Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
One of the most often asked questions posed after America was attacked on 9/11 was, __hat has the United States done to arouse so much Muslim hatred?_ The question, however, is on the same moral level as asking what German and other European Jews did to cause the Holocaust, or what blacks did to arouse the hatred among the American whites who lynched them.
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One of the most often asked questions posed after America was attacked on 9/11 was, __hat has the United States done to arouse so much Muslim hatred?_ The question, however, is on the same moral level as asking what German and other European Jews did to cause the Holocaust, or what blacks did to arouse the hatred among the American whites who lynched them.
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