The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was a defining moment in the lives of Muslim Americans.
CHICAGO (WLS) — Salman Azam grew up in Staten Island in New York City. He said 9/11 was a defining moment in his life. »I went to funerals for friends’ parents who worked in the World Trade Center or who were firefighters or police officers, it was a very emotional time, » he recalled. Not only as an American but also as a Muslim. »I walked outside the mosque one day. And I remember a truck driving by telling me ‘go back to where you came from.’ And I’m thinking to myself I was born in Brooklyn. I’m just as American as anyone of you, » Azam said. Muslims and people of Arab and South Asian descent in America also faced racial profiling by law enforcement.
