Was bin laden and 9/11 successful in making you more aware of islam?

it was successful in making dumb-asses think Sikhs are Islamic terrorists.

 

9/11 was successful in making Americans more paranoid and willing to sacrifice principles such as privacy and disdain for torture.

 

Not as much as Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

 

Islam?

 

more aware of the .0001 percent that are extremists and labeling that as every Muslim

 

All for the questionable benefit of not having people fly planes into buildings.

 

Osama won. We spent Trillions of dollars on two stupid wars. We have a bunch of new useless agencies that take up billions of dollars. Airline travel suck more. I guess we haven't had another 9/11 so I guess we have that going for us. Terrorism hasn't really gone down.

 

Sure, I've become more aware of Islam, but that means that I've become more aware of the abuses of Islam. More aware that the vast majority of violent world conflicts over the last 20 years has involved aggression by Islamic factions.....often aggression by radical Islamic factions against the more peaceful Islamic factions, but also aggression by radical Islamic factions against any neighboring country. More aware of the abuses against women and homosexuals in extreme interpretations of Islam. More aware of the outright barbarism inherent with the more extreme interpretations of Islam.

So yeah, I think the world is considerably more aware of Islam today than it was pre-9-11, but a lot of it was not ready for that kind of sunlight.

 

Hot take: All the actions taken by the United States to "make America safer" as a result of 9/11 increased the threat of terrorism in Europe and North America from Islamic extremists.

Wait... that really isn't a hot take. That is an empirical truth.

The "War on Terror" is one of the most aggregiously failed American polices in our history of existence .

 

I left the oven on overnight.

 

17 years + after and I'm still having difficulty accepting Rumsfeld and Dick's explanations of how it happened. I still don’t understand how Bin Laden can be able to orchestrate such massive attacks ,when lengthy phone calls from cruising planes at 20-30k ' altitudes, building 7 etc. opens more questions than answers


why would Bin Laden take responsibility after his initial denying?

 

you give them rambo to fight off the evil russians and that's how they thank you. basterds.

 

Not really Islam, no. I was already aware and educated on the religion and i was friends with Muslims. It did make me more familiar with the ideas of militant jihadi Islamists. I also think it has contributed to the mis-education of many Americans on Islam -- they've become more aware of Islam, but I don't think they are any more enlightened.

 

Hakeem Olajuwon made me more aware of Islam back in the 90's.

 

No I was already aware of Islam and the fact that an overwhelming majority are peaceful while a minority of them are radical idiots.

 

He was successful in making many people fear and hate Islam, and he has been successful in making some Muslims to jihad against the West. But it does not seem he has won any war to date

 

I think 911 was unsuccessful in the short term from Bin Ladens perspective. It actually did the reverse in attended affect in bringing everyone together and the fact that our NATO allies showed that they had our backs.

It was successful in other ways that Bin Laden probably never considered such as invading Iraq which led to Isis indirectly but also opened up ways for more than ISIS to have more ability to fund through control of the resources and taxing citizens. ISIS is actually a competitor of Al Queda so even that wasn’t a complete victory for Bin Laden regardless. In the end though, in Afghanistan, Al Queda is thriving for many different reasons but I wouldn’t directly relate them to 911. W probably was going to invade Iraq regardless.

I think Russian propaganda, covert operations, weaponizing fundamentalist extremists on the right, and the rise of nationalism is having a much greater impact in damaging our democracy & ultimately creating vacuums for fringe criminals to gain power. They just don’t need to do it by having their young footsoldiers blow themselves up.