It’s been 8 years, but I still remember watching the images on television of the WTC falling. The first few seconds I don’t think I was able to quite comprehend what was happening, or believe, or get my head around those pictures.
Indira was only 5 days old that day and I remember feeling so scared and despondent that for all its’ progress the world could still on occasion be a dangerous and uncertain place.
Then yesterday, when she asked me, after having picked up some talk on the subject in the school play ground, why September 11 was a sad day for American people, I found myself unprepared to answer her question though it has been 8 years. But I will talk to her, this weekend, to explain just what happened and why – for it is important that she knows and understands – and this essay
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/explaining-911-to-a-muslim-child/?apage=6
will help me arrange my thoughts.
Moina Noor, the person who has written it tells of her experience so simply and with such integrity and very much from the heart. I found it very moving and was able to relate completely to how she must feel as a mother dealing with the issue.
She says at the end “….I explained that good and bad exists in every group, even your own…” which, I think, is the essence of what we all need to understand.
An Indian Kitchen in France 