Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
It is difficult to reply to this concisely as in needed on an internet forum, but I will try. Please excuse my lack of explanatory detail.
After 9/11, if took much to long for me to discern the difference between the following statements:
The perpetrators of 9/11 did this because they were Muslim.
And...
The perpetrators of 9/11 happened to be Muslim.
A lot of people, are still operating on the first. I have chosen to accept the second.
The 9/11 perpetrators did it primarily because of their view of their religion, warped as it may have been, to consider themselves martyrs. I do agree about no profiling at screening checkpoints.
After 9/11, the FBI released a letter reportedly handwritten by the hijackers and found in three separate copies on 9/11—at Dulles, at the Pennsylvania crash site, and in Mohamed Atta's suitcase. It included a checklist of final reminders for the 9/11 hijackers. An excerpt reads: "When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers." Also, in the cockpit voice recorders found at the crash site of Flight 93, the hijackers are heard to be reciting the Takbir as the plane plummeted toward the ground