The New York Post Inspires Boycott With 9/11 Photo and Ilhan Omar Quote
The tabloid featured the burning World Trade Center towers and a partial quote from Representative Omar on a cover that protesters fear could incite violence against Muslims. The New York Post came under a barrage of criticism last week for a front page that featured a Sept. 11 photograph of the World Trade Center in […]
Readers React: Islam remains misunderstood 17 years after 9/11
Since the 2016 election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there has been an increase in hate groups in the U.S. due to the actions of the current president. White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been emboldened and there has been an uptick in divisiveness, bigotry and Islamophobia. Both Jews and Muslims face increased prejudice […]
Pentagon Says It Killed 801 Civilians in ISIS War
It’s been 16 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, but America’s fight against terrorism doesn’t appear to be dissipating whatsoever––and innocent civilians are paying the ultimate price as a result. In a report released Thursday, the Pentagon claimed U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have “unintentionally” killed 801 civilians since the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) […]
Exclusive: Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America’s fault
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks wrote former President Barack Obama in a long suppressed letter that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself for years of foreign policy that killed innocent people across the world. “It was not we who started the war against you in 9/11. It was you…
When US Congress chases votes and not the law
The United States Congress’ historic vote to defy the president’s veto, thereby passing into law the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), may spark new hope for victims of state violence in general. By an overwhelming margin in both houses of the legislature, American senators and congressional representatives have defied Barack Obama, while playing […]
US: President Barack Obama vetoes 9/11 bill
US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. In a statement accompanying his veto message, Obama said on Friday he had “deep sympathy” for the 9/11 victims’ families and their desire to see […]
Homeland Security Chief Is Hijacking the Tragedy of 9/11 to Boost His Mass Surveillance Agenda
From the outset, federal Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs have been rocked by accusations of human rights violations, including charges that they unfairly target Muslim communities with suspicionless surveillance and thought policing. But on the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson took to the national media […]
We were just kids on 9/11. And no one really explained it to us.
I think it happened as I was walking from science class to civics. My civics teacher — I think her name was Ms. Jones — had the TVs on and barely addressed her class of seventh graders. Was she on the phone? With the principal? I don’t know. And this is the thing — Americans […]
September 11th legacy : What tragedy teaches us about life
HONOLULU, September 11, 2016 – On this fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, consider this: On that morning, 2,974 people woke up, got out of bed, went about their business and did what they had always done so many times before, not realizing that was their last day.
How the fight against terrorism has transformed America since 9/11
Lawrence Wright is worried about what Americans have lost since 9/11. Wright, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of a seminal work on the rise of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower,” is concerned that an entire generation has grown up in a US that’s very unlike the country he remembers.