Today's NEW YORK TIMES carries a story out of the White House about
propriety at 9/11 observances:
WASHINGTON - The White House has issued detailed guidelines to government
officials on how to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11
attacks, with instructions to honor the memory of those who died on
American soil but also to recall that Al Qaeda and other extremist
groups have since carried out attacks elsewhere in the world, from
Mumbai to Manila.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/politics/30terror.html?_r=1&hp
I became involved in addressing Islamophobia after lasts year's sad
demonstrations over the Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero.
Demonizing Muslims/Islam violates all our 7 Principles.
If for some tragic reason anyone feels the need to remind the gathering
of Muslim terrorists, I hope they will be fair and balanced. What about
other terrorists?
1) On 22 July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik allegedly bombed government
buildings in Oslo, which resulted in eight deaths. Within hours after
the explosion he arrived at Utøya island, the site of a Labour Party
youth camp, posing as a police officer and then opened fire on the
unarmed adolescents present, reportedly killing 69.] The youngest
victim was Sharidyn Svebakk-Bøhn, who had just turned 14 years old.
2) May 31, 2009, George Tiller was shot through the eye at close range
and killed, during worship services at the Reformation Lutheran Church
in Wichita, where he was serving as an usher and handing out church
bulletins.Tiller was first discussed on The O'Reilly Factor on
February 25, 2005. Subsequently Tiller was discussed in at least
28 episodes before his death. On the show he was sometimes described
as "Tiller the Baby Killer".
3) The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27,
1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States during the 1996 Summer Olympics,
the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. Two people died, and
111 were injured. With one bomb designed to go off after the second,
Rudold deliberately focused on first responders.
4) June 10, 2009 A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington's
Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security
guard before being wounded himself by return fire from other guards,
authorities said.Stephen Tyrone Johns, a six-year veteran of the museum's
security staff, later "died heroically in the line of duty," said
Sara Bloomfield, museum director.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/museum.shooting/#cnnSTCText
5)May 14, 2011 Three masked men break into the Madrasah Islamiah, an
Islamic center in Houston, and douse prayer rugs with gasoline in an
apparent attempt to burn the center down. Images of the men are captured
on surveillance cameras, but they are not identified. The fire is put
out before doing major damage.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a value report, Terror From the
Right :
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right
For UU resources for 9/11 observances,
go to http://www.uupeacemakers.org/
911peacecircles 