|
Brain -> Muslim Victims of September 11th Attack - U.S. Muslims face 9/11 anniversary with anxiety (8/21/2010 12:38:56 AM)
|
I think people on both sides of this issue about the Mosque need to back off and cool their heels.; and stop using this for political purposes.
Some people should be ashamed of themselves fanning flames and using this to get elected. People need to move forward and live in peace otherwise Muslims and Christians will forever be at each other’s throats.
Muslim Victims of September 11th Attack
Thousands of innocent lives were lost on September 11, 2001, and our hearts and prayers go out to their families and loved ones. For several hundred of the victims of 9/11, grief and sorrow has been compounded by constant suspicion, bias, hatred, and attacks on the faith they hold dear.
Imagine being the family of Salman Hamdani. The 23-year-old New York City police cadet was a part-time ambulance driver, incoming medical student, and devout Muslim. When he disappeared on September 11, law enforcement officials came to his family, seeking him for questioning in relation to the terrorist attacks. They allegedly believed he was somehow involved. His whereabouts were undetermined for over six months, until his remains were finally identified. He was found near the North Tower, with his EMT medical bag beside him, presumably doing everything he could to help those in need. His family could finally rest, knowing that he died the hero they always knew him to be.
Or imagine being Baraheen Ashrafi, nine months pregnant with her second child. Her husband, Mohammad Chowdhury, was a waiter at Windows of the World restaurant, on the top floors of Tower One. The morning of September 11, they prayed salaat-l-fajr (the pre-dawn prayer) together, and he went off to work. She never saw him again. Their son, Farqad, was born 48 hours after the attacks -- one of the first 9/11 orphans to be born. In an interview with CTV Canada, she relates that in the months to follow, she mourned for her husband and endured the hostility of some ignorant people around her. "When they saw me ... I'm wearing a scarf. There is a hate look."
http://islam.about.com/blvictims.htm
U.S. Muslims face 9/11 anniversary with anxiety
The spectre of war with Iraq and the looming Sept. 11 anniversary seems to have rekindled a distrust in the U.S. of all things Arab and Muslim -- and it's Muslim-Americans who are feeling the backlash as fear and suspicion once again turn into intolerance.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/story/20020907/muslims_sept_11_anniversary_020907/
|
|
|
|
