Ugur Sahin and his wife, Dr. The Council on American Islamic Relations , a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, documented more than 10, anti-Muslim bias incidents from , and another 6, in The incidents included anti-Muslim hate crimes, discrimination, immigration, travel issues and school bullying. But also at the same time, finding sources of resilience and trying to find ways to gain strength from the experience.
The attacks triggered a wave of reflection about religious identity in the Muslim American community, including among Arab Americans, African Americans and Americans of South Asian descent, according to Amer. And how important is my religion to me? Do I want to present it publicly? Or do I want to keep my religion hidden? After , there were reports in the media of Muslim women removing their headscarves and people shedding visible signs of religiosity. And on the other hand, many Muslims went the other way in terms of trying to represent their faith and trying to get more engagement, more involved in interfaith dialogue.
Once they no longer felt invisible, once they felt the weight of government surveillance and suspicion, they recognized the need to build coalitions with other marginalized communities.
Arabs and Muslims in the United States realized that if they wanted to get support from other Americans in defense of their civil rights, they needed to build stronger ties, says Cainkar, who adds that U. Search Search. Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 12, VOA Africa Listen live. While Americans had a shared sense of anguish after Sept. After the U. George W. Bush, who had become president nine months earlier after a fiercely contested election, saw his job approval rise 35 percentage points in the space of three weeks.
Americans also turned to religion and faith in large numbers. Public esteem rose even for some institutions that usually are not that popular with Americans.
For example, in November , news organizations received record-high ratings for professionalism. Public trust in government, as well as confidence in other institutions, declined throughout the s. With the U. Many Americans were impatient for the Bush administration to give the go-ahead for military action.
Even in the early stages of the U. Throughout the fall of , more Americans said the best way to prevent future terrorism was to take military action abroad rather than build up defenses at home. Initially, the public was confident that the U. Support for the war in Afghanistan continued at a high level for several years to come. Only two-in-ten said it was the wrong decision. The share favoring a speedy troop withdrawal increased over the next few years.
A turning point came in May , when U. Over the next decade, U. Meanwhile, public support for the decision to use force in Afghanistan, which had been widespread at the start of the conflict, declined.
Today, after the tumultuous exit of U. Throughout the contentious, yearlong debate before the U. As with the case with U. Since then, sizable majorities have continued to cite that as a top policy priority.
Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats have consistently ranked terrorism as a top priority over the past two decades, with some exceptions. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have remained more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to say defending the country from future attacks should be a top priority.
In recent years, the partisan gap has grown larger as Democrats began to rank the issue lower relative to other domestic concerns. The only time when concerns were elevated was in February , shortly before the start of the U.
Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard. Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U.
In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention.
Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs. Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell. The Victim Compensation Fund was set to stop accepting claims in December The first memorials to September 11 came in the immediate wake of the attacks, with candlelight vigils and flower tributes at U.
For the first anniversary of the attacks in New York City in , two bright columns of light were shot up into the sky from where the Twin Towers once stood. On clear nights, the beams are visible from over 60 miles away. It consists of two reflecting pools with waterfalls rushing down where the Twin Towers once rose into the sky. The names of all 2, victims are engraved on the bronze panels surrounding the pools, arranged by where individuals were on the day of the attacks, so coworkers and people on the same flight are memorialized together.
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