Terrorism, Peace and Diversity :: September 11 Terrorism Essays

Terrorism, Peace and Diversity Acts of terrorism accentuate the urgent need to promote ease. Yet, this is also an opportunity to promote diversity. Indeed, peace and diversity are related. --It is a good time to look at ripple effects and connections. --More than 1/3 of the plenty killed in the domain Trade Center on September 11 were non Americans. They were citizens of 70-80 former(a) countries. Hundreds were Muslims. --More than 40% of residents of New York City are foreign-born. --The dead and missing and 6,000+ hardened at hospitals in New York City, and several hundred more at the Pentagon and in the Pennsylvania crash, have families and friends--if each one has only 10 family and 10 friends, thats 250,000 people directly connected to the injuries and deaths, in shock and grieve for their personal loss and grief--but of course the number is much larger. If there was a funeral every day, it would be 20 years of going to funerals. --many Americans apparently do non know about the differences between Muslim and Hindu, or Arab and Muslim, not to mention Sikh and Coptic Christian, much less between terrorist and fellow-citizen. Many do not make any distinctions, do not consider about making distinctions. --Americans are notoriously bad at discriminating geography and languages, cultures and religions. Now, the situation cannot be understood without knowing about Kashmir, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Iraq, for starters, not to mention the internal conflict in Afghanistan, the nuclear bomb tests by India and Pakistan, and how the United States, the largest weapons dealer in the world, provided missiles to the Mujaheddin in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union that some people fear may be utilise against the U.S. --I recall the corporate audiences in New Jersey who told me that more than 20% of Americans are Jews. The correct figure is 2-3%. Many African-Americans, part of a concourse that is 13% of the population, do n ot recognize Jews as a nonage group. There are about 3.5 million Arab Americans and about 3-5 million Muslims (theres no accurate count) in the USA. Should it matter how large or small a group is to be covered by the Bill of Rights, by elementary American principles? I think we should volunteer to be resource people in local schools.