Michigan Dem Abdul El-Sayed condemns cruel 9/11 attacks after previously using date to mourn Muslim civilians
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed kept the focus on the victims of 9/11 on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks — after previously using the date to mourn the Muslim civilians who died in ensuing US military operations.El-Sayed made a concerted effort to mark the occasion in a more traditional manner, leading a moment of silence at a campaign event Friday and releasing a 91-second video remembering the “cruel act of terror” and the “murder of innocent civilians” by terrorists who “attacked the idea of America.”“We all remember where we were when the Twin Towers were hit,” El-Sayed said in his remembrance, recalling how he watched the second hijacked plane hit the South Tower while attending a high school chemistry class in the Detroit suburbs.“The scenes of carnage dominated our screens for weeks.They dominate our memories still,” said the former Columbia University public health professor.“That cruel act of terror took the lives of more than 3,000 kids, women, men — including brave first responders who ran into the rubble to save lives that day.
Thousands more were injured.Many continue to suffer the consequences even today.”“They didn’t just attack America that day,” El-Sayed said.
“They attacked the idea of America, the notion of a nation brought together by ideals where it doesn’t matter how you pray or if you pray at all, a place where freedom and commitment to justice bind us even if at times we struggle to fully realize it.”“Today, on 9/11, we honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism,” he went on.“Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians — nothing.And on this day we mourn the victims, their families and the destruction those terrorists caused.
They tried to diminish America.They tried to make her smaller.
They tried to turn us against each other.They failed.
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