Abstract
The wounds inflicted by the September 11 terror attacks remain fresh today, nine years later. Americans have still not fully recov ered from the trauma, nor has the American government been able to conclude the two wars that it launched in response. And while everyone in the country has been negatively affected in some way by the securitization of everyday life that came in the wake of the crisis, the group that has suffered most has been Arab and Muslim Americans. They were targeted as a suspect population sim ply for being Arab and Muslim—the one thing they had in common with the terro rists, who were otherwise all foreigners. Depending on (and even at times regardless of) their citizenship status, they faced depor tation, extraordinary rendition, interroga tion, surveillance, random searches, acts of vandalism, hate crimes and various other forms of discrimination. Singled out and tar geted by both the government and the public, Arab and Muslim communities found them
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