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Less than a week after September 11, 2001, George W. Bush went to a mosque in Washington, DC, and declared that “Islam is peace.” He then proceeded to invade two Muslim countries that had nothing to do with the attacks on the twin towers in 2001.
9/11 changed the world, and it did so in two dramatic ways.