Abstraction Quote by Edward Said

It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked…

— Edward Said

This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There…

— Edward Said

The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists…

— Nonie Darwish

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

— Peter Bergen

There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as…

— Richard A. Falk

Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke…

— Bret Weinstein

It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which…

— Edward Said

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

— Hamza Yusuf

Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

— Andrew Breitbart

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

— Amy Waldman

The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich Saudis are…

— Malcolm Nance