There is a proposed resolution that BOTH recognizes the tragedy of the Sept. 11 attacks AND calls out the racism and xenophobia targeting members of the Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Sikh communities.
The Sept. 11 attacks, more commonly referred to as 9/11, were four coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by the Islamist al-Qaeda group against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. The incident resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.
Discrimination against Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Sikh communities intensified after the attacks, with nearly 1,000 hate incidents reported in the following month. The government’s subsequent overreaching policing, surveillance and criminalization policies also reportedly resulted in wrongful interrogation, coercion, detention, deportation, arrest and incarceration.
The resolution’s sponsors acknowledged the struggles of the Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Sikh communities while remembering the horrors of 9/11.
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