In commemorating the ninth anniversary of the attacks of September 11 in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, called on his countrymen to defend "our belief in tolerance religion "and said his country is at war against Islam," said our enemies are Al Qaeda and its allies, who are trying to kill us, but have also killed more Muslims than anyone. "
elements inescapable context of these statements are, first, the call made in the days before the pastor Terry Jones Gospel to burn copies of the Koran and the rejection that has prompted the project to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, in what must be interpreted as a result of a false debate between religious freedom, defended by Obama himself, and respect for the memory of the victims of the Twin Towers. Both episodes allows to assess the persistence, to nine years in the criminal attacks of anti-Muslim feelings of paranoia in the neighboring nation, in effect from September 11, 2001 was extended and strengthened the traditional xenophobia conservative parts of society U.S., and this generated a wave of hostility and racism against Arab and Islamic country which persists to this day. By way of example include the results of a survey recently published by The Washington Post: 49 percent of Americans claim to have unfavorable views of Islam, and almost a third of respondents say that the religion encourages violence.
is inevitable to establish a causal link between such attitudes and the response showed the government of George W. Bush after the attacks in the past nine years. Indeed, these attacks were criminal and unjustifiable reaction to interference-criminals, too, global power in the Middle East and central Asia. But the then U.S. president, rather than taking the trouble to understand the causes of anti-American sentiments that run the planet, was given the task of multiplying and deepening, instead of seeking justice, was given the task of achieving revenge, and with the pretext of strengthening the security of its citizens, ordered the bloody attack on Afghanistan and the subsequent military occupation of that unfortunate Central Asian country, resorted to alarmist speech and lying to justify the invasion of Iraq and inherited, in short, a more violent, divided and insecure.
Faced with closure, bad faith and manifest ignorance that characterized his successor, against Islam and the Arab world, called yesterday for Obama is a significant gesture of détente towards the followers of Mohammed. Indeed, healing and dispel the bitterness generated by nine years of military aggression, diplomatic and discursive against Arab and Muslim areas are not tasks that can be achieved only with declarations. Do not help much the threads of continuity between Obama and Bush administrations, and the persistence of the invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing hostility and double standards of the White House to Iran: the two elements, moreover, show a deviation of some aspects advanced and innovative policy agenda current international president of the United States. But as far as Washington claims away from warmongers, bigots and unilateral characterized the Bush administration will prevent to some extent to accentuate and extend, in the Islamic world, anti-American expressions such as anger that gave rise to attacks nine years ago in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
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