9/11

This morning in my American Government class we watched a movie about 9/11. It was an interview with a columnist from the New York Times. Umm...his name was Thomas something. Anyways, he spent a long time travelling to different Islam countries asking them about 9/11. It was a new perspective on 9/11 that most Americans don't see. Many of the people in the countries he visited were happy about what happened to us on 9/11. He talked to some students and asked them what they thought the purpose of 9/11 was. The overall response seemed to be that they didn't like how the Americans looked down on them and killed innocent people in their country like it was nothing; but when it came to killing innocent people in our country it was unfathomable. It was interesting when he spoke to one girl in particular. She said that it's funny how now anytime the word 'muslim' is mentioned in the U.S. now, it is associated with terrorists and killers, and Americans think every muslim is a terrorist. His repsonse to her comment was that it was a fact. He said it wasn't 19 Norweigians that attacked us; if it was, we would be wary of Norweigians. I thought that was interesting. The documentary didn't really have a plot or anything, it was just another view of 9/11 from the point of the other side. It was sad some of the things that the people thought about America...things that they had seen on the internet or read in their biased newspapers. Some people actually thought that Americans had bombed NYC on 9/11! It was just crazy to see this side of the issue. Most of us just think about our side.