Reflections on 9/11

While most of the nation was commemorating the fallen of 9/11 with sadness and resolve to understand the ongoing threat of Islamic extremism, arguably the nation’s foremost institution of higher learning approached the tenth anniversary from a very different perspective.
At Harvard, the theme was — you guessed it — “Islamophobia.”
Read full article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-harvard-remembered-911/

Had the Soviet Union destroyed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during the Cold War, it would have precipitated an all-out nuclear exchange. Today we'd have a sensitivity seminar to combat Russophobia.
Read full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/ten_year_later_911_reveals_depth_of_american_decline.html

Roger Cohen's thoughts about 9/11 include the following.
"It is the manipulation of memory — not fit remembrance — that has turned an attack by a band of fanatical Muslims into grounds for the grotesque attempt to ban Shariah law in several U.S. states, and to scurrilous imaginings about President Obama and Islam."
He also speaks about "a coda to this decade: Hope. Arabs have risen up by the hundreds of millions to claim a dignity and freedom long denied them."
Is Cohen referring to the dignity to act like animals? The following is how CNN reported the terrifying ordeal of television producer, Dina Amer, who was covering the Egyptian protests at the Israeli Embassy this weekend.
"They were animals," she said.
Other Egyptian journalists told CNN they were also attacked Saturday while trying to report near the Israeli embassy.

In an imaginary note composed to his daughter on 9/11, Cohen sees fit to impart the following words of wisdom as a legacy to his daughter, "I don’t know if God exists."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/opinion/09iht-edcohen09.html

Last week I posted a video of someone who survived the 9/11 attacks. His thoughts are that G-d was looking out for him that day. But Mr. Cohen uses that day not to fault man but to doubt G-d's existence, even though he has been blessed by a daughter, a great writing ability and a job in these precarious times.