You ignorant Americans with your savage and macho patriotism. Chanting USA at a football game on 9/11 is incredibly insensitive to our Muslim population that has been constantly under attack by US imperialist actions. It’s propaganda and an lowly militarism according to David Green; a University of Illinois Professor quoted in the independent publication “Daily Illini”.
“Patriots are prone to “obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk” chants.
Daily Illini – Block-I chant portrays ‘neither patriotism nor remembrance’
The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation. Continue Reading…

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