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A few days after 9/11, a Sikh man was shot dead because turbans are stereotypically associated w Muslims. A white supremacist killed two men and wounded a third on Sept 15th. Mosques were vandalised. The number of hate crimes against Muslims increased by 1,600% https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440
There’s a good thread on Reddit about how 9/11 changed life for Muslims: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3i97vv/seriousmuslims_of_reddit_how_much_did_your_life/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Balbir was Sikh and wore a turban. In one of the first hate crime murders following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a man, assuming Balbir was Muslim, shot and killed him as retaliation. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/14/647426417/people-saw-only-a-turban-and-a-beard-reflecting-on-a-post-sept-11-death?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/14/647426417/people-saw-only-a-turban-and-a-beard-reflecting-on-a-post-sept-11-death?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
Patriot Act, “the war on terror”, Guantanamo Bay... “calm” is not the word I would use.
We can honor the fallen while still recognizing the long term impacts it had.
We can honor the fallen while still recognizing the long term impacts it had.
