Twenty years and 600 miles from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the nation's largest Arab Muslim community is still quietly reeling from the 2001 terror attacks and a psychological blow dealt to Islamic American identity.
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports from Dearborn, Michigan, as the city's large Muslim American population reflects on anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.DEARBORN, Mich.
"People associate people who look like us with an event that we didn't create," said Rima Imad Fadlallah, a Michigan native and co-host of the "Ours is a community that continues to be 'otherized,'" said Petra Alsoofy, who studies public opinion of Islam with the, a nonprofit group created in Michigan in 2001 to help combat misconceptions about Islam.
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