It Was Just After 6 a.m. Here In Southern California...
I was going through my email when an IM from Mark Ebner popped up.

He told me to turn on the TV.

I did -- to the horror that was 9/11, much of which took place perhaps 12 blocks down Greenwich Street from where I used to live.

I mention my connection to the place because, beyond the horror that I feel as a human being, I still find it hard to quite understand (and I hope you get what I mean) that this place I was very connected to...this huge piece of New York, a place I love...was brought down and all of these people were so horribly murdered. We're American. Except if we have some really shitty luck, don't expect horror to happen in our backyard. Or we didn't.

I'm adding to this post on Sunday morning: I basically feel very inadequate to talk about this, all of these people dying, terrified, simply because they were guilty of getting to their jobs on time.

COEXIST

Photo by Michael Foran, posted under Creative Commons license. His caption for the photo:

The Twin Towers burn on the morning of September 11th, 2001, as seen from the Brooklyn Promenade.

A friend's husband is alive today because she had an early meeting and he had to take the kids to school. There are so many other stories like this -- and tragically, so many that are not.

I have been reading in Islam since 9/11.

For more about why Islam is so dangerous to our lives, values, and the continuation of free societies, see the links at the top of the excellent site, thereligionofpeace.com. And, obviously, there are many Muslims who are good people, but Islam is a pernicious and deadly ideology.

Islam is not a religion but a totalitarian system masquerading as a religion, commanding the conversion or slaughter of the "infidel" (along with gays and apostates) and the rule of Islam around the globe.