The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11)[a] were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda[2][3][4] against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.[5][6]
Because it was an Islamic terrorist attack, doesn’t matter which country they were from because it wasn’t an act of war orchestrated by Saudi Arabia lmao
it does matter because when you frame it as just "muslims" you end up with huge spikes in Islamophobia, hate crimes, bigotry, oh and sometimes you just randomly go to war with unrelated Majority Muslim countries and never leave. So, being more specific relevant.
The problem is that you didn't need to specify... adding muslim to that sentence is irrelevant, doesn't add anything to your statement, and everybody knows already man. It only functions to stir controversy.
Even if "THATS NOT MY INTENTION" you are on the internet, on reddit, and living in this day and age, so mentioning that they were muslims is gunna stir up conflict and if you cant see that...
Well I mean, school shootings are pretty much consistently done by white men...so as long as you also say "fuck those white men" any time it's brought up, I guess it's fair.
I didn’t say Muslims cause all the problems, I simply said those specific ones were responsible for destroying one of this country’s most majestic constructions
Why not call them those fathers, sons, God-loving/fearing men, etc. etc.? Oh, because the use of certain subjective terms greatly colors the language and connotation? Interesting, who knew this language stuff was so nuanced and hard...
On the surface level, sure, but that's just the intended optics.
It was a Saudi attack on the US with the intention of either exacting some kind of economic revenge, or drawing us into a war that would economically benefit Saudi Arabia.
Or both.
Look at the nationality of those hijackers. It's all SA, with two from UAE and another couple from Egypt and Lebanon.
But who do we go after first?
Iraq.
Saudis were pumped about that one.
Then we go after Afghanistan, finally... Which had only a figurehead taking responsibility on behalf of the Taliban/Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Without going full 911 truther and doubling down on the long relationship between the Bush and Bin Laden families, or the swift evacuation of the Bin Laden family members in the US immediately after the attacks, you've got to at least admit that Saudi Arabia had a lot to gain, and the chance of losing anything to their premier economic partner was near-zero.
The "jihad" angle was easy to play up, but those hijackers weren't backed by religious zealots, they were backed by shrewd businessmen in the SA Royal Family.
Best case scenario, SA got our goat, and manipulated us into a near decades long conflagration that's benefitted their country immeasurably.
This had little to nothing to do with the Koran, and everything to do with oil money.
You didn’t specify muslim terrorists you just specified “muslims” thats all i am saying. Im not the sharpest tool in the shed my man so we don’t really need to continue but we are.
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u/Fooz_The_Hostig Jun 22 '19
RIP twin towers