September 11, 2001 was an epic tragedy that will not and should not be forgotten, but it is not the most important September 11th in American history. Not even close. September 11, 1789, is a defining moment in American and by extension world history that shaped our world in positive and profound ways and will for all time in ways that no tragedy ever could.
Over recent quarters, estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) have indicated rises in theft. While the latest estimate showed no significant change in the last year, theft showed a 13% increase compared with the year ending March 2017. Despite this increase, estimates of theft remain much lower than 20 years ago.
I joined the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in February 2007. Among my external academic appointments, I have been a senior research fellow in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand since January 2007, an Editor (since 2013) of the South African Journal on Human Rights (from Feb 2017- Feb 2019 Editor-in-Chief) and a visiting.
Driving these developments was the enormous growth in post-war pilgrimages. In the 1950s the numbers were already surpassing the best years of the 1920s, with over half a million Hajjis in 1958. At the end of the 1960s the total had reached nearly a million, of whom close to half were non-Saudis. And as the century drew to a close the figures.