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Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias

Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias

(INDEPENDENT) A car passed, the driver’s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: “Terrorist!”

It was 2001, mere weeks after the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her younger sister were walking to the local mosque from their Brooklyn home.

As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches.

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