Perpetrators the Victims and the Forces Behind the September 11th Attacks
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The Perpetrators, the Victims and the Forces Behind the September 11th Attacks
September 11th, 2001 two commercial passenger airplanes where flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Moments later another plane was crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC, while a third plane fell out of the sky into a Pennsylvanian field. September 11th, 2001 "a day that will forever live in infamy."
Quickly after the 9-11 carnage, United States intelligence agencies began to discover the names and faces of the men who perpetrated these acts. All the suspected hijackers were Islamic Arabs. This coming as no surprise to those whom the words "Arab" and "Muslim" associate with themselves with "terrorist" and "anti-American." As wounded American hearts and disturbed Muslims/Arabs tried to sift through the realities and misconceptions of the 9-11 attacks, the ideology and psychology of both groups must be examined.
Ideology of the 9-11 Perpetrators and Victims
Mohammed Atta and his cohorts decided they would practice Islam by killing over 3,000 Americans at work Tuesday morning --- this was fatal fundamentalism. A notion such as this is a distortion of Islamic beliefs. "The concept that mass murder and terrorism is a form of religious duty or worship in Islam is a lie,"(1) exclaimed many in the Muslim/Arab world...