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=Muslims after September 11=

//I urge - I know I don't need to tell you all this -but our nation must be mindful that there are thousands of Arab-Americans who live in New York City who love their flag just as much as the three of us do. And we must be mindful that as we seek to win the war that we treat Arab-Americans and Muslims with the respect they deserve. I know that is your attitudes as well. Certainly the attitude of this government, that we should not hold one who is a Muslim responsible for an act of terror. We will hold those who are responsible for the terrorist acts accountable and those who harbor them//
 * Statement from President Bush (September 13th, 2001)**

After that tragic day on 9/11, many people's view of Muslims drastically changed. They viewed them as something dangerous and an easy target for anything that happens to go wrong. Going out is a challenge for many of the Muslim women because they have to wear a chador in public and gets rude stares and sneers coming their way. They can't go to the airport without people thinking that they were going to kill them with bombs. The Muslims are being targeted for something that they were not even associated with.

"//Forty-eight percent of the respondents said that their lives had changed for the worse since 9/11 while 57% reported experiencing an act of bias or discrimination, ranging from disparaging remarks to a hate crime//."

"//Although September 11 backlash violence against individual Arabs and Muslims decreased markedly by November 2001, attacks continued against mosques or houses of worship perceived to be Arab or Muslim. On November 19, 2001, four teenagers burned down the Gobind Sadan, a multi-faith worship center in Oswego, New York, because they believed the worshippers were supporters of Osama Bin Laden. On March 25, 2002, a man who stated to police that he hated Muslims crashed his pickup truck into a mosque in Tallahassee, Florida thirty minutes after evening prayers. On June 11, 2002, in Milipitas, California, vandals broke into a mosque under construction, scrawled derogatory remarks such as, "F- Arabs" and damaged the interior of a construction trailer near the mosque."//

"//Most Muslim places of worship are now monitored by the FBI and their informants to unearth Muslim radicalism. However, radical and hate sermons emanating from satellite channels and talk Radio shows, run by fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, are allowed and are routinely overlooked.//" ([|Link])


 * **New York man tries to run over a Pakistani woman:** Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said. The man, Adam Lang, then followed the woman into a store and threatened to kill her for "destroying my country."
 * A crowd **chases a Muslim woman and her children out of a Wal-mart** at Lamarie, Wyoming
 * A primary Muslim school in New York, The Islamic Institute, receives death threats against its 450 children**.** The caller threatened to "paint the street with the blood of the children."
 * Below is a picture of a vandalized car

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 * Many muslims were treated very differently despite their innocence
 * Securities in airports are considerably much tighter towards Muslims
 * Hate crimes and harassment against Arab Americans, Muslims and others following the attacks