Anywho, back on topic of 9/11.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and say I remember a whole lot about it, because I was four at the time and don't remember jack shit about being under age five (I honestly have two memories of a time before I was five, and one of them isn't a very fond one.) So, instead I have to say something about a certain group that really took a backhand as a result of the people who orchestrated the attack (or if you're a conspiracy person, allegedly orchestrated the attacks.)

Muslims.

Not a personal story, but a teacher I had (we were doing a unit on 9/11 at the time) that where she had grown up, there was a decent amount of Muslims (they had their mosque and what not in the area) and there were no hostilities or tensions between them and any other group.

Then, 9/11 happened. And as she put it, it happened almost overnight. Those very same Muslims were tormented, beaten up, insulted, had rocks thrown at them, you name it. For just being a Muslim. When I hear those stories, I think back to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany or the behavior that can be expected from the KKK. The very same thing so many are opposed to.

Not saying the two on par with each other, but what happened to Muslims and Arabics after 9/11 just because of the attackers' religions/ethnicity was little more than a less systematic, not government backed version of the scapegoat system that caused the Holocaust.

I see 9/11 as a tragedy, the senseless death of over 3000. I see the bravery of the firefighters and first responders putting their lives on the lines for strangers, how many of them knew that once they went up into the towers, there was a good chance that they weren't coming back down.

I also see how we formed together as a nation...

...to blame the Muslims for the actions committed by extremists.

And yet, Christians get offended when they get compared to the WBC.

Sadly, the aftermath of 9/11 in a social sense further shows how apparent the double standards are in the media.

Just my two cents.