Life for Muslim, Arab and Sikh Americans has never been the same.
Julia Craven Staff Reporter,
WASHINGTON -- Simran Jeet Singh was in high school at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He remembers that Sikh and Muslim friends who lived in New York, Boston and elsewhere in the U.S. soon started receiving threats as though they were the enemy.
In 2001, at least 500 anti-Muslim hate crimes were recorded by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. In the years since, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes has remained roughly five times higher than before the Twin Towers fell.
A video about the "Tribute in Light" from the New York Times.Tonight's other top story comes from Mecca, which is preparing for the annual hajj (there is mobile phone video of the collapse in the article, which is from The Guardian):
107 people killed as crane crashes on to Mecca’s Grand Mosque Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority says more than 200 injured in preparations for annual hajj pilgrimageAt least 107 people were killed and 238 more were injured when a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque during storms in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Friday, the Saudi Arabian government has said.
The director general of the country’s civil defence authority, Suleiman al-Amr, said high winds caused the disaster.
A gallery of photographs of the event can be found in the Egyptian Al Ahram (ahramonline).More international news below the folded universe. Post links to your own interesting stories in the comments.