“It was never an option for me to take off my hijab and run, and that should never be something…
Unveiling decisions and narratives in post-9/11 America
9/11
11 years after 9/11
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, the Social Science Research Council invited a wide range of leading social…
Backlash against Muslims?
At The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf attempts to prove wrong writers, political commentators, and politicians who claim that post-9/11 Islamophobia is a media-conceived, unsubstantiated…
Muslims and the Republican party
Nona Willis Aronowitz, at GOOD, discusses the impact that Republican, anti-Islamic rhetoric has had on Muslim voters.
Remembering differently
In the ten years since 2001, every September has brought with it calls to remember the attacks of September 11.…
9/11 chronomania
Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a…
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, commentators trying to analyze Afghan support for Al-Qaeda put a great deal of…
Interfaith groups blossom after 9/11
For some Americans, the response to the religious fears created by 9/11 was increased hatred of difference, particularly of Islam…
Banning Shari‘a
Ten years after 9/11, Americans cope with insecurity in their day-to-day welfare at home, while contending with continued warnings of…