What Next: What 9/11 Did to My Life

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For Muslim Americans, the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks marks a full generation of routine Islamophobia. In the years that followed, the war on terror wounded the nation’s Muslim communities in ways that still feel fresh today. Guest: Aymann Ismail, staff writer at Slate. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	My colleague, Aimanus Maillil, has always felt different.
0:37.2	All his life.
0:38.6	Even though he grew up in Newark, New Jersey, playing basketball and mixing it up with
0:42.8	the other first generation American kids in his neighborhood, he felt different.
0:47.8	And it's because his Muslim community told him he was different and told him to be
0:52.3	confident in his difference.
0:54.5	It feels like stupid stuff.
0:58.2	Like, well, you guys are Muslims so therefore you do not drink alcohol.
1:03.1	You don't eat pork and you don't curse and that you respect your parents and you don't
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