"To think prior to 9/11 or earlier e.g. bombings of US embassies in Africa and the bombing of USS Cole there was very rare public discourse on the subject"
CGT, so what do you expect when Muslim terrorists started to target men, women and children in airline hijackings, train bombings, bombings at public events and random attacks on individuals.
I lived in Sydney during and prior to 9/11. I don't remember too many kids doing this in the middle of our biggest city:
