Friday, September 10, 2010

9/11 9 years later

Nine years ago on September 11 I was in the second grade.  That morning I was getting ready for school while my dad was watching the morning news.  While I was eating breakfast I was watching the TV and saw the first plane hit the tower.  Immediatley after my dad called my mom into the room to show her what just happened.  While they were both discussing the suprising footage that was just showed on the TV, both of them caught off guard couldn't believe their eyes.  After the second plane hit the tower my dad couldn't believe his eyes.  At this point my brother and I were both glaring at the TV clueless as to what was going on.  My mom then told us both to say a prayer.  When the crisis occurred many people turned to religion, and people still are.

After reading the article about the church in Florida wanting to burn the Muslim holy book on the 9th anniversary of 9/11, it showed me a different way of how people still are turning to religion in rememberance of the crisis.  I believe that the church is using their hatred for terrorists on all Muslims throughout the world.  However, I don't think that this is the right thing.  People shouldn't be stereotyping all Muslims and their religion with terrorists.  By stereotyping the religion as a whole with terrorists it offends the people who do follow the Muslim holy book.  Just because someone follows the Muslim holy book doesn't mean that they were on the terrorist's of 9/11 side.  Overall I don't agree with what the church wants to do. 

2 comments:

  1. Very insightful Rosie! I enjoyed reading your personal response on what you were doing and how you felt at the morning of 9/11. I agree with you when you right about steryotyping and how people should never steryotype a group of people because not all people of a group are guilty!

    Ciao!

    -The Z Man

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  2. Rosie,
    I completely agree with you when you wrote about how these people are taking all of their hatred against these awful terrorsts, and putting it towards an entire religion. It's awful because no entire culture should be judged based off the actions of very few individuals. Adolf Hitler was a christian... does that mean all christians are horrible people? Absolutely not. This is no different.

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