"Did you watch news coverage of the events that happened on 9/11? "

Many people were actually there, and many died. I didn't have to watch it on TV. I saw the attack in lower NYC in person, until it became impossible to remain.

Regarding jihad, there is nothing heroic, humanitarian, patriotic or redeeming about it. They are ordered by their religion to kill nonbelievers in the name of allah, and are promised a sexual paradise in their imaginary afterlife.