But 9/11 is the only terrorist attack that is remembered in such a highly public way.

Terrorist attacks have happened for centuries. Bombings have been going on for decades. If you've ever been to London during the eighties you would still remember how people were coached on proper behavior so they might spot a possible bomb or avoid being seen as a possible bomber. Not to mention having to evacuate certain parts of the city because of a bomb-warning.
What about all of these victims? Who remembers them? What about all the Africans that died when US-embassies in Africa were bombed? What about all the victims in Israel and Palestine? The victims of terrorists in Spain and Germany? Great Britain and Ireland? Philipines? South-America? Algeria? Morocco?
Nobody remembers those. Nobody comes up with memorial services and a huge media show for these victims.

9/11 is portrayed as a US-tragedy so people shouldn't be surprised when the rest of the world reacts annoyed, especially those not-Americans who also lost family and friends during these terrorist attacks who don't get mentioned.

It might have been the first time terrorists managed to kill thousands of people with full media-coverage but it wasn't the first time terrorists killed and it most defintely wasn't the last terror attack the world has seen.

No, the point is to remember all the humans who died and don't start running around waving American flags, becoming America's tragedy and shout for revenge. And sorry, but that's the way America comes across right now. Extremely nationalistic and patriotic and nothing like the world community you mentioned.
Now if places like ff.net also closes down on say November 9, or put up banners in remembrance of all the victims of terrorism, in East, West, South and North, I'll rest my case.
Cause then we truely remember the victims without focusing on national tragedies.

So far ff.net never went down, no matter the tragedy. I don't think it even ever crossed their mind to go down until America was hit by such a tragedy. And I think that's what made so many people so, I won't say angry, but questioning the whole actionism.

I think it's time I said something on this avalanche I started. I didn't want to insult the Americans, but I'm also a bit disgruntled that 9/11 is treated like the center of the world. Yes, it was horrible, yes, thousands of people died, and yes, we all aren't as immediately concerned as the ones who either saw it directly or who lost loved ones there.

But the main websites on the net dealing with fan fictions are, actually, American sites. Perhaps due to the fact that, since English is the language of our favorite past-time, above all English-speaking people go to the trouble of lancing web sites and that are, after all, mostly Americans (just statistically speaking). Every other one of these pages either bears a small graphic linked to 9/11, or even more. I think that date (or rather: what happened) hit your nation where it hurts most: in its heart. Other countries are (as sad as that sounds) used to terrorism. Ireland (IRA). Spain (ETA). To a point even Germany (remember the RAF). For Americans, it's a novelty, a new tragedy you haven't encountered before. Yes, you have the right to mourn, the right to warn and to remember. But please, stop going so overboard with all those feelings.

Who remembers the over 100 people who died in the American air raid on that wedding party in Afghanistan? 'Collateral damage' -- I can't even say how much I hate that expression. They were civilians; they were innocents. Who will mourn them publicly in a year's time? No one will, because no one wants to remember.

I can't help but compare to an imaginary catastrophy along the lines of:

A right-wing nationalsocialist group in the US bombs the German Bundestag. Hundreds, thousands of German people die, including a main part of the government. Informations of the BND and MAD (German intelligence agencies) reveal that it was most likely the above-mentioned group, but direct proof can't be obtained. The men in question have already fled the country and returned to the US where, after all, waving swastika flags and greeting each other in the manner of Hitler's SS plus publishing books denying the annihilation of the Jewish race isn't prohibited. The US refuses to extradict said group since proof for their involvement in the bombing isn't convincing. The rest of the German government gets angry and declares war on the US, promising dire retribution if the so-called 'terrorists' aren't extradicted. The US remains firm. Germany goes through with its warning and attacts the US, bombing civilians and killing a large number of its population. The fate of the terrorists, a year later, is still unknown. The US lies in ruins; casualities are swept under the rug. No one else has intervened; more to the contrary, Austria has declared its loyality to Germany and is now willing to help it attack another country since said other country is (possibly) in possession of A-bombs.

Exaggerated? Unfair? Perhaps.

Still, I hope we won't make a similar mistake and vote for Stoiber. I'd rather earn less and be governed by a left-to-the-middle party than by someone whose political standing is too far to the right to be comfortable.

I'll stop now, and hope I won't get totally thrashed for this.

I mourn with thee, the Vulcans say. But the US isn't the center of the world