Shadee Elmasry – Islam in USA Before 911
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I'm a convert to Islam. I converted in
2,001. I would say 6 months before 9:11.
I just thank Allah that I went through
all of that before. Before. So I didn't
have the pressure and the tension that came
into the media. It's not the same anybody
who has not seen before and after 9:11
will not understand the difference, the difference
in in really between
where the discourse was at. Islam was just
another kind of another religion.
Just to give context to people,
before 911,
it's very likely, highly likely, a person lived
their whole life just hearing the word Islam
and not actually not hearing anything else. Anytime
that Islam was in the news, everyone knew
about it. And usually, it was a small
segment at Hajj, a small segment about the
local mosque, fasting Ramadan.
It was like a meaningless segment, essentially. There
was non news right after 911.
Thrust in, you're the villain,
and and civilizational at the civilizational level. Your
people are the villain.