, a senior administration official involved in counterterrorism said U.S. intelligence is chronically FEARFUL that ISLAMISTS might get hold of nuclear material, equipment or know-how in Pakistan. He recalled that after 9/11, a group of rogue Pakistani nuclear scientists met with Osama Bin Laden. "Give that history, we continue to look as this issue very closely," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. It's not surprising that Pakistani authorities might give the Taliban special treatment. The country's intelligence officers and military men have maintained close personal relations with senior Taliban leaders ever sine the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's. Western military and diplomatic officials say they doubt that Pakistan is still actively assisting Afghan insurgents---but they also don't think it's trying very hard to STOP THEM, either.

Answer 4

Your links do not work. All I get is page not found or file not found.

If you are going to put up links you should make sure that they work first.

Also, you sound like a rather clueless child. Muslims are not being attacked in the United States.

You do not know what you are talking about.

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Answer 5

There is nothing to justify your behaviour and posts. I've checked your cited references; they do not exist. I question your loyalties.

While the behaviour was wrong, you should understand that there are no innocent people. You should understand loyalties and to whom or what that loyalty is bestowed. Again, this does not make a wrong behaviour right. It does however make a person eager to know who really is a friend and who is not. If you don't know who your enemies are, then you are in unnecessary risk.

Answer 6

most of the people on the plane were from Saudi Arabia, a country with a loyal affiliation with USA. As for the people getting bashed in America, if you were a white person living in the middle east and a bunch of white guys flew a plane into a landmark do you think the local people would care if you werent guilty? Im not defending the bashings, im just putting the mentality into context, it shouldnt have happened but that is human nature

Answer 7

Only three reported cases involved people who were target as being Muslim and found not to be Muslims at all.

All three belong to Sikhism, they keep long beards and wear turbans which some Morons took from the look of Osama Bin Laden.

These three incidents happened in: CA, MA, and NY.

Answer 8

The only cases I've been able to verify is one case at Indiana University. Muslim students were celebrating the attack and some IU guys beat the hell out of them.... I wasn't there, to bad for me....good for them.

If you self loathing Americans (aka liberals) would spend as much time worrying about Islamo-fascism as you do tearing down this country, we could beat these savages much easier, its called aiding and abetting.

Answer 9

Not so much, actually.

There aren't a lot of muslims in America, and they fall into three groups. Those who don't look particularly muslim (no beards, turbins, hajib, etc), those who live in muslim-majority enclaves, and Black Muslim Brotherhood.

The first you don't recognize, the second you never meet, and the third you do /not/ **** with.

The few - and relatively minor - 'hate' crimes in the wake of 9/11 were on the order of vandalizing mosques. The few folks who did catch some actual violence were, sadly, sihk men, who, unlike Muslims /are/ required by thier religion to wear turbins. Just shows you how ignorance and intollerance go hand in glove.

Answer 10

We, the U.S. consumer, with a manifold propensity for consuming the homogenized, easily accepted the bogus claims of Secretary Powell speaking before the United Nations. We accepted our governments declarations of huge stockpiles of Iraqi WMDs even though, now that we control Iraq, we cannot find them. We accepted making Iraq children quadriplegics for the greater good as defined by the same people that lie to us daily. We are sheep. We are Good Americans.

Now, in the 21st century: We the sheeple, in order to form a more perfect corporate Union, establish global capitalism, insure international profit, provide for the complete exploitation of indigenous natural resources, promote the Welfare of the rich, and secure the Blessings of the Free Market to the wealthy and their inherited offspring, do ordain and establish the hegemonist constitution and policy of United States of America.