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COMMENTS:
We Are So Sorry for 9-11
This September 11 marks the third unforgettable anniversary of the worst mass murder in American history.
After September 11, many in the Muslim world chose denial and hallucination rather than face up to the sad fact that Muslims perpetrated the 9-11 terrorist acts and that we have an enormous problem with extremism and support for terrorism. Many Muslims, including religious leaders, and intellectuals blamed 9-11 on a Jewish conspiracy and went as far as fabricating a tale that 4000 Jews did not show up for work in the World Trade Center on 9-11. Yet others blamed 9-11 on an American right wing conspiracy or the U.S. Government which allegedly wanted an excuse to invade Iraq and steal Iraqi oil.
As to apologizing, we will no longer wait for our religious leaders and "intellectuals" to do the right thing. Instead, we will start by apologizing for 9-11 . . .
After numerous admissions of guilt by Bin Laden and numerous corroborating admissions by captured top level Al-Qaida operatives, we wonder, does the Muslim leadership have the dignity and courage to apologize for 9-11?
If not 9-11, will we apologize for the murder of school children in Russia?
If not Russia, will we apologize for the train bombings in Madrid, Spain?
If not Spain, will we apologize for suicide bombings in buses, restaurants and other public places?
If not suicide bombings, will we apologize for the barbaric beheadings of human beings?
If not beheadings, will we apologize for the rape and murder of thousands of innocent people in Darfour?
If not Darfour, will we apologize for the blowing up of two Russian planes by Muslim women?
What will we apologize for?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that those who commit mass murder in the name of Islam are not just a few fringe elements?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that we are facing a crisis that is more deadly than the Aids epidemic?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that there is a large evil movement that is turning what was a peaceful religion into a cult?
Will Muslims wake up before it is too late? Or will we continue blaming the Jews and an imaginary Jewish conspiracy? The blaming of all Muslim problems on Jews is a cancer that is destroying Muslim society from within and it must stop.
Muslims must look inward and put a stop to many of our religious leaders who spend most of their sermons teaching hatred, intolerance and violent jihad. We should not be afraid to admit that as Muslims we have a problem with violent extremism. We should not be afraid to admit that so many of our religious leaders belong behind bars and not behind a pulpit.
Only moderate Muslims can challenge and defeat extremist Muslims. We can no longer afford to be silent. If we remain silent to the extremism within our community then we should not expect anyone to listen to us when we complain of stereotyping and discrimination by non-Muslims; we should not be surprised when the world treats all of us as terrorists; we should not be surprised when we are profiled at airports.
Simply put, not only do Muslims need to join the war against terror, we need to take the lead in this war.
As to apologizing, we will no longer wait for our religious leaders and intellectuals to do the right thing. Instead, we will start by apologizing for 9-11.
We are so sorry that 3000 people were murdered in our name. We will never forget the sight of people jumping from two of the highest buildings in the world hoping against hope that if they moved their arms fast enough that they may fly and survive a certain death from burning.
We are sorry for blaming 9-11 on a Jewish or right wing conspiracy.
We are so sorry for the murder of more than three hundred school children and adults in Russia.
We are so sorry for the murder of train passengers in Spain.
We are so sorry for all the victims of suicide bombings. We are so sorry for the beheadings, abductions, rapes, violent Jihad and all the atrocities committed by Muslims around the world.
We are so sorry for a religious education that raised killers rather than train people to do good in the world. We are sorry that we did not take the time to teach our children tolerance and respect for other people.
We are so sorry for not rising up against the dictators who have ruled the Muslim world for decades.
We are so sorry for allowing corruption to spread so fast and so deep in the Muslim world that many of our youth lost hope.
We are so sorry for allowing our religious leaders to relegate women to the status of forth class citizens at best and sub-humans at worse.
We are so sorry.
An apology is a start.
Accept? No one is going to be able to accept what happened that day or the needless death of so many people and the broken families who cried for 3 years. That is unacceptable. But think this is progress and I think we should open and allow the apology to make up for the dead silence we've been living in for these few years now.
I'm glad someone did it..but why did we need to wait 3 whole years foe one?
Its a start but how can you accept a apology from a group who had nothing to do with it.
When they turn on the radical muslims that carried out these attacks, and have so far been living in their midst without harassment, then maybe we'll start to forgive the muslim world.
It's a nice gesture, but they didn't have anything to do with it, so I don't see why they should apologize.
Did I slip into a different dimension these past few years and Individual responsibility is no longer in vogue?!? Now the sins of one become the sins of whatever the small, sinning minority's group is?
Or has the slogan *Everything's changed after 9/11* mean that we've also thrown reason out the window?
I really don't know how to feel about this. Sure the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism apologizes, but it cannot change what has been done. I guess the only good that can come out of this is if they encourage others to change their ways and show that Muslim is a peaceful religion, not an evil murdering cult.
I fully agree with Cathexis.
Don't apologize if you're not responsible. Just send condolences.
An apology is nice, they do mean well. Though I don't think they should. They had nothing to do with it. They should condemn the terrorist of 9/11 instead.
This sounds a bit sudden to me. They're just now thinking this way? An apology isn't enough. I also want candy.
Great ballot,wake up USA,we are in WW 3
I accept the apology and the idea that we should restructure the government of Afghanistan. I do not, however, agree that we should be in Iraq, as they had nothing to do with 9/11.
They werent the ones who carried out the attacks, and had nothing to apologize for.
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