Identity: Islamophobia

Questions that beg answers

From the archive (2001): the questions of the weeks after 9/11, kept unedited — the discipline of public questioning, worth keeping and teaching.

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24 Oct 2001 • 1 min read

Why this matters now (2026): A list of questions posted in the weeks after 9/11 — who benefits, who defines terrorism, who counts the dead. Kept unedited as a record of what an unanswered moment felt like. Some questions have since acquired answers; the discipline of asking them publicly is the part worth keeping, and teaching. See About the QeRN Archive and Knowledge That Benefits.

Who really benefits from the events of Sept 11 – Muslims or anti-Muslims?
Who has the power to define and is defining terrorism?
Estimated number of people killed through the US actions in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Middle East during the last 60 years?
IRA training camps and supporters, including the americans, are well known but why there have been no attacks on IRA resources? (IRA has claimed thousands lives, including the Queen’s uncle, in main-land UK)
In view that any criticism of the state of Israel is taken as an attack on Jews, why the attacks, physical or otherwise, on Muslim countries should not be seen as attacks on Islam?
Are the so called ‘moderate’ Muslims honest in propagating a non-conflictual model of Islam whilst Islam not only asks people to say Allah-o-akbar but also to implement it, and similarly Islam is not only about living in peace but also to implement peace?
Why some so called Muslim leaders use the terninology such as extremists, fundamentalists and nationists to divide Muslims while the fact is that these terms do not relate to Islam at all?

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