A decade of reflections from the Middle East 'victims' of 9/11

A mixed pot of responses from the Middle East, including let's not forget the decade's worth of 'other' deaths to have come out of this 'day'- 919,967 have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11, reports one Jordanian blogger; Lessons Learnt, Time to let go; and myths born from September 11.

Muslims mark the day their lives changed- probably for the worse- and pay their respects to the direct victims of the towers; no doubt sparing thoughts for the decade's worth of collateral damage and Muslim victims thereafter.

Intifada Voice of Palestine [2]

9/11 Ten Years Later: What have we learned?

"Unfortunately ten years later, 9/11 has turned to symbolize a monument of irrational hate propagated by a Neo Conservative political agendum intended to perpetuate collective anti Muslim sentiment in the US, rather than taking a coherent inward look to learn from those tragic events and the unjust debauchery wars that followed."

The AWL [3]

An Incomplete Digest Of Programs That Will Be On TV This Weekend, In Alphabetical Order

Today will be 9/11 24/7 it would seem as expected! "• "20/20: Remembrance and Renewal: 10 Years after the 9/11 Attacks" (ABC) • "102 Minutes That Changed America" (History Channel) • "9/11: 10 Years Later" (CBS)"

The Huffington Post [4]

Beyond the Myth of 9/11: The Path of Self-Examination

"September 11 was not only a trauma but, as with any crisis of identity, an opportunity for greater maturity. This would require serious reappraisal of the national project, beginning with the lure of self-mythology itself. Such castle-building enables those threatened with unmanageable external danger to split the world into us and them, superheroes and villains, good and bad forces, groups, and individuals. It replaces real complexities with the simple fantasy of moral triumph."

Confessions of a vegetarian shark [5]

Eleven

"Remember the Birth pangs of the New Middle East? The genius theory prophesied by Ms. Rice, who; on this eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, had ignored, underplayed and dismissed intelligence reports warning of an imminent threat to the US mainland, 2 months prior to the attacks, voiding her political wisdom obsolete since the first few months of the Bush Administration."

A Tale of Three Beans [6]

When is it Time to Just Let Go? Ten Years Later

Well it took time for the Holocaust to run its course, but there are healthy ways to keep the catastrophic human tragedies alive but used positively: "Well, clearly most blog posts around the world today will be about the World Trade Center events back ten years ago. It’s natural and understandable.... Already here in Jordan the non-stop 9/11 specials have started. El 3atal and I watched a couple of them. One was about the aftermath… the what came next. "

Moey [7]

So 911 big deal

"I’m probably going to be seeing a million of posts on Facebook (and every other possible social network) saying “We’ll never forget” and “Remember 9/11”, just like every other year. And I get it, I get that it was a tragedy. That thousands of people died. "

Sabah Report [8]

9/11 Mythology: The Big Lie of Our Time

"Winston Churchill rightly explained that "(a) lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Today, of course, it circulates everywhere instantly."

A Separate State of Mind [9]

9/11 Remembered. And Put in Perspective.

"I still remember this September day, ten years ago, when my whole family sat dumbfounded in front of our television set, not believing what we were seeing. How could the United States, the world’s leading country (despite some in-denial people thinking otherwise), have this happen to it? Shouldn’t they have been more prepared? After all, two airplanes hitting their country’s biggest towers and an attack on the Pentagon isn’t exactly a small feat – for any terrorist group."