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New York's Muslims reclaim their city after 9/11 backlash

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Then came the backlash -- years of Islamophobia as Americans processed attacks that had killed nearly 3,000 people. There was anger, suspicion and worse. At 19, Dandia experienced a police informant posing as a friend to infiltrate his family home, part of a now-disgraced surveillance effort purportedly seeking to detect Islamic extremism. Today, though, the 33-year-old historian finds a New York transformed: one with its first Muslim mayor, pub…

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New York: Lion Dandia witnessed the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York on television at the home of his immigrant parents from Pakistan, which was on the 8th day, followed by years of Islamophobia in the midst of a climate of anger and suspicion following a shocking event that killed nearly 3,000 people. At the age of 19, Dundia found that a police informant had pretended to be a friend of his infiltrated [...]

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