This year the 9/11 anniversary falls on a Friday, which is the Islamic weekday for communal prayers where Muslims gather to hear the kutbah/sermon given by imams at local mosques. It also falls in the Islamic month of Ramadan, the month that the Qur'an was first revealed, which a ritual fast is observed by many Muslims throughout the daylight hours.For many American Muslims this is a day where they not only feel the horrible sense of loss for those who perished that day, but also a time when they are fearful that they will be singled out and blamed for having perpetrated them. It is a time of bad memories of the prejudices that they faced by those who unfairly conflated them with the terrorists because of their religious and/or ethnic backgrounds.
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10/01/2009
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