Link: https://fair.org/home/remembering-9-11-but-not-the-victims-of-the-us-response/

On September 11, 2001, 2,977 people were killed by airplane hijackers affiliated with Al Qaeda, who were mostly Saudi Arabian citizens. The post-9/11 wars waged by the Bush administration directly killed (conservatively) nearly a million people in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, though indirect deaths likely exceeded 4 million. Stateside, blatant Islamophobia increased—there were 481 anti-Islamic hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2001, vs. 28 in 2000—as US citizens were propagandized to associate everyday Muslims with terrorism.

And yet in remembering 9/11 on its 25th anniversary, US corporate media opinion sections overwhelmingly focused on the victims who died on 9/11, while largely ignoring the post-9/11 victims who outnumbered them by more than 300 to 1...