9/11 conspiracy theories: ‘The truth is people will do evil things in the name of religion’

This is an almost flippant attitude to the events and a belief that this was staged so western powers could invade countries in the Middle East.

By sharing these ridiculous views we are discounting the lives of the people who died and were injured.

Of course, there is evidence that the attack was used to take part in illegal wars in Iraq. The past 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan was diabolical if nothing else and failure for Western foreign policy and so called ‘nation-building’.

But the idea the whole attack was self-inflicted is beyond far-fetched. Yet, the belief is still out there and it seems children who were not born then are repeating the words of their parents.

Nowadays it is far easier to gain information and you can click link after link until you find something you agree with.

Some of these theories tend to come from people who will not and never have accepted that Muslims will carry out such a shocking attack. They must have been coerced in some way or they must have been ‘forced’ to do this.

Even at the time, I recollect we had people who could not believe that something like could happen as the perpetrators were ‘Muslim’. This was just another ploy and tactic to ‘give Muslims a bad name’.

My belief is once you commit a crime of such a nature you can no longer be classed a Muslim or of any religion. No matter how many people call it martyrdom. It is murder pure and simple.

Challenging these narratives is not easy as you become embroiled in the issue of ‘loyalty’. If one is sat in a room full of people who are intent on believing that this crime did not happen in the way it has been reported saying the obvious can be make you sound almost stupid.

Some feel almost obliged to defend the actions of someone else who follows the same belief. How could this possibly happen? What did they have to gain? Some of us do it automatically, rather than face the hard and brutal fact that sometimes ‘religious people can be evil’. And they follow the same religion as me.

In the same manner, democracies and nations also carry out murder in the name of ‘freedom’. History has shown us it happens and it will happen again in the future.

It is a defence system that allows us then to justify one’s own belief. I have listened to a whole host of nonsense theories after almost every suicide attack where the criminal was a Muslim.

If nothing else one must challenge these views or nothing changes.