Explaining 9/11 to a Muslim Child - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.co. This day will always bring more questions than answers. How to explain to your child what happened on a crystalline morning eight years ago? And if your child is Muslim, those questions have added layers, and more complicated answers. In a guest blog today, Moina Noor (a freelance journalist who blogs about public education at NorwalkNet.com) describes trying to make sense of it for her young son, while still trying to understand it all herself. Explaining 9/11 to a Muslim Child By Moina Noor Recently on the morning drive to school my 8-year-old son asked me a question I’ve been dreading since he was a baby, “Mom, what happened on 9/11?” Mass murder is impossible to explain to yourself, let alone a child. Bilal was just 8 months old when September 11 happened. After Bilal was born I viewed everything — especially current events — through the lens of parenthood.
When I was growing up in suburban Connecticut few people knew much about Muslims, let alone cared. Anniversary. Rebirth of Cool? Online Forums Mark 9/11. Al-Fursan Releases 9/11 Mag « JARRET BRACHMAN DOT NET. The second issue of Inspire, the magazine issued by the media outlet of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) known as “Al-Malahim Media Foundation” is living up to its name, at least on paper, in trying to INSPIRE English-language al-Qaeda supporters to cross that proverbial threshold from thought to action. Here’s what I think are the most important points to take away from the magazine off my first skim through.
I will be blogging more in-depth analysis in days to come. I’ll also be monitoring the response from the jihobbyist fan base aggressively. 1. 2. Here are some of the images out of the magazine. This image is from the magazine’s recommendation that people should take their pick-up trucks and weld on metal blades to the front bumpers so that inspired individuals can drive them into crowds of pedestrians. The whole point of this journal is to make conducting terrorism a n easier pill to swallow for potential would-be terrorists in the West. More sooner… The wrong kind of respect. I wonder if the CIA’s former bin Laden-hunter Michael Scheuer is angrier: a) that an excerpt from his latest book is also the latest in English-language propaganda for al Qaeda in the special 9/11 issue of Jihad Recollections [h/t Jarret Brachman]; b) or, that the same issue says his archenemy, the late John O’Neill (former FBI Counterterrorism Chief), was Osama bin Laden’s ‘greatest rival’ and the guy who ‘had the potential of uncovering al-Qa’idah’s international army’ (table of contents and page 20).
I am going with ‘b’ (he is probably is happy about ‘a’), considering the well-known rivalry between Scheuer and O’Neill. Lawrence Wright explains in his Pulitzer Prize winning book on al-Qaeda and 9/11: They were the two men most responsible for putting a stop to bin Laden and a-Qaeda, and yet they disliked each other intensely – an emotion that reflected the ingrained antagonism of the organizations they represented. Mr. Stay classy, Mr. What the Hell Happened to Michael Scheuer? : Dispatches from the.