9/11 stories of strength
But 9/11 is not just a story about people, it is the story of a city. Although there was also an attack on the Pentagon in Washington DC, and another hijacked plane that was downed in Pennsylvania, it is the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York that has come to define the events of that day.
Ten years on, the way the world’s most iconic city has dealt with the atrocity shows the human spirit at its most generous. Over the past decade New York has seen many tens of thousands of Muslims join the city’s cultural mix. And yet this is a city where difference and diversity is not just accepted and tolerated, but is celebrated as a defining characteristic. New York’s skyline was indelibly altered by 9/11, but its spirit only grew stronger.