Before and After

Before and After Sitting in a classroom in the first grade is where the class of 2013 is sitting when one of the most devastating acts of history takes place. It’s a normal day, teachers teaching, everyone working just as any other day. In New York, the city is hustling and bustling as fifty thousand people head into work at the World Trade Center. Muslims and Americans alike are enjoying American freedoms but this was short lived. September 11, 2001 was that one devastating day in American history where millions of lives were changes and American tolerance for Muslims and Muslims tolerance for Americans had a severe drop. Life before September 11, 2001 for Americans and Muslims will only be a memory in a long term battle between the two groups. Before this tragic event, America was becoming more tolerant of the Islam faith. Only in the recent years before September 11, 2001 were Americans becoming more tolerant of this religion. America was based on a Judeo-Christian faith and teaching and America was slowly becoming accepting of this new faith. (1) America is a melting pot for many different kinds of people, mixing new beliefs, ideas, and cultures, and Islam was slowly melting in to normal everyday America. American life was good, walking through airport security was a breeze, and while religion is always a controversy, Americans were tolerant of the growing American-Muslim culture. The first amendment rights were being up held, life before 9/11 was good for the American people, but not perfect by any means, there was still discrimination between the Christian religion and Islam.
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1. Ahmed, Nazeer. "Islam in America – Before 9/11." History of Islam An Encyclopedia of Islamic
History. Los Angeles Times, 9 1998. Web. 12 Dec 2012. <http://historyofislam.com/contents/the-modern-age/islam-in-america-–-before-911/>.

Islam immigrants were not as tolerated as native