So Americans killed pregnant women when they invaded Granada? Does he have proofs, or, as you suggested, facts?
And if he were in Newark on 9/11 how did he "see" black people jumping to their death from the World Trade towers? (Of course, no white people, only blacks...)
And his so-called "footnote" took the major part of that sermon.
And, of course, you do not dispute his AIDS comment. No, it was not in that speech.
In contrast, to his reaction, this is what Rabbi Brad Hirschfield said on Frontline shortly after 9/11:
I went down, and the experience was unbelievable, because I felt two things simultaneously -- both fully, 100 percent one thing and 100 percent another -- but they were diametrically opposed. There was a piece of me that looked at that site and said, "I'm looking into the face of evil. This is what evil looks like. I don't think in my life I've ever seen it before, and now I have. The response to evil is you fight evil; you destroy evil; and now we will have to go and we will kill and we will destroy until this evil is no more."
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Then I also felt, at the same moment ... "So maybe it ends here. Maybe it's not about fighting any more, and maybe it's about figuring out what we do next that isn't about a violent response, that is about reaching across the kind of chasms that seem to be opening up between human beings -- that I felt inside myself."
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At one point, I sat down on the ground, and I just started to cry. I didn't know what else to do. I sat down and started to cry, because -- thousands of people. I know this sounds crazy because I'm not -- I'm being completely inarticulate -- but that was the feeling. What I saw made me feel exactly like how I sound; there are no words, there are no answers. This was the most death I've ever seen, and all those feelings well up inside you.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/interviews/hirschfield.htmlNo, "Chickens came home to roost," no blaming America for the death of innocent people.