ABOUT PROVOKED BY SEPTEMBER 11 HATE CRIMES

A year ago on September 11 all Americans were really hurt by the terrorist attack. Within this year a lot of us continued to get hurt but by attacks on each other. These attacks are mostly Muslim hate crimes. A lot of innocent people are getting assaulted, beaten up and even killed just because they are Muslims, and in some cases are not even Arabs.

It hurts too see how Americans are using September 11 to exercise their hate on guiltless people, to make more profit and even to let their children to be brutal. Is it happening because we are all got scared and feel unprotected? Are we becoming the same terrorists as attacked us on September 11? If, yes! Then terrorists have won!

AP. “ American Muslims; Community Lends Its Support After Vandals Strike Mosgue.” The New York Times 3 January 2002, sec. A: 14.

This article reveals that a lot of mosques are getting destroyed or damaged after September 11. In some cases Koran and other religious items were destroyed and no money taken. Muslim community leaders are sure that it was not an act of vandalism but hate crime. Non-Muslim communities have offered a lot of support to w

This article claims that after September 11 people of different race, except those of Middle Eastern descend, became closer. Because all the kinds of suspicions have fallen on Muslims, mainly African Americans and Latinos don’t feel that much tension from police and other citizens as before the attack. Also, after September 11, people who hated police now think of them as heroes.

This article is about a murder of a Muslim storeowner Abdo Ali Ahmed, who came to America 35 years ago. This man was very respected by a lot of people in his neighborhood. In his interview Keith McCormick, one of the Ahmed’s customers said that Ahmed was the nicest person to meat. Ahmed’s nephew was on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11 and has never been found.

In this article three teenagers set on fire a Sikh temple in Polermo. They were charged with arson. However, federal officials were investigating if the fire was a hate crime, because Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims, they wear turbans for religious reasons.

Kreamer, Matthew, and Felicia Cousart Matlosz. “ Hate-Crime Inquiry Urged Muslim Leaders Speak Out On Fatal Shooting of a Reedley Store Owner.” The Fresno Bee 3 October 2001: B1.

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