Remberance for the Other 9/11

Though many people associate 9/11 to the atrocities of the airliners crashing into the WTC at New York which has been promptly followed by George Bush's rather misplaced War on Terror, in which seems to be an "eye for a eye" knee jerk reaction that was a huge blow to the already fragile relationship between the somewhat Christain leaning USA with the Muslim worldwide community and forcing the rest of the world to take sides on this issue. For most moderates, the events that transpire since then has been a huge worry, as you can notice, two adversaries that seem to be so different, they are actually very similar in their basic premises. Though both look completely different, if you look deeper, you can notice that both are preaching the same message of hate, division, and a distinct racist attitude - only different in the fact that they are directing them against each other, and each have different resources which also reflects choice of methodology of liquidating each other. And to make my point simple, I can just simple state that the Cycle of Violence is begining a new Cycle.

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To me, there is no reason to glorify any of these Hawkish leaders on this day. What I want to point out that if we go back 99 years from today, there was another very significant event on the day of September 11. On September 11, 1906, one of our world's most famous leader, Mahatma Gandhi, has just launched his the first mass campaign(Called Satyagraha) of nonviolent struggle, in Johannesburg, South Africa due to discriminatory laws leveled against Indians living in South Africa. The events that has transpired during September 11, 1906 is an our world's first example of civil disobedience and non-violence which is a tract that many civil right movements in the world has continued upon some fine examples include Martin Luther King, Jr. (United States) and Nelson Mandela(South Africa).

It is long known that the best way to solve violence is to end it with kindness not additional or overwhelming violence. Violence only breeds violence.

For today, though our world should not forget the atrocities caused on 9/11, I want to spend some time to remind our world that the other more historical important 9/11 goes by rather unheeded, unheralded, and forgotten by most of people these days.