9/11 Did Not Discriminate … So Why Must We?

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http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2010/09/911-did-not-discriminate-so-why-must-we/

9/11 Did Not Discriminate … So Why Must We?


Abdoul-Karim Traoré was one of about 60 Muslims believed to have died on 9/11. He was photographed with his sons Souleymane and Siaka.)



After a week of near-total lunacy, I was grateful to see this story in The Times. For once, because it’s the anniversary of 9/11 today and because portraits and expressions like these are so reminiscent, I’ll let the photos speak for themselves … except to point out what you would think would be obvious — that there were Muslims, too, for whom 9/11 was shattering.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10muslim.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

Visiting Ground Zero, Asking Allah for Comfort

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré, a 9/11 widow, with her sons, Siaka, left, 9, and Souleymane, 11.

By SAM DOLNICK
Published: September 9, 2010


Nearly every Sept. 11 since Sept. 11, Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré has made sure that her three children were dressed in their best clothes, and taken them from their tidy brick home in the Bronx to the pit where the World Trade Center stood, and where her husband, their father, worked and died.

Abdoul-Karim Traoré was one of about 60 Muslims believed to have died on 9/11. He was photographed with his sons Souleymane and Siaka.

After the attacks, all that was found of Abdoul-Karim Traoré, a cook at the Windows on the World restaurant, were his leather wallet, his identification cards and a few coins.

“I like to go down there and pray and see the place and remember,” said Mrs. Traoré, a native of Ivory Coast who came to the United States in 1997. “When I go there, I feel closer to him. And him to me. I pray for him, too.”

When she prays, she calls God Allah. Mrs. Traoré, 40, says praying in the pit feels entirely natural, even if some of those standing with her — widows and widowers, parents and children — blame her religion for the destruction of that day.

“That’s not fair,” she said. “It’s not because of Allah that these buildings fell.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10muslim.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

[stray cat]

1. The terrorists murdered Muslims on 9-11 and even destroyed Muslim prayer rooms in the towers

[babylonsister]

2. Those facts alone should make these current

fearmongers ashamed, but they don't.