Every time we charge the Muslim population with having carried out 9/11 we are perpetrating an injustice. We are adding to the weight of matters for which we'll have to apologize later.
It's time to break this cycle of stigmatizing, ostracizing, and persecuting people for something they did not do.
The
families of 9/11 victims were themselves victims and want justice.
Justice does not lie in persecuting others who were also innocent and I
think the families can understand and appreciate that.
I myself am Jewish. I'm neither a Zionist nor a person who somehow hates Muslims. I'd like to think that a great number of my compatriots are like me.
I have no axe to grind with my brothers and sisters of the Muslim faith. We worship the same God, they in their fashion, I in mine. We both work and raise families. We serve the nation in the ways that we do.
I acknowledge that I bought the myth of Muslim responsibility for 9/11 for some years and was as afraid of Muslims in general as many people are today.
But I also acknowledge that I was wrong, that I accepted the cover story propagated by the people responsible for 9/11. For someone did it. Someone caused those airplanes to crash, the passengers to die, and the buildings to come down. But the real people responsible for 9/11 remain free today and continue to work their woe. They're the ones who have set us against Muslims, to cover their tracks.
They are the real creators of the "war on terror." They are the real terrorists. Whenever a terror alert goes off, just know that you are being manipulated. All the airport security? Unneeded. The shoe bombers and Christmas Bombers who try to blow up planes are mind-controlled "Manchurian candidates," employed by the CIA. (If mind-control is not something you're familiar with, google "MK Ultra.")
Muslims of America, neither are you my enemies nor am I yours. I apologize for the false charges I brought against you. I also apologize for the pain you've suffered, for the lives put on hold, for the restriction in your ability to live your lives freely like the rest of us.
I apologize for the ridicule you've had to endure, as the current "Ground-Zero Mosque" controversy illustrates. I also acknowledge that, if there has been any aggressive response on your part since then, I and others who falsely accused you bear a measure of responsibility for having incited that.
Authoritarian regimes work by scapegoating, by hiding their machinations, and by restricting the rights and freedoms of their citizens. Falsely accusing you was the means by which an authoritarian regime in America achieved its purposes of declaring an illegal war on Afghanistan and Iraq and restricting the constitutional rights of its citizens.
They are responsible for the deaths of millions, not just 3,000 on 9/11. The first step in stopping them in their carnage is to hold them accountable for the mass murder they created that day when they blew up buildings and appear to have murdered the passengers in four planes.
The real culprits behind 9/11 must be brought before a grand jury and tried for their crimes. Our responsibility to Muslims falsely accused must be acknowledged.
I'm not suggesting that we approach Muslims as an act of interfaith forgiveness. There is nothing to forgive. We are the ones who must, and will one day, ask for forgiveness.
It's time instead to acknowledge our error, And, if readers don't agree with me that an error has been committed, at least desist from compounding it until evidence you find compelling has been presented to you. At least have a doubt in your mind about whether you're doing the right thing.
From several angles apart from 9/11 - from the teachings of Jesus that many anti-Muslims profess, from the standpoint of the human rights enshrined in Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and from the standpoint of logic that the Muslim who stands before you in all likelihood had nothing to do with 9/11 - deciding not to participate in the Islamophobia that has resulted from this false-flag operation is the right thing to do.
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