Back in September Moaddel, Mansoor, and Hamid Latif. 2006.
"Events and Value Change: The Impact of September 11, 2001 on
the Worldviews of Egyptians and Moroccans." Interdisciplinary
Journal of Research on Religion, 2(5): 1-48. The significance of
a historical event depends largely on the meaning it carries for
the social actors it has the potential to affect. That meaning
is not haphazardly produced but rather is structured by the
nature of the political and cultural context in which the social
actors are embedded. That meaning determines whether and how
individuals and entire societies reexamine their attitudes
toward and beliefs about historically significant issues. We
tested this proposition by examining how the attitudes of
Egyptians and Moroccans were affected by the terrorist act
perpetrated by al-Qa’ida on September 11, 2001, which was
ostensibly carried out not only to avenge the presumed trauma
Muslim nations have suffered because of the American-led
“Jewish-Crusade alliance,” but also to rally the