9/11 Cultural Perspective

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At 8:46, an Airline Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. On September 11th, 2001, two planes crashed in the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane crashed on the western side of the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and one in a field in Somers County, Pennsylvania. All the planes were hijacked by a group called Al-Qaeda. Looking at the 9/11 attacks we need to look through a cultural lens on both religion and ethical beliefs of both the Americans and Muslims. The events of 9/11 should be analyzed from a cultural perspective, focusing on how religion was a key reason for the attack. A Muslim is a believer who accepts surrender to the will of Allah (God). An author named Aisha Sultan, a Muslim woman, writes about the trials that happened to her during …show more content…
Miss Sultanas, a Muslim in America, was persecuted because of her religion even to this day some Americans still hold grudges towards American Muslims, "Back then, a Republican president, George W. Bush, visited the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C. days after the attack to tell the American people that the attacks violated the tenets of Islam—"Islam is peace," he said—and to defend Muslims as equal citizens worthy of respect and protection" (Sultan). President Bush stands up for the Muslims of America and wants the American people to we need to respect others for all the good things in our name. Americans and Muslims were both affected by the attacks, even though they are different cultures, American Muslims were hated by Americans. "I needed my neighbors in the Midwest to know that while Muslim Americans shared their grief and anger, we also feared whether our country would turn on us" (Sultan) Ever after the attack, years after Muslims are still oppressed because, most Americans believe that different races are all the same, even when they're not. "After the attacks, amid the horror and