30 Heartbreaking Stories That Show How The Lives Of US Muslims Changed After 9/11
The 9/11 terrorist attacks that devastated the United States in 2001 have had profound political, economic and social effects that still reverberate to this very day. However, most people don’t focus on the consequences that the attacks had on the social fabric of America, even though they were incredibly impactful.
US Muslims and people of color turned to Twitter to tell the stories of how their lives were changed by the 9/11 attacks. Using the #AfterSeptember11 and #After911 hashtags, they revealed the intense persecution they and their family members faced because of their religious beliefs, how they looked, and how they dressed. The following is a list of the most poignant stories. Upvote the ones you felt touched you the most, and leave a comment with your thoughts about 9/11 and its effects on the US and the world below. After you’re done reading, have a look at Bored Panda’s post about the incredibly heroic search and rescue dogs who are remembered for doing their duty at Ground Zero 18 years on.
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My heart breaks for much a needless and senseless loss. I'm so sorry you had to grow up without your mum.
Verbal and physical abuse against Muslims was rife in the weeks, months and even years following the terrorist attacks. From bullying in schools to taunts in public, both Muslims and people of color were ‘presumed to be guilty’ for what happened. The people who thought themselves to be just as American as anyone else found themselves outcasts in a society that didn’t know how to deal with their grief and anger.
Even though for some the memory of 9/11 fades, for others it is still as though the tragedy happened yesterday. And new information about what happened is still coming out even now. For example, according to CNN, the US Justice Department has recently stated that it will reveal the name of a person who is believed to have aided two of the 9/11 hijackers.
That's very sad, the same happened during WWII with Adolf, the royal family changed its name to Windsor to be less German sounding and for a while German shepherds were called Shepard dogs. None of that should be important, but it matters to people.
Americans in New York honored victims of the attacks at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. During the ceremony, two moments of silence were held (one for each plane that hit the World Trade Center); names of all the nearly 3,000 people who died were also read. This year was the first time that all New York schools were legally required to hold a moment of silence.
I'm really sorry. But as a German I can tell you that we have been doing that for 70 years. And none of my relatives were involved in the genocide
I'm usually against violence, I'd have done the same if they badmouthed my dad
"Teachers never did anything".... horrendous cowards that they were. For the sake of all deities... she was a *kid*, and was deserving of protection.
So, you should tell him that white man should be banned from world because a lot of them rapes, attack schools and kill childs, etc. This is so ridiculous.
In my personal experience, I've found that more black people who I worked with were the most anti-Muslim / anti-Arab. I was shocked, considering what they've experienced in life.
Teacher should’ve been reprimanded, at the very least, for that.
The fact that you'd deprive your child of a friend says everything about these "parents" before you look at all the other inherent wrongs
I read about adult Muslims being beaten and even killed after 9/11 but I didn’t think how awful this must have been for the children. Here it is 18 years later and I’m just now learning of this. To all the children who suffered from 9/11, both from parents dying in the attack and those attacked afterwards, please accept my apologies for my ignorance.
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I was raised that you open your arms to anyone - black, white, brown, purple, green with orange polka-dots, Christian, Muslim, Jew, toilet-worshiping, gay, straight, lamp-lovers - ANYONE, as long as they were honest hard-working people. I will never judge a person by their appearance or religious beliefs, only by their actions. Considering this upbringing originated from a tiny lady who was born in the early 1900's in rural Iowa (my great-grandmother), I'd say she was pretty progressive; and her love and caring for all people has been a gift. So to anyone who might read this who feels outcast, you've got a friend/ally in me!
ctd. in the 1980s / 1990s We had families fleeing the violence in Ireland. Catholic *terrorists* bombing Protestants and vice-versa. My point is it is the terrorists of *any* flavour that are the problem. NOT an entire religion / race / country / ... sexuality / ..um what else ?
I was brought up even though certain things in my religion like gays marriage isnt right, they are humans worthy of love and compassion
When I was growing up our schools taught us to be polite to everyone. No matter where they came from / what their religion is / colour of skin. This is in the 1960s, 70s. Lot of refugee families from the horrors of ww 2. That was an Australia i could be proud of. And we were taught a bit about the holocausts.
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People forget that the 9/11 attacks were designed to promote massive blowback and retaliation against muslims in the West to prove the recruitment propaganda right
John confused conflated Islam with a single country.
John Smith must have also forgotten Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich .....seems kinda like WW2 was a Holy War...John turn off his reply button, the mark of a true hit and run coward.
Which in return caused more violence.
I remember after the Oklahoma City bombing by Tim McVeigh, anti Muslim attacks sky rocketed. After it was found out that McVeigh was the one, no apologies given. Haters just want to hate, regardless of the reason.
Hey Dave G do you remember the countless incidents in which PEOPLE harmed other PEOPLE? Not just Muslims or Jews or Christians or Atheists or any specific religion, just people.
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i guess John L is a holocaust denying nazi too. im surprised how many boredpanda users are also stormfront users
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hey John L do you remember the 1929 massacre in Hebron? just wondering
To anyone reading Dave G's comments: not all Jews think this way. I come from a Jewish background and yes my grandma is wary of immigrants and Muslims because of the whole Israel/Pakistan issue, but there are lots like me who have tried to understand everyone's perspective, and not judge people for things others have done no matter what. Please don't listen to Dave - yes, the Habron massacre was bad but that DOES NOT mean all Muslims are evil. By the way: just from reading that Wikipedia article, I learned that over 400 jews were hidden from the massacre by Arabs. Just saying - Dave is just hiding his hate behind these 'facts'. I am friends with several Middle Eastern people and they are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Don't hate anyone, please.
Yeah, Dave's a moron. but did you mean Israel/Palestine ?
Dave. Not everyone who disagrees with you is automatically a Nazi. You really need some assistance to manage your emotions and come to grips with the real world.
Oops yes, thanks!
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yes anyone who talks about real historic events and is educated about world history is a moron, good job valerie you're really smart. your swastika is showing by the way
Jews have also raped, killed and tortured muslims. Hundreds of thousands of them. Overall, we have all done atrocities to others, and I think anyone, like Dave, who chooses to dwell on that and keep talking about that is stupid. He says there are thousands of accounts of all the bad things muslims have done. Well Dave, same. We have hundreds of thousands of accounts. Genocides are happening right now in the muslim world and no one knows. But here's the thing. Instead of keeping this endless cycle of hate going on, I think you need to grow up a little, let go of the past, and look forward to a better future. Be the better person. That's what I want to do, and that's what everyone here on Bored Panda is tring to do. It's no longer that time. It's the 21st century, and mankind wants to move on from this barbarious hate and killing. We're trying to be more accepting and fogiving. We want to embrace everyone, regardless of differences. Stop being an ass and try working for a better future.
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When did we kill, rape and torture hundreds of thousands of muslims Living_shadow? When? It was you who did this to Jews not the other way around. Never have we done this to you. You bomb our cities, you murder and rape our women and children. We bomb terrorist installations. You hide behind women and children and use them as meat shields then you want to blame us for their blood? You are barbarians
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Eventually - I hadn't seen your comment until after I did one of mine. Sorry, and thank you. I don't want to go into detail, but much of my anxiety disorder is because of seeing a documentary called 'World At War' when I was little. I was brought up to defend the Jewish people by my parents. My mom is 1/2 Syrian.
I understand. I don't have anxiety, but I too was brought up to think that Israel is the holy land and Palestinians are unfairly attacking Jews. I only realized the truth about the whole situation (not as one sided as I thought) until I looked up #freePalestine. We're all at fault, but no one race is all bad. Also, no worries about your comment :)
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Jews have been being raped, murdered and oppressed by Muslims for literally hundreds of years and there is literally a wealth of archeological evidence, entire history books written about it but boredpanda users want to cover it up because this site is really just stormfront
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I grew up in NYC my wife worked on 92nd floor. Your statements may be true. What I find inexcusable is that there were NO outcry by MUSLIMS of the events of the day, to the contrary, Muslims in Jersey City across the River cheered and ceremoniously shot guns in the air.
Yes there was. Most of it was hidden away, drowning in a sea of backlash. What do you want them to do, send you a food basket? You don't expect the same from anyone else.
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400 jews were hidden by like 4 arab families while virtually every other arab in the city was in the streets with knives in their hands hunting jews. nice history knowledge Eventually you fucking dumbass
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To anyone reading Eventually's comments, you can rest assured this guy is not a Jew and is probably a skinhead neo-nazi who has a poster of Hitler in his bedroom. He probably wakes up and prays to his idol, Adolf Hitler every day and praises him for murdering 6 million of my jewish brothers and sisters. Also remember that Hitler wasn't the first person to commit a holocaust against the Jews. Muslims waged their own holocaust against Jews for literally centuries. In 1929, decades before Hitler rose to power in Nazi Germany, Muslims were going door-to-door hunting down Jews, raping and torturing them to death. 1929 wasn't the first time either. thousands of similar genocides happened in the holy land during the past several thousand years. its part of the reason why jews were exiled and spread across the world, mingling with other ethnic groups and assimilating into other cultures. we literally had our nation destroyed, our national identity destroyed by muslims, 100s of yrsbefore hitler
Wow, Dave. You just called me, a 15 year old Jewish girl, a neo nazi? Great job defending your argument. You go and spread hate, I'll be over here treating people how they as individuals deserve, not just thinking that everyone is a terrorist or a nazi for disagreeing with me. Thanks for the intelligent discussion.
Okay Dave G, I'll bite. I don't know what you hope to achieve by continuing to mention Hebron 1929. That muslims have done terrible shit? Well yeah, that's a fact, and constantly. You only have to look at the Ottomon empire and forced conversion to see. But does that mean that they've not been victims of others or that Jews/Israeli's can't be perpetrators? Or that there aren't equally horrific atrocities other than the Holocaust (supported by those lovely Belgians) ie. Congo. Fact is, History is a shitstorm of violence in which Muslims have only been a part of, so just like Jews, an innocent person's mother or child shouldnt be made to answer for something they didnt do. I fully acknowledge (and am deeply saddened by) Hebron 1929 and the fact Jews have been persecuted constantly, Even during the black plague, Jews were murdered and thought to have caused it! even though they were cleaner than most due to their religious practices and probably aided in curbing it.
Dave G PEOPLE have been raping and murdering PEOPLE for literally hundreds of years. Why bring religion into it? Why not accept that people can and will be horrible. Of course, not everyone will be horrible but plenty will. Religion plays no part, nor does race, gender, or sexuality, okay?
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the point im trying to make, valerie, is that muslims have been raping and murdering jews for literally hundreds of years. the hebron massacre of 1929 was not an isolated incident. this has been happening literally thousands of times for hundreds of years. if you really want i can compile an exhaustive list of things that muslims did to other ethnic groups, most notably jews, that would make hitler look like Santa claus. No other groupp in the history of planet earth has committed as much genocide and evil as the muslims and i have extensive proof of this. Jews, in comparison, have never committed anywhere near the scale of atrocities that muslims have throughout our time on this planet, even if you want to bring up our history of combat with palestenians, it pales in comparison to what they did to our people, especially considering their hatred for our kind dates back far longer than our hatred of them. i also am pointing out that bored panda is basically a stormfront clone
Dave, why focus only on Hebron? Is it personal? If so, I could tell you stories about my ancestors in Poland/Belarus...your incessant diatribes are shameful to our Bored Panda community. Focus on the post, not yourself. -Dr M
You seem to be forgetting that the Western powers existed in this scenario. Was agent orange a dream to you? i too can provide an exhaustive list. And again, I'm not denying muslims did terrible shit and are still going and as with all the abramaic religions, is ludicrous. Are you going to come out and say it? That you think these muslims deserv this treatment? You're calling BP stormfront, and while I agree that they do get nazi-ish with differing opinions, they're downvoting you because you're acting stormfront-ish towards muslims in 2019, who had nothing to do with it. You're using this as a platform to spread hate and cause tensions because you can't stand people not feeling sorry for Jews for a change. I could start doing that, go on 9/11 posts and talk about how the subsequent U.S insurgency resulted in killing thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians but I won't because everyone involved was a regular person with hopes and dreams and somebody loved them
Ok. You're right. What should we do then?
I have tears in my eyes. Why are people so stupidly close minded?
Why? Ignorance, naivety, and fear. (not that it justifies such behaviour). :(
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i find it very ironic that someone who denies the holocaust and censors comments that talk about genocides of jewish people committed by muslims decades before hitler even rose to political power has the gall to talk about "ignorance, naivety, and fear"
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Begin with what they learn in school, what their religion teaches them as being the only ones who adhere to the "right" religion (no matter which religion), how mass media sells on scandal, horror, and hate, and do not forget the political dimension. The USA went to war with Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, after 9/11 even though 15 of the 19 terrorists were Saudi citizens. The reason being? Maybe billions of them, in arms contracts.
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i agree i mean why did all those muslims have to murder an entire village of innocent jews in hebron in 1929? that was really messed up dont you guys agree? google it by the way if you think im making this up
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yup see called it. already downvoted for stating basic historic facts
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i already know they'll downvote me for bringing up a real historic event too cant have people discussing real history now can we, just made up bullshit
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the same reason they downvote me for literally posting a wikipedia article about the hebron massacre of 1929. ignorance and racism
What is with Dave and Hebron? Ok dude we hear you, doesn’t mean the Muslims don’t face discrimination too. I actually read up on it too, calm down Dave. We get it.
Queen, know that many of us Jews stand by our Muslim brethren.
I am a jew and I stand by and defend Muslims
Queen, he accuses anybody with a semblance of compassion for another race of being a holocaust denying anti-semite. His emotions are high because he thinks Jews were the only persecuted people to ever exist and that history is all about them, forgetting they make up the tiniest, and I mean tiniest portion of the world population. Bit like how the U.S thinks its the centre of the universe
And also fortunately MANY Jews stand by and support Muslims.
Also not all of the U.S. thinks this way.
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Queen Jackson obviously you dont hear me since you dont see anything wrong with an entire city of innocent men women and children being raped and tortured to death. you even had the nerve to ask me if I was OK after talking about how I personally had friends and family murdered in the genocide. you're a racist and disgusting piece of shit
I always speak up whenever I hear people accusing Muslim on 9/11. I'm not even a Muslim.
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yup and here come the downvotes. it took them about 22 hours but 22 hours later my comment score is at negative 18 just for asking someone "what about hebron 1929?" this site is literally run by skinhead nazis
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what about Hebron 1929?
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just waiting for the downvotes to start because i brought up something real that actually happened. i know they hate it when people talk about real stuff here
Please, terrorists are NOT Muslims. They do not stand for Islam. They stand for their culture and brainwashed ideologies. Islam is not an ethnicity and it is not a country. Colour is not religion, neither is ethnicity. Religions do not preach hatered. Cultural aspects are not religious nor is Islam a culture. Seek knowledge. I repeat terrorist are not Muslims. Islam is against terrorism. Read the Quran. Please. Don't have the billions of people that have nothing to do with the terrorists, if terrorists said they were doing something in the name of pinnaples then you wouldn't hate pinnaples. If there is anyone that hates terrorism and terrorists the most are the real Muslims that are taught to never even hurt a fly. Read about things. This generation has such a great access to information but yet they rather watch TV and listen to far right extremists and racists than read things for themselves and find the truth about what things really are like.
No where in Islam does it say killing is allowed. Ppl always associating Islam with terrorism. The two don't go together.
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so you think the people who committed the hebron massacre of 1929 were also not muslims?
First of all read first what Islam is actually about. Killing an innocent person is the same sin as killing a the whole world population, you'll be answering for your sins like you've killed the entire human race so how's that supported by Islam? How are people that kill innocent people Muslims? That's my question. You are not a Muslim if you do these things. The Quran doesn't even prescribe stoning. Read please. Firstly read. Seek knowledge.
Also I literally just woke up I didn't just downvote you because I don't really like that button anyway I think it's a public shaming thing and that's ridiculous.
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lol silently downvote me without even answering my question how cute. and you wonder why no one takes you guys seriously. how can you expect anyone to even read what you type and take it seriously when your response to a question is to downvote someone
As an indian I have to say these acts were made worse from 9/11 and now brexit. im 36 and will tell you I still experience racism at least once a week and have done all of my life. Its so common in my life that I now don't notice, it has become a normal part of my life.
Sandeep, I'm so sorry that such abuse has had to become "normal" for you. It's totally uncalled for, unnecessary, and NOT NOT NOT your fault. Please take this comment, as my standing in solidarity with you, as an ongoing ally. :)
Thank you Pseudo that means a lot
Dave, Dont forget Jewish people were the only ones who have been subjected to massacres in our dark history. There are massacres happening today in central Africa with Christians killing muslims, Indians were massacred during colonial times. People are being killed in the middle east too. But i guess you never paid attention to history or the news did you? Your hatred of muslims due to the massacre in 1929 shows you are are not willing to move forward, unlike most of todays society
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There are many of us.
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yup just downvote the truth away remember to downvote anytime someone brings up real history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
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hey at least you're not jewish like me. remember we had an entire city of our people murdered by muslims in hebron in 1929. or maybe you diont remember that because you conveniently were never taught about that part of history and there's even someone going through all my comments that bring this event up and downvoting them so you wont be able to see them. nice how that works out huh
That’s so sad to hear. Do u live in the UK? I was planning to go to the US or UK for my post graduation in medicine but after reading this, I don’t think i can handle that much racism (I knew that racism still exists but didn’t know that it’s so common that u experience it at least once a week). I think i’ll have to reconsider my choices. I really hope things improve for you. Best wishes!
Thanks, don't be deterred by my comments. I do live in the UK and it is truly a beautiful country, with astonishing countryside views. its a small minority that you would experience this from, the same as any country, Its only brexit that has made this worse as now some people think its ok to be openly racist. you learn to just live with it
I'm truly sorry that racism has become a normal part of your life, that should never be the case. As a white person I apologise for the actions of other white people
Thank you Kaisu, but you shouldn't have to apologise for the tiny percentage of narrow minded people in this world.
Some of the haters and racists are trying to prove just how smallminded they truly are by downvoting this.
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why is a literal holocaust denying neo nazi skinhead talking about how smallminded haters and racists are? isn't that kind of hypocritical? if you have a problem with hate and racism maybe you should tear down that poster of adolf hitler in your bedroom monika and stop hating jews
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its funny because the same people in this comment thread calling other people racists are also holocaust deniers and antisemitic themselves, its really ironic when racists call other people racist anyway remember to smash the downvote button because i brought the 1929 massacre in hebron. cant have anyone talking about real history now can we
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the white guilt is strong in this one. must be scary going through life without a spine
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Can someone please for the love of Pandas, kick Dave G off?
Sad to see that there are many on boredpanda downvoting everyone who is saying words of support to all these youngsters who have been bullied. Hope the upvotes outweigh the downvoted.
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i guess nadine doesn't think its sad that a bunch of innocent jewish men , women and children were raped and murdered by muslims in Hebron in 1929. guess she also doesnt see a problem with downvoting historical facts to try to censor and cover up history
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nadine i think its even sadder to see there are so many bored panda users who are neo nazi skinhead holocaust deniers and actually downvote jewish users for posting wikipedia links to the Hebron Massacre of 1929. dont you think its sad that people are literally being downvoted for talking about history
Good grief Dave G would you just shut the hell up! This post is about Muslims who suffered after 9/11. So your comments have no place here. No one here is a holocaust denier or are hating Jewish people. Just stop with the hatred. Hatred towards ANY person is wrong.
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blugeagua another holocaust denying nazi trying to tell jews to shut up about genocides they lived through. blugeagua is part of a network of neo nazis on the internet who want to silence jewish voices, they want to bury the history of our people and they even lobby public schools to remove references to the holocaust from textbooks. they literally dont even want kids to learn about it. they want to erase our history. bluegeagua probably has a poster of hitler in his bedroom. he probably prays to it every morning before he goes to school dressed in a trenchcoat with a swastika on his shoulder
And Dave's another white man full of hate who can't let go of the past and everyone who has moved on from the past and is tyring to work for a better more accepting future is immediately a Jewish hating Nazi. Anyone who doesn't hate as much as he does is a bad person. He keeps blaming people unrelated to that incident for it. He convineintly ignores that bad things Jews have done to mulslims. He denies the fact that both sides have wronged each other, and that we're finially trying to move past that and coexist. He still wants to hate, because it's not in his mental capacity to work for a better, more accepting future. It's pathetic and sad, really.
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"hatred towards ANY person is wrong" says the jew-hating skinhead nazi lol. how ironic
Dave G., you act all high and mighty about how every downvote you get is just another Nazi praying to Hitler about how great Hitler was for how many he murdered, bit MAYBE, just MAYBE it's ACTUAL PEOPLE who are just sick of seeing your comments attacking anyone who hasn't spend their whole life feeling sorry about something that happened to the Jews. Maybe if you realized other people here are actual living people, you wouldn't be downvoted as much.
Can you please just act like an adult? You can`t take criticism, or be reasonable at all. You attack people, even when they agree with you. No one is saying that the incident in Hebron in 1929, should be forgotten or not be cared for. We/ i am saying that this is not the right place to inform. It is hard to feel sorry for you and the jewish who died, when you are hating on a whole religion instead of the people who did it. A whole religion is nor responsible or to blame for one man/womans actions.
Dave G. : What happened in Hebron was horrible. You keep posting the wiki link. Did YOU read it? Who hid the Jewish survivors? ARABS. Open your heart and let go of your anger. That happened 90 years ago. Worse has happened to the Jewish people since then. No animosity toward the German people living today? Hopefully not, since they have nothing to do with the Holocaust.
Exactly. Thank you for wording this perfectly
Dave's one of those people who can't be reasoned with. It's funny because Dave's so stuck on that one incident and he hates muslims who have nothing to do with it but he's not upset with Germans for the Holocaust??? Very hypocritical Dave. We're not saying the history is wrong, so stop whining about how accurate it is. Get out of YOUR little world of hate and try to understand what everyone is telling you; that time is gone. You can't go back and change what happened. You cannot hate people who had nothing to do with it.
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you guys are fucking idiots. its incredible how blind you are to basic history that any historian can tell you about. you live in your own fucking little world
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yes a tiny minority of i think it was 4 arab families in the entire city sheltered something like 400 jews while every other arab in the city was running in the streets with knives in their hands trying to kill and rape every jew they saw
This isn’t new behavior. We did the same to German-Americans during WWI, and Japanese-Americans (even worse) during WWII, plus countless groups before and after. We can be a bunch of sorry sacks of shit when threatened, and should learn to dismiss such knee-jerk reactions, and allow our cooler heads to take over, before acting out our worst and basest impulses. And when we see people who appear incapable of that basic level of self-control, we should stand up, defend the objects of their venom, and publicly call the attackers out as the rotten, filthy subhumans they actually are.
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Reports are starting to get declassified that show maybe what happened may have been justified. Three big Japanese spy rings that even had a member of the British House of Lords as a member in Hawaii prior to Pearl Harbor for example
That there were Japanese spies in America around WWII is a given and not shocking at all. Rounding up all Japanese Americans because of it is not a solution. What about the Germans? Are you saying there weren't any German spies in America? Why didn't we round up the Germans then?
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Where are your facts?
My aunt's brother (aunt through marriage), a Muslim, was killed by Isis for refusing allegiance to Isis. He was there to visit his mom who had a stroke. Upon hearing about his murder, she also died. That happened 2 years ago.
I'm sorry to hear that! People often forget that Isis is more violent towards fellow Muslims than towards westerners
Yes Dave G, we are sorry to hear about Hebron. It too was a tragic event
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are you also sorry to hear about the entire village of jews who were slaughtered by muslims in hebron in 1929 or does that not matter as much to you
John Smith, you are wrong. There are TONS of “Christians” that still kill people in the name of Jesus. White Christians who terrorize people for being brown, Muslim, Jew, queer, etc. it happens all the damn time. And even “pro-lifers (really just anti-choicers) who kill doctors who perform abortions of undeveloped FETUSES. And they do that in the name of their Christian god.
Is there any way to report someone's comment for being inapropriate? Cause there is this one insensitive guy, Dave G whose comments are bordering on hateful and inappropriate. Bored panda please do something.
I bet you anything that Dave G is not even really Jewish. He’s just trying to make Jews look bad. He’s just a racist troll.
I hope no one here takes Dave's behaviour to represent Jews and the Jewish faith! I'm Jewish and I was taught compassion, acceptance and healthy dialogue even with those we do not agree with. Normal Jews don't go around accusing people of being Nazis, Hitler worshippers or holocaust deniers. If Dave actually is a jew, then he's not a good one and his behaviour is not acceptable among the Jewish community I grew up in!
Click his profile name, tap report!!
Tap the three dots on the profile page, then click report.
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mainza i also want to know if theres a way to report inappropriate behavior on this site. for example there's a bunch of neo nazi skinheads, one of them named mainza munsanje that keep attacking jewish users for talking about real history in this comments section. can boredpanda.com admins please ban mainza and all other neo nazi skinheads like them? we really dont need another stormfront clone
I'm starting to think you're not actually Jewish, and you're only doing this in order to give Jews a bad name
We had four Muslims who lived in the upstairs apartment above us. They were brothers, trying to make a life for themselves after leaving Iraq. They were respectful, kind, and even friendly. We didn't get the chance to become friends because they moved in a week before 9-11. They were kicked out of the apartment by the landlords because suddenly their "credit was bad". Of course, they had already moved all their things in and had been given the keys. They didn't want to cause trouble after what happened, so they left. I sure hope they are doing ok.
We had a Muslim refugee living in our house for five years, in Belgium. After the attacks on the Belgian international airport he was sent home to Mauretania almost immediately. Even after dozens of credentials, letters etc. He taught me about Islam. There are things in this faith that I don't agree with, but love one another is not one of them. Respect each other, people. And look at every case individually. Criminals are from every colour, faith and nationality.
It's lucky we don't make old rich white dudes answer for every old rich white dude who drives the sex trafficking industry
JeannevB, that only people of a certain profile are immediately deported after such a thing happens, but anyone who is the same race or religion of anyone else who commits a crime can breathe freely. In this case, as an example, I mention the rich old white guys who have sex with little boys and girls in Thailand and the like, essentially permeating the sex trafficking industry, so imagine someone's kind old grandpa being deported the second they expose a sex trafficking ring miles away from him?
what does that have to do with my comment?
It is so easy to manipulate people. From my point of view, the authorities should address those crimes before they even arise. Do you know how the USA treated Japanese in America after Pearl Harbour? This country uses inequality so people can attack the poor ones, not the rich ones who are responsible...
fighting among ourselves is a good distraction technique for the powerful
This is the same sort of reprehensible treatment Asians in America received during WWII. We don't learn from history and too many people have such hate in them that it blinds them to the truth.
I had to stop halfway through so I wouldn’t cry in the middle of my school hallway. No one should ever be ashamed of, or have to apologize for something they didn’t do. Prejudice makes people blind to the truth and hateful and should never be encouraged. Don’t be a bystander if you see this happen, be kind!
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i guess ncc doesn't cry when an entire city of jews are raped and murdered by muslims. no tears for jews, after all you don't even think we're people right? we're just animals to you. Right NCC? How's that hitler poster in your bedroom doing
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yeah ncc dont be a bystander when you see this happen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre dont forget to mash that downvote button
I find it hypocritical how most racists and Islamophobes are right-wing "Christians" and yet they seem to forget that a guy who claimed to be Christian had 12 MILLION people put to death, half of those solely because they were Jewish. "Christians" have killed FAR FAR FAR more people just in the 20th century than Muslims did their entire history.
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hahaha kaisu the skinhead is mad because i posted about jewish history. i encourage all jews to keep posting about the genocides our people suffered to trigger skinhead nazis like kaisu even more. the more we spread the truth and real history the more angry they get. remember kaisu is one of the people who wants schools to remove all references to the holocaust from their textbooks. they want to bury and erase the history of the jewish race. lets make sure it doesn't happen. keep re-posting the same comments over and over, until every artery in kaisu's head pops
Shut up, sincerely from my Jewish, holocaust surviving family. You are a shame in the Jewish community, your behaviour goes against everything the Jewish faith is about. You need to seek out your rabbi and ask for help with this behaviour problem of yours.
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If you're going to knock a religion or group of people, at least be accurate about it. When you're purposefully not factual about an issue, it kills your credibility and you end up sounding like an asshole. Hitler wasn't a Christian or an Atheist. If anything he was a pantheist (God was nature). Stop trying to attribute Hitler to everyone with whom you disagree.
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Did you know that muslims actually were waging their own personal holocaust against the Jews long before hitler was even in power? Just as one example google the Hebron massacre of 1929. There was many similar massacres that took place for a long time. Sadly nobody teaches anyone about that part of history. It only seems like us Jews learn about it because our parents want us to remember what happened. everywhere else they want to bury this part of history so you never learn about what happened in Hebron in 1929. Theres even someone going through all my comments that mention it and downvoting them to try and get them censored. They don't even want people knowing what happened in Hebron in 1929. Literally trying to bury history
Yes we did know, after you posted a billion comments about it. Get a life.
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yup downvote my 100% true, historically accurate and verifiable comments until no one can read them. downvote the truth away until it cant you anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre remember to keep clicking downvote anytime someone brings up real history
No one likes to be blamed for someone else's actions, so why do it to others? I was a senior in High school during 9/11. There was a local Muslim store owner that was beaten to death by 3 white men days after it happened. I didn't understand it then and I still don't.
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welp I guess sterrinatu doesn't have a problem with an entire city of innocent jews being raped and murdered. color me surprised. bored panda.com aka STORMFRONT
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i agree sterrinatu i mean i thought it was really messed up when muslims decided to murder an entire city of jews in 1929 (the Hebron massacre of 1929) over some dumb rumor that was started by muslims about Jews trying to take over the world or something to that affect. They literally went door to door raping, torturing and murdering every jewish man, woman and child in Hebron. pretty insane that they want to exterminate our entire race in the holy land
You are boring
This is just utterly heartbreaking to read
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if you think this is heartbreaking to read wait until you read about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
When I got my first death threat it was online, and I was 11, and I freaked out. Then I remembered that there are over 1 million people out there that are willing to kill me if given the chance, and meeting one in person does not add to that number. I hope this helps any Muslims out there.
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No, Razan, there are not "over 1 million people out there that are willing to kill me if given the chance", as always, it is the rotten apples that stand out. The number ought to be zero, of course, and I am very sorry that you have had this experience. By the way, I love your stance, it is so logical and reasonable!
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a lot of jews got their first death threats in Hebron back in 1929. Then the next day a gang of mulims literally went door-to-door to every jewish household in the entire city, raping, torturing and murdering their whole family to death, including women and children. i know you'll downvote my comment because its talking about a real historic event that actually happened and you hate it when people like me talk about real true events that actually happened, but hey just thought i'd throw this out there. feel free to downvote my factual, historically accurate comment away until it gets censored and no one can read it so it doesn't hurt your dumb agenda anymore
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yup downvote my 100% true, historically accurate and verifiable comments until no one can read them. downvote the truth away until it cant you anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre remember to keep clicking downvote anytime someone brings up real history
Im muslim and I am in middle school. I remeber once when I was five, my mom, my brother who was six, and me who was 5, where kicked out of a resurant for being musilm. I also remeber one kid at school who was nice and rather innocent, saying that he was going to one day grow up and go to the army to blow up all the "bad muslims" the he smiled at me and told me he wouldn't blow ME up. I was 11 when I got my first death threat.
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I am Jewish and back in 1929, an entire city of Jews called Hebron was mass-murdered, raped and tortured by muslims just for being jewish. Think I'm making this up? Google it. look it up on wikipedia. it actually happened. let me know again how bad you have it though
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yup downvote my 100% true, historically accurate and verifiable comments until no one can read them. downvote the truth away until it cant you anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre remember to keep clicking downvote anytime someone brings up real history
These are just so heartbreaking. The ignorance in some people is astounding mistaking Sikhs etc for Muslims and targeting a whole group of people because of a few undesirables that “claim” they are Muslim. Terrorism has no religion.
Goli Soda, you obviously didn’t understand what I meant. Just because they are CLAIMING to do it for religion doesn’t mean it’s true. No actual, proper religious teachings encourage terrorism.
Goli Soda just because certain organised religious groups teach those things does not mean they are the proper teachings of their religion. They CLAIM to be religious but they certainly aren’t by their actions. Again my point stands. Anyone can claim they are doing it in the name of religion when the ACTUAL religious texts do not teach terrorism. Just because it has been either misinterpreted or skewed etc to suit their personal ideologies does not mean they are true Muslims, Christians, or every other religion. Anyone can claim to be a specific religion but doesn’t mean they are. If you are not following the proper teachings of your chosen religion through their written texts like the bible, Quran etc then you are NOT religious.
People that say "Go home" to muslims (and any foreign) shouldnt go back to anywhere since they are inmigrants since 1492? Who know where they are from, Eurpe, Asia, Africa... but not from US.
I am pretty sure native americans wouldn't mind sending back everyone and then make the strictest immigrant policies of the history of mankind.
My former boss was from India. He was a good man who was Hindu. I had the utmost respect for him. He was the kind of man you wanted to work hard for. A week after the attacks, he was nearly beaten to death, called a terrorist. He soon after sold his business and moved back to India with his wife, son, and newborn daughter. He called it a sickness, what the US was going through (and still is, in some cases).
That is so horrible to hear!
I'm so sorry for he and his family! I like the word he used: sickness.
I was responding to Daniel Lewis's comment. Still trying to figure out how comments work on BP.
And, there have been attacks in the name of Christianity. But, to include all Muslims and Christians as evil is just plain ignorance,.
Fuck this is so sad.
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i guess oscar doesn't think its sad when an entire city of jewish men, women and children are raped and murdered. i bet oscar has a poster of hitler in his bedroom too. fucking nazi skinhead piece of shit
I think you have a hitler poster, Dave. You hate a group as much as he does.
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if you think this is sad wait until you read about what happened in Hebron back in 1929 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
This makes me sad that Islamophobia exists. Just because a few Muslims are terrorists, doesn't mean ALL Muslims are terrorists. People should just be accepting of other people's beliefs, because they don't know their story...
Around here there was a business owner (jeweler) who was Muslim. Shortly after 9/11 he had a heart attack and someone spread the false rumor that he'd been nabbed by the fiBI.
I feel so sorry for all the people that have suffered and are still suffering from this horrible happening! I live in East Europe and i was about 15 when 9/11 happend i understood that it was a tragedy.....but it was not until later when i realized exactly how horrible this was not just for the ones that lost friends and family but to all the Muslims that needed to carry on in a world of hate !
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haha yup she downvoted me. veronika the hitler-worshipper who hates jews. feels sorry for muslims but doesn't care about the 6 million hitler killed or the thousands muslims killed in the holy land before hitler
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too bad you don't feel sorry for the jews who were murdered by muslims in Hebron in 1929
I really want to scream to the world that Islam, much like any other religions, DOES NOT promote or condone violence 😥 Being muslim doesn't automatically make one a terrorist...I'm a muslim and I don't consider those bombers as one of us. sadly nowadays its easier to put the blame on the religion instead of individuals.
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i guess moezaralla is another neo nazi hitler worshipper
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you're totally right moezaralla. all someone has to do is look up this historic article and itll prove everything you said right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
This is the same logic as saying a Christian caused a school shooting, so we should attack all Christians because of a couple people. (Not saying all shooters are Christian, I was just using an example)
Okay Dave G, let me tell you what I think. Yes, Jews have been attacked many times over, but so have Muslims. Are you trying to say that all Muslims deserve horrible treatment because of an event that happened 90 years ago? Because this post is to commemorate the horrible event on 9/11 that was committed by a small percentage of Muslims, and it is to talk about the aftermath. There are plenty of sites to commemorate hate attacks against Jews, and Bored Panda may have some articles. But it is not fair to call everyone hare nazis because no one here is. They are simply here to commemorate 9/11 and they downvote you because you are talking about something irrelevant (to this specific post) and you are doing so in a rude and insulting manner. Now do you see why you are being downvoted?
Ignorance and fear. Get out and learn. Open the mind and the heart to everything your told. The sad part is how afraid so many are afraid to find out more.
Reading threads like this, I only can feel so lucky and so happy to be born in Europe and not in the US. I'm very sorry for the people that have to life there and deal everyday with all of this, directly to you or to other people living with you.
What do I think? I think that these attitudes reflect a lot about the country in which they live.
Mean while in Australia the blood banks were flooded with people donating blood. thinking it might be given to survivors. Some laws would have to be changed to make inter country blood donations happen safely. But it was a lovely reaction.