On September 11th, America experienced something they never thought was possible. America faced the biggest terrorist attack on home soil when four airplanes were hijacked and crashed into one of New York's most crowded areas, and the United States' defense base. These locations include both the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. The men in charge of this operation were part of the Al-Qaeda group and were of Middle Eastern origin. In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Muslim and Arab communities have experienced incidents of strife at the hands of the US government and private citizens as well as from other countries across the world such as France and Australia. The people of the Islamic faith are senselessly harassed on a day to day basis. When traveling, they are given a hard time and interrogated unnecessarily and given a hard time when issuing visas. Due to all this mistreatment, families and the lives of these people are shattered and put in a state of disorder. Also as response to this, Muslims too are beginning act negatively and are beginning to give non-Muslims a taste of the treatment they have experienced. Personally, I do not think that Muslims should go through the discrimination that they face. The terrorist attacks could have been performed by anyone. Due to the actions of a few people of the Islamic religion, all Muslims cannot and should not be stereotyped and they should not be generalized as a whole and be mistreated.
             As a reaction to the September 11th attacks, the US congress passed the USA Patriots Act just six weeks after September 11. The Patriot's Act is an act that expands the government's authority to spy on its own citizens and permits detention and deportation of non-citizens suspected of supporting groups the government considers "terrorists" organizations (Harrington, pg16). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its annual hat...