September 11, 2001 was a horrific lesson, taught with the death of thousands, and the sacrifice of the brave. The horrors of that day were more that an eye opening moment to the reality of homeland security and the need for the cohesive national intelligence community; it opened everyone’s eyes to the ideology of Muslim extremism.
The ideology behind the attacks of that day was born in the minds of Islamic leaders in a part of the world plagued by dictatorship and a disregard for human rights. The Muslim people of this part of the world that fall victim to a strain of Islam that has come to be known as radicalized Islam or extremism were often first victims of a country that lacked an education system and …show more content…
(Ross, Since 9/11 Racism and Islamophobia Remain Intertwined) This is not the only incident where this prejudicial violence fell upon people not members of the target group. On the first Saturday following 9/11, in Mesa, Arizona, a man Sikh man was gunned down at a gas station. Another instance still, was the shooting and killing of six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012. (Deepa, Column: Post-9/11 Discrimination Must