9/11 Civil Rights Abuse
Columbia Sourcebook, 264-296
*What civil rights abuses did Muslim Americans suffer after 9/11? There were a sample cases in the book that showed what civil rights abuses did Muslim Americans suffer from after 9/11. The first case that was mentioned in the book was on March 21, 2003. A Muslim American family from Palestine origins was victim of property damage when their van was bombed outside their house in Chicago. Another case of civil rights abuses was a woman getting verbally accosted and assaulted by a man who followed her as she was shopping in a New York toy store. There is a case of Portuguese descent man who got batten up by four white men who thought that the was a Middle Eastern. Another case was a man in Texas setting a series of fire at Muslim-Owned convince stores and other businesses in the city. Moreover, women suffered from civil rights abuses after 9/11 from white women. There is a case that mention a Muslim woman and her son were harassed while shopping in Pennsylvania. The white women in the store yelled at the Muslim woman saying that American troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan so that women. In conclusion from reading the rest of the sample cases of civil rights abuses, American …show more content…
Maryati mentions that the timing of the closure and the high-profile arrest that the police made over the three years after the attack demonstrated a pattern on the part of the government. It gave an impression to the people that the government is making progress against terrorism. Furthermore, Maryati mentions that the actions that the government took against Muslims make things worse because Muslims around the world pay attention to Muslims in the United
*What civil rights abuses did Muslim Americans suffer after 9/11? There were a sample cases in the book that showed what civil rights abuses did Muslim Americans suffer from after 9/11. The first case that was mentioned in the book was on March 21, 2003. A Muslim American family from Palestine origins was victim of property damage when their van was bombed outside their house in Chicago. Another case of civil rights abuses was a woman getting verbally accosted and assaulted by a man who followed her as she was shopping in a New York toy store. There is a case of Portuguese descent man who got batten up by four white men who thought that the was a Middle Eastern. Another case was a man in Texas setting a series of fire at Muslim-Owned convince stores and other businesses in the city. Moreover, women suffered from civil rights abuses after 9/11 from white women. There is a case that mention a Muslim woman and her son were harassed while shopping in Pennsylvania. The white women in the store yelled at the Muslim woman saying that American troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan so that women. In conclusion from reading the rest of the sample cases of civil rights abuses, American …show more content…
Maryati mentions that the timing of the closure and the high-profile arrest that the police made over the three years after the attack demonstrated a pattern on the part of the government. It gave an impression to the people that the government is making progress against terrorism. Furthermore, Maryati mentions that the actions that the government took against Muslims make things worse because Muslims around the world pay attention to Muslims in the United