Isra
aka Tree2008
Flag burning by Muslims only serves the agenda of the anti-Muslim groups that like to paint Islam as an evil and violent religion. Sometimes we think that we are doing something good, while not realizing that it's only hurting us. As far as the U.S. Reaction after 9/11, I think America expected the government to react the way they did, and they reacted in the way I would've expected Saudi Arabia to have reacted if Makkah and Madinah had been attacked. Many people don't understand that the Twin Towers was America's Kaaba.
As salamo alaikome
Although I cannot possibly speak for every American I wanted to add that I believe what many Americans felt that day was more than just the loss of a couple buildings. America hadnt been attacked on its own soil since Pearl Harbor! Most or at least many Americans had come to feel secure in the fact that although war was raging outside of its lands they were safe at home. We believed that no other country could attack us on our own soil because we had the technology to stop it before it would ever happen.
Not for one second did we ever imagine in our wildest dreams that a terrorist group could use something that we relied on every day against us! Not only did they attack us that day but they attacked us from the inside. That was very unsettling to most Americans who lived a dream. That day we were awakened to the reality that nobody on this earth is completely safe. That is a very scary feeling when you lived your whole life believing in a security that was shattered in a matter of a few hours!
9/11 was much more than just a couple buildings being torn down. Even though people die everyday as one sister posted that day was much more significant than most people can imagine.
wa salam