New York’s Muslim Community Reflects on Reclaiming Their City 25 Years After 9/11

New York's Muslims reclaim their city 25 years after 9/11 attacks

Asad Dandia was eight when he watched the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on television at his Pakistani-immigrant parents’ home in New York. Then came the backlash — years of Islamophobia as Americans processed attacks that had killed nearly 3,000 people. There was anger, suspicion and worse. At 19, Dandia experienced a police informant posing as a friend to infiltrate his family home, part of a now-disgraced surveillance effort purportedly seeking to detect Islamist extremism. Today, though, the 33-y...

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