#  American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong? 

 





September 05, 2010

 

 

Author: Laurie Goodstein

Source: The New York Times

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/us/06muslims.html?\_r=2&hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/us/06muslims.html?_r=2&hp)

For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more successful and assimilated than Muslims in Europe.

Now, many of those same Muslims say that all of those years of work are being rapidly undone by the fierce opposition to a Muslim cultural center near ground zero that has unleashed a torrent of anti-Muslim sentiments and a spate of vandalism. The knifing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City has also alarmed many American Muslims.



 

 

 



 

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