We have, as a culture, been doing the wrong thing in response to this for the last 9 years and more, and I suspect we're going to *keep* doing this and making it worse.
We should have *immediately* declared this the action of a fanatical *fringe* movement, emphasised the *fringe* aspect, and declared it a *criminal* act.
When we make it about all Islam, and into a war, we just glorify their side, and make it easier for them to recruit. Stupid.
No one is calling for a "hail the Islamic heroes of the fall of the WTC" monument next door to the site.
Sigh - all we've managed to do in the last decade is do away with secular Islam/secularism in the Middle East. It makes me cry for all the women who've been shoved back behind the veil involuntarily.
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We have, as a culture, been doing the wrong thing in response to this for the last 9 years and more, and I suspect we're going to *keep* doing this and making it worse.
We should have *immediately* declared this the action of a fanatical *fringe* movement, emphasised the *fringe* aspect, and declared it a *criminal* act.
When we make it about all Islam, and into a war, we just glorify their side, and make it easier for them to recruit. Stupid.
No one is calling for a "hail the Islamic heroes of the fall of the WTC" monument next door to the site.
Sigh - all we've managed to do in the last decade is do away with secular Islam/secularism in the Middle East. It makes me cry for all the women who've been shoved back behind the veil involuntarily.