September 11th Rememberance

It has been 5 years since the most gruesome primitive attack of religious mass killing on American soil has happened. As thousands of people went to work in the world trade center towers that morning like any other, they could not possibly imagine the bloody fate that would await them that day. A fate that no one on earth should possibly ever have to endure. The effect it had on our country, the affected families, and all of us is scarring.


Let us please not forget what was at essence of these modern-aged attacks of middle-aged ignorance and barbarity. With utter importance that is nearly critical to our ability to continue to survive into the future as a species, let us not forget that these hideous attacks were in the name of someone's ideas of god. Let us be disgusted that our world continues to be a place in which people kill each other over beliefs which all claim to be exclusively correct, and similarly all over not a shred of proof or relevance to today's lives. Let us be disgusted at the response that our government-elect gave to the global stage –our own president announcing a holy war in response, and citing what god wants many times in public speeches. What worse of a possible response could there be than to say you will stand up for the god which people of other beliefs hate you for believing in?

As the hijacker's crashed the planes that day, the recordings play back their screams of

"Allaahu Akbar! Laa ilaaha illa-Lah!" – "God allah is great, there is none worthy of worship except allah"



While I reject all thoughts and beliefs in god and detest all of the actions such beliefs lead people to do, this does not make me unpatriotic. Let the videos of the attacks, videos of the civilian death toll in our continuing war on terror, the American captive beheading videos, let them all be uncensored and broadcasted everywhere as a reminder of what we are really at war with – the clash of ideals of god.



For humans to continue to live together and progress toward anything without complete cataclysmic destruction of one another most pressingly hinges on the ability of us to recognize the horrible things blind baseless faith makes people do. More specifically –

Our ability to objectively and realistically understand that islam is an incredibly powerful force of blind faith that has oppression and malevolent violence tied to its roots since the beginning, and that Christianity and its exclusiveness on equally zero evidence is no better.

This is for everyone that lost their lives on that day because of someone's "god".

-GD