AAPTIS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arab Americans, 6 Years
12 May 2016
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Discrimination and massacres against the innocent: both muslims and non-muslims. I realize that arabs have always faced discrimination, even before 9/11, just as any other race, but i believe the concept of. Islamaphobia was popularly instilled in the hearts of people on the day the twin towers came tumbling down. According to the reading, daily life of arab americans in the 21st century, it is stated that, 80% of arab americans reported that they had contributed to a victims" fund, donated blood, or displayed the american flag . I find it incredulous that just because 19 ill-minded religiously flawed men attacked and killed thousands of americans, victims of which many were. Arab, that not only one entire race, but numerous other races became classified as terrorists. Especially if many of the first responders to the 9/11 attack were arabs and muslims like ahmed nasser (daily life of arab ).
