Hey, I wasn’t aware Muslims also obsessed abt this. I attended a christian boarding school for girls and the “saved” girls used to run lunch time seminars about it, in one session I attended they played a Michael Jackson album. Nearly half the school believed in this nonsense.

Final words on this thread.

@Matthew

When you mentioned Mother Jones my heart sank big time.

Peace

Anyway check out this article - really can you blame the conspiracy theorists with things like this going on? (!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8324746.stm

@sabiwabi I think I get your point about some muslims and their constant denials. I bump into them now and then and the old classic that its the jews always makes me laugh.

I think me and you are generally on the same page with maybe a few lines to separate us.

If the blame is PROVEN to be ours then we take it. Muslims can and do evil things all the time.

When it comes to governments and ‘intelligence’agencies then I’m afraid for me personally I do not trust them especially considering their track record regarding the whole ‘war on terror’rubbish.

Tie your camel and trust in Allah.

Peace

I haven’t bought MJ in a while but read pretty much every copy in the local Borders (great for American import magazines) and it’s never done one on 9/11 conspiracies. If they thought there was anything in it, they would have taken it up very readily, I agree. Haven’t ever read Utne though.

As for loving knowing what everyone else doesn’t, I’ve seen this attitude with members of a certain ‘sufi’ sect. I was once talking to one of them about the pyramids in Egypt, and he said, with absolute certainty, “the Jinn built them”. I asked how he knew and he said, “some of us know these things” or something like that. I mean, they are not exactly impressive structures nowadays - just big piles of stone, not perpendicular, with tombs inside.

I think the point being made is not that these conspiracy theories might not be true, but rather the acceptance of the theories because they are basically what we want to hear. I know people who accept these theories as fact and then look down on others who they see as burying their heads in the sand.
Personally, I think it’s the love of knowing something that no one else knows, it’s a form of arrogance. I have no problem with the belief that it was the CIA who engineered 9/11, but I wouldn’t look down on anyone who thought that that was too far fetched, as it’s understandable that people wouldn’t believe this, hence the reason why it was such a successful cover-up!