9/11 fallout continues to poison atmosphere: Pakistani daily
September 13th, 2011 - 12:31 pm ICT by IANSIslamabad, Sep 13 (IANS) The fallout of 9/11 “continues to poison the atmosphere”, taking a daily toll, said a Pakistani daily.
“As the commemorative days pass and the tears dry and the event that changed the world for all of us fades once more into the background; the fallout continues to poison the atmosphere,” an editorial in the News International said Tuesday, two days after the tenth anniversary of the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US that left nearly 3,000 dead.
Comparing it with the nuclear bombing during the Second World War in Japan, the newspaper said: “In the same way that the radioactive residues of the atom bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still killing people today, the fallout from 9/11 takes a daily toll.”
“Terrorism, its expansion as a global experience and franchise, is the best known toxic element that is a product of 9/11, but it has another, more insidious and perhaps in the long run more deadly poison that has affected millions - intolerance,” it added.
“Specifically it is religious intolerance that has grown over the last decade, and in particular the gap between the Islamic world and the West has widened to alarming proportions.”
It went on to say that intolerance has grown not just in the US but in many of the western states.
“France has seen the rise of the far right, with Islam one of its principal targets. The UK, Germany, Italy, Holland and Spain have all seen a polarisation of young people of differing faith groups…
“Intolerance, especially of America, has grown in some, but not all, parts of the Muslim world.”
The editorial said that little effort was being made in Pakistan “to produce a countervailing narrative…and the flames of intolerance are daily fanned by those who see merit and salvation in jihad”.
“Both sides of the intolerance paradigm invest heavily in self-fulfilling prophecies, with terrorism the collateral fallout. Intolerance may take generations to abate, and we need to find ways of mitigating it with no less energy than we fight terrorism,” it added.
- Lok Sabha remembers Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims - Aug 06, 2010
- Today is the 66th anniversary of the Atomic bombing event in Nagasaki, Japan - Aug 09, 2011
- 9/11: World no safer than 10 years back, says Chinese daily - Sep 09, 2011
- Brit journalist says tsunami affected Japanese town resembles atom bombed Hiroshima - Mar 14, 2011
- Japan observes 65th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing - Aug 09, 2010
- 'With 290 suicide attacks, Pakistan suffered most since 9/11' - Sep 09, 2011
- Lok Sabha members pay homage to Hiroshima bomb victims - Aug 06, 2010
- Pakistan has suffered a lot after 9/11: Daily - Sep 11, 2011
- Pakistan must rein in Hafiz Saeed, demands daily - Apr 05, 2012
- A decade since 9/11, Pakistan back to square one: Daily - May 07, 2011
- Urdu media doubts US claims on Osama killing - May 03, 2011
- Terror strikes have claimed 124,000 lives since 9/11 - Sep 12, 2010
- UN chief meets atomic-bomb victims in Nagasaki - Aug 05, 2010
- UK, US, France may attend Hiroshima bombing anniversary for first time - Jul 28, 2010
- Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat - Dec 20, 2011
Tags: alarming proportions, atom bombs, commemorative days, hiroshima and nagasaki, principal targets, radioactive residues, sep 11 2001, toxic element