And 9/11 was already 16 years ago

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Myanmar’s Buddhist terrorism problem

Hindu Terror Does Exist, They Indulge Only In Violence These Days: Kamal Haasan

No religion has a copyright on violence.
People will always seek to legitimize their supremacy over others by pretending their beliefs as the will of some god or another.

What's scarier are the people who actually believe it.

As someone who actually lives on the East Coast, and who spent the entirety of 9/11 under Code Triage, I can assure you...we weren't nearly as scared as folks who were much farther afield.
It was interesting to watch as the talking heads who made bank off the notion that Coastal Elites weren't really American did a complete 180 after the attacks.

We weren't really all that scared after the Marathon Bombing either.
Big Papi said it best.

The issue, from where I'm standing, is that prior to that day in September, most of America was very happy to turn a blind eye to the dumpster fire that was/is American Foreign Policy. And then the towers fell, and folks were disillusioned and confused, and it's easy to turn those kinds of emotions into anger. And what you get then is Homeland Security.