And then, on September 11, the world fractured.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
Tags: murder 9-11 terrorism families-of-victims
The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.
Mike DavisTags: resistance terrorism guerilla tactics freedom-fighter
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
AberjhaniTags: humanity war faith heaven hope spirituality survival violence transcendence terrorism bombs human-rights-day massacre strength-and-courage survival-of-the-human-soul the-human-heart violence-in-syria
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
AberjhaniTags: fear truth love war heaven human-nature spirituality violence cruelty terrorism world-suicide-prevention-day police-reform police-shootings nonviolent-conflict-resolution
I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: united-states terrorism war-on-terror twitter
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: propaganda authoritarianism ideology terrorism war-on-terror 2012 twitter state-terrorism
We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
Robert LaceyTags: terrorism reformation
Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
Salman RushdieTags: history war religion free-speech literary memoir secularism terrorism aristotle fatwa averroës ibn-rushd
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: terrorism militarism terrorists
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
Haruki MurakamiTags: media law japan terrorism cult
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