Some recount lingering prejudice two decades after terrorist attacks but also improved relations as Islam gains broader presence
By Cameron McWhirter
(WSJ) WATERLOO, Iowa—In the years since 9/11, Saif Bhuiyan said he was questioned rudely by security personnel and officials at airports and elsewhere. On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, someone hurled a water bottle at him.
At the time, Dr. Bhuiyan was in the U.S. as a university student from Bangladesh. Twenty years later, the 42-year-old information-systems professor at the University of Northern Iowa says he still sees perils to being Muslim in America and often treads carefully after a violent event involving Muslims hits the news.
