"In the Chicago area, after 9/11, we saw corrections officers and friends on motorcycles take down an Arab American cab driver, beat him up saying, 'This is what you get, you mass murderer...'





one of them was a south side grocery store owned by an Arab American, and the attacker said, 'I'm going to blow up the store the same way the World Trade Center was blown up.'" (source)








Americans were forcing fellow Americans to live in a country filled with anger and hate. They were afraid of being profiled, becoming criminal suspects and being wrongly persecuted and abused.