Brussels airport in Belgium was repeatedly bombed by terrorists, leaving at least 34 dead and 180 injured Tuesday morning with ISIS claiming responsibility for the attack. I heard about this attack while reading the news, and like everyone else, I think the attack was just terrible. However, people immediately began taking it too far, dubbing it “Belgium’s 9/11”.

Don’t get me wrong, I completely agree that this attack was an awful tragedy. I also agree that we must do everything we can to hunt down the scumbags who planned this attack and prevent future attacks like this from happening anywhere else in the world. However, comparing this attack to 9/11 is simply insensitive.

September 11, 2001 is one of the worst days that our world has ever faced. Thousands of people died that day, and people are still facing health problems from it to this day.

Does it seem right to compare an attack that killed 2,996 people to one that killed 34? The Belgium attack was awful, but it was no 9/11.

How would the families and loved ones of the victims of 9/11 feel to see that this is what their suffering has been reduced to? Probably not so good. 9/11 remains the worst and most deadly terror attack in the world to this day, and Belgium’s grand total of 34 people is nowhere even close to that.

I’ll say it again: the Belgium attack was horrible. It is yet another testament to how screwed up the world that we live in has really become. There is nothing wrong with calling this attack exactly what it is; a horrible tragedy, but not 9/11.