30 Heartbreaking Stories That Show How The Lives Of US Muslims Changed After 9/11

Ignorance is easier than empathy obviously.

People should always stand up for each other, and especially marginalised people should stick together instead of participating in on the discrimination

My heart breaks for much a needless and senseless loss. I'm so sorry you had to grow up without your mum.

Good for you. I hope they’re still friends.

That's just like how if gun violence is perpetrated by a white it's a mass shooting while if the exact same act is committed by a black or Hispanic it's gang violence..

That sounds horrific, children should never be punished like this

That's very sad, the same happened during WWII with Adolf, the royal family changed its name to Windsor to be less German sounding and for a while German shepherds were called Shepard dogs. None of that should be important, but it matters to people.

No not even the same religion. The ignorance.

White people think all brown Asians are Muslim, and that Muslim is a race but its not, and ignorance like that just breed more hate

This does not sound trivial at all.

I am so sorry for your family's pain, these posts just made me cry.

Not trivial.

I'm sorry you and your family had to go through this.

I apologize for the past actions of my country

this IS NOT trivial. it was at #10 when i read it. it was the first one that brought me to tears.

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some of the jewish kids in Hebron back in 1929 were also 7 when a homicidal flash mob of bloodthirsty muslims kicked their doors down, raped and murdered their mothers and sisters and proceeded to kill and vandalize everything in sight. Several hundred innocent people were killed in only a few hours during the frenzy

This is so heartbreaking, that kind, empathetic people like this are punished just because of their religion

Sikhs are not Muslims. They’re Sikhs. But ignorant people, as always, tend to clump certain types of people together based on appearance. In their pea brains, wearing a turban automatically equates with being a terrorist, which is absolutely not true. Neither is the opinion that all Muslims are terrorists, which I know from experience is not true. Much of this false information is perpetuated by warmongering politicians and the mainstream media that reports on them. It needs to stop. We need to stop.

I'm really sorry. But as a German I can tell you that we have been doing that for 70 years. And none of my relatives were involved in the genocide

This is both heartbreaking and disgusting. That family sound like they were angels with hearts of gold and some $&^@^÷&€ who have probably never done anything in their useless lives to help others chased them out. I honestly hope that karma sees those guilty in the gutter with no one offering them help and the Sikh family went on to something better

I'm usually against violence, I'd have done the same if they badmouthed my dad

Ah, yes. The old "All muslims are evil, except the ones I know." It baffles me how ofter this happens.

Who the f beats up a child???

"Teachers never did anything".... horrendous cowards that they were. For the sake of all deities... she was a *kid*, and was deserving of protection.

So, you should tell him that white man should be banned from world because a lot of them rapes, attack schools and kill childs, etc. This is so ridiculous.

If it makes you feel any better, a bit of the same happened with the girl's name "Isis" recently, at least it did in The Netherlands.

In jr high I was told I would go to hell when I die for not being catholic. That was in the 1950 s, I'm still not catholic. I'm going to hell.

In my personal experience, I've found that more black people who I worked with were the most anti-Muslim / anti-Arab. I was shocked, considering what they've experienced in life.

Dave G. Do you aware what Israel do to Palestinian from 1948 until now? Do you really need to compare the hebron with everything? What a jerk Jewish

Fear can lead to hatred, that and stupidity

Teacher should’ve been reprimanded, at the very least, for that.

Alex Harris, don't be so quick posting inane comments, they make you seem very, very young and very shallow. I am absolutely certain that you can participate in a much more constructive manner and I promise you that many of us here will welcome your more sincere comments. How would it make you feel if someone threw a brick at your own grandma? I'd be mad as hell.

The fact that you'd deprive your child of a friend says everything about these "parents" before you look at all the other inherent wrongs

:(

Do you mean your ex -boyfriend?

I read about adult Muslims being beaten and even killed after 9/11 but I didn’t think how awful this must have been for the children. Here it is 18 years later and I’m just now learning of this. To all the children who suffered from 9/11, both from parents dying in the attack and those attacked afterwards, please accept my apologies for my ignorance.

How ironic the concentration camp reference didn't bring to mind when a so-called "Christian" ordered the deaths of 12 million people.

So sad :c

Notice how you now become a n****r when your hated?

that was for Alex Harris

What once was an asset (speaking a second language), now becomes a liability

I started to think that they already hate Muslims from the beginning, but after September 11th, they got the chances to really show it.

Surely he forgot how black people were treated back then.

Feeling is awful. But I must say,it happened to me and I am visibly white,european girl and was pregnant at the time. Chose me from all of the other passengers and checked me again (luggage,metal check with hand sensor and hands swabbing). Bad feeling...

This is bad but it isn't the worst that could happen, and (I'm sorry for saying this) could have taken some pressure off your family by the other racists thinking you are patriotic (I'm so sorry if I offended anyone and if you think I'm wrong please reply)