9/11 is a date the whole world remembers for the attack by Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans including few foreigners. In today’s world, radicalised religious people can wreak havoc was brought home by the spectacular suicidal attack that involved crashing four fully laden commercial jets after they had taken off within minutes of each other. Less spectacular but more insidious is hate speech and jingoism and this is not limited to radical Islamists. Any religion, including Hinduism can be exploited by fanatics to spread hate and invoke tribalism which at population scale can wreak havoc or societal damange far beyond the 9/11 attack of 2001. It is important to udnerstand the ideas of INCLUSIVITY vs EXCLUSIONARY tenets.
Satya Naryana Sahu writes in The Wire: Remembering 9/11 Speech of Swami Vivekananda That Warned Us of the Dangers Posed by Fanaticism
Swami Vivekanand’s speech of 9-Sep-1893 in the first meet of the World’s Parliament of Religions: Sisters and Brothers of America..
What were the exclusionary beliefs of al Qaed boss Osam Bin Laden:
According to bin Laden’s ideology, non-Islamic believers may be deliberately killed in support of jihadism. This position evolved from an earlier, less violent one. In a 1998 interview, he alleged that in fighting jihad, “we differentiate between men and women, and between children and old people,” unlike hypocritical “infidels” who “preach one thing and do another.” But two years later he told another interviewer that those who say “killing a child is not valid” in Islam “speak without any knowledge of Islamic law”, because killing non-Islamic believers may be done in vengeance. In other words, bin Laden’s interpretation of Islamic doctrine allows retaliation against U.S. citizens because of perceived indiscriminate U.S. aggression against Muslims. To another question by a Muslim interviewer about Muslims killed in the September 11 attacks, bin Laden replied that “Islamic law says that Muslim should not stay long in the land of infidels,” although he suggested Muslim casualties in the attack were collateral damage. Wikipedia article
Radical Hinduism – example of exponents of militant Hindutva who are getting a free pass in today’s India: Hindu far-right leader Yati Narsinghanand