The Aftermath of 911: Do Americans Still Fear Muslims As Terrorists?

The greatest barrier to world peace is fear. Many Americans are still traumatized by the events of September 11, 2001, when four coordinated suicide attacks were carried out against the United States by a political extremist group known as al-Qaeda. The U.S., where a growing immigrant Muslim population was visibly adding to the rapidly increasing numbers of American born Muslim converts, shifted into paranoid fear about Islam, Muslims, and anything related to the religion the mass media had connected to terrorism. Today, on the last day of the HWPL Global Peace Summit held in Seoul South Korea, we are talking to Senegalese born Sheikh Musa Drammeh, now a resident of New York, who lived in New York at the time of the 911 attack. When he saw the effects of the media repeatedly connecting Islam to terrorism, he sprang into action and formed the Muslim Media Corporation, which operates in the U.S. and Senegal and widely circulates publications that promote the positive impact of Islam on our society.