Remembering 9/11

I’m always sad to see memes like this.

No one who was over four years old in 2001 will ever forget 9/11, and thus it’s clear that remembering the tragedy isn’t what this is about at all; it’s simply an expression of Islamophobia.  It’s the staggeringly ignorant and malicious statement that somehow 1.8 billion people (23% of the world’s population) are now the enemies of the United States.

Those of us who work towards the goal of a sustainable civilization understand that rank bigotry has no place in it; in fact, prejudice against whole groups of people works directly against the aim of coming together as a species to achieve common goals.