I get your point, I just don’t think it is a very good one. Are we supposed to think that all of the Arabs/Muslims WTC workers stayed home from work that day? Were they were all in on it?
From what I have read 15 of the 19 hijackers didn’t even know it was a suicide mission. Do you expect me to believe that AQ informed all of the stock traders and bankers who came from Muslim countries to be away that day?
I suspect there were few Arab/Muslim victims only because there were few working at WTC. Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan have showed us that AQ cares nothing about killing their co-religionists.
Ya know what? You did get it!
1) There were several reports her on FR about a schoolboy across the river from the WTC who looked out the window, an told his teacher that it would be gone in a few days. His brother quickly dragged him away telling the teacher that he 'has a vivid imagination'.
That tidbit pretty much vanished down the memory hole.
2) One of the NYC papers published a list of fatalities by religion among the WTC victims. I never saw it but this was told to me by a usually trustworthy FReeper.
This information is no longer available. It is so far down the memory hole that not only has the article itself vanished, there is no information available on line about the religions represented in the population of the dead.
Don't believe it? I tried to compile such a list. It can't be done. That is why my list was painstaking compiled by nationality, not religion.
I defy you to find any list or statistical information on the faiths of the WTC victims.
Think about it.
Not one non-hijacker muslim fatality has ever been held out as an example of how islam suffered in the 9/11 attacks! Not one. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Doesn't that strike you as maybe just a *little* odd, given how quickly islam unites behind any perceived insult or threat, hmmmmm?
3) Yet another FReeper reported walking into a muslim run cafe in NYC on 9/11 and seeing the crowd of muslim clientele watching the coverage on TV. OK, we all did that. But we didn't cheer every time they replayed the Towers falling. They did.
So yes. Let me put this in crystal clear terms:
It is my considered opinion, based on their actions before, during and after the 9/11 attacks that muslims in NYC were advised to stay away from the WTC on 9/11.
If this is true we are in a far, far worse position with regards to the 'War on Terror' than we most imagine.
I beg of you, find some evident to show me I am wrong.