Author Question: For Muslims living in the United States right after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which of the ... (Read 54 times)

brutforce · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

For Muslims living in the United States right after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which of the following best illustrates what they experienced?

a. Americans from all walks of life felt for the Muslim's plight and embraced them like no other time before.
b. there was a division within the Muslim community, with Muslim Arabs on one side and all other Muslims on another.
c. Muslims in the time directly after the attack denounced their religious identities, hoping to not be recognized or noticed.
d. many Muslims reported acts of discrimination, harassment, racial profiling, and assault that they had to endure.

Question 2

In Peek's study of Muslim Americans after 9/11, what was the relationship between young adults' embracement of a Muslim identity and their going off to college?

a. college was a time to learn about new religions and many Muslims rejected their Muslim identity during these years.
b. they encountered so much prejudice and discrimination in college that they found themselves hanging out exclusively with other Muslims.
c. college was a time when they re-discovered their Muslim roots and were more likely to seek out friends who were Muslims.
d. none of the people who Peek interviewed attended a college with a Muslim student organization, so it was unlikely for them to meet others like themselves.