This Muslim American life

dispatches from the War on Terror

309 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4798-3684-0
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OCLC Number:
906010876

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"Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake 'Mustafa Bayoumi' was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an 'anti-American, pro-Islam' agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafés. …

2 editions

Subjects

  • War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
  • Muslims in popular culture
  • Social aspects
  • Civil rights
  • Muslims
  • Ethnic relations
  • Public opinion
  • Social conditions
  • Biography
  • War on Terrorism (2001-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01754980

Places

  • United States