Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Nearly five years after 9/11, members of the growing American Muslim society carry on wrestling with their place in modern American society.
For most of them, three million to nine million, depending on who's counting, now life is not the same as it was before.
Hatem Bazian, a Jordanian-born Palestinian is one who teaches about Islam at the University of California at Berkeley, has studied the American Muslim population, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area.
HATEM BAZIAN, University Of California, and Berkeley: Since 9/11, I think the society is fundamentally under -- feels under siege. They're in a constant state of what I consider to be practical internment, in the sense that the society feels lured in its own mind.
It's unable to fully be a full member of the American society. I think it to be that they'ee Americans on probation. They're guilty, that they have to establish themselves innocent. They're guilty of having the same religion as those who undertaken the attacks of 9/11.
For most of them, three million to nine million, depending on who's counting, now life is not the same as it was before.
Hatem Bazian, a Jordanian-born Palestinian is one who teaches about Islam at the University of California at Berkeley, has studied the American Muslim population, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area.
HATEM BAZIAN, University Of California, and Berkeley: Since 9/11, I think the society is fundamentally under -- feels under siege. They're in a constant state of what I consider to be practical internment, in the sense that the society feels lured in its own mind.
It's unable to fully be a full member of the American society. I think it to be that they'ee Americans on probation. They're guilty, that they have to establish themselves innocent. They're guilty of having the same religion as those who undertaken the attacks of 9/11.
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