Islam and Muslims in the Post-9/11 America launched
American Muslim Voice (AMV) held a sign-in for Abdus Sattar Ghazali's latest book - Islam & Muslims in the Post-9/11 America. The event was held on March 10, 2013 at the Chandni Restaurant in Fremont/Newark. 
Dr. Waheed Siqqidi, a prominent community leader, chaired the event.
Samina Sundas, Founding Executive Director of American Muslim Voice, was MC. Among those who spoke at the sign-in included:
Khalid Saeed, AMV President and Founder of Woodland Mosque; Dr. Jesse Ortiz, Woodland Community College Professor & President of Latino Community of Yolo County and Naeem Syed, Social activist from Sacramento.
Other speakers were:Tashie Zaheer, Founding President of Urdu Academy of North America; Prof. Emeritus Dr. Abdul Jabbar; Prof. Arthur Scott, Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Dominican University of California.
Sagheer Ahmed read comments written by Dr Agha Saeed, a scholar and Coordinator of the California Civil Rights Alliance.
Helma Murtaza read a message from CA Assemblyman Bill Quirk.
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director for the CAIR San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (http://ca.cair.com), read a letter from Craig Wiesner, founder of Reach and Teach (http://www.reachandteach.com).
Here are reviews about the book:
Dr. Abdul Jabbar: Abdus Sattar Ghazali’s Islam and Muslims in the Post-9/11 America is a monumental source book on a topic that is of critical importance not only to Muslims but to all Americans who care for their civil liberties and constitutional rights. Meticulous attention to facts, painstaking research, and careful documentation make this book a compelling presentation. The book’s comprehensive coverage of the topic is evident from its table of contents that lists 9 chapters and 6 appendices. The chapters relate to issues of civil rights, Islamophobia, campaign against Muslim charities, Muslims facing inquisition, institutionalized profiling, stereotyping, hate crimes, silencing of Muslim voices, and Muslims’ response to the post-9/11 challenges. The author has framed the message of his book , using a clear, easily-to-follow, and inviting format. The “Preface” points to the steady “erosion of the fundamental rights and civil liberties, all in the name of national security” in the wake of 9-11 (i). It ends with a compelling analogy: “It will not be too much to say that after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast were imprisoned in 10 relocation camps in the United States. But after 9/11, the whole country is converted into a virtual detention camp for the Muslims in America by abridging their civil rights” (ii) Read More
Arthur Scott: Race as a political tool has always been prominent strategy in the American landscape as exemplified by Black segregation and Jim Crow, by the “Yellow Scare” leading to Chinese Exclusion and the Gentleman’s Agreement which limited the number of Japanese entering the country leading to Japanese internment during the World War II. Similarly throughout the twentieth century hysterical outburst against communism raised its head taking the form of the “Red Scare” first with the Palmer Raids in 1920, reaching its apotheosis under Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings in the 1950’s in which thousands of Americans were terrorized and had their civil liberties compromised. Today the Far Right has gone ballistic over gun control seeing in it a governmental/Obama conspiracy to disarm “White America” and to marginalize the Second Amendment. It is no coincidence that these episodes are described in terms of color, for color touches on a deep aspect of the American psychic racism, which is endemic in the American culture going back to first encounters with the indigenous peoples who were described by the Anglo Puritan settlers as “Red.” Abdus Sattar Ghazali, a noted Pakistani and Middle East scholar, in his just published book - Islam & Muslims In The Post- 9/11 Era - discusses in great detail the impact of the “Green Terror” on the civil liberties of the seven million Muslims, who comprise the American Islamic community, since 9/11. Read More
Tashie Zaeer: In his familiar and unique style, Mr. Ghazali has told a story of how an unforeseen and an unexpected incident changed the thinking of so many, so quickly, so drastically and how that change impacted the lives of one American Community, the American Muslims. Mr. Ghazali has called it a “source book” and that it is indeed. In this book he has chronicled not only the details of what happened but also what transpired in the aftermath of 9/11. Mr. Ghazali has extensively written about the erosion of “Civil Rights” under the administration of George W. Bush and has also talked about the bigoted Politicians, Radio and TV talk show hosts, the opportunistic campaigns of “Islamophobics”, and the right wing extremists. Read More
Dr. Jesse Ortiz: Sattar Ghazali does an excellent job in the nine chapters of defining who the Muslim population is and the issues they face daily in America. The book does an excellent job in looking at demographic data and immigration to the United States. The very important Chapter Two titled Islamophobia provides an in-depth view of how a conservative political base and the mass media continues to provide damaging false information against Muslims with the primary role of spreading hatred or for the sake of political gain. The book provides insight of defining those who lack understanding of the Muslim faith. Adding to the negativity is the stereotyping that comes in the media that is referred to in Chapter Six. Read More
A review by Dr. Agha Saeed: Even a cursory look at this book, even at its table of contents, reveals and documents systematic oppression of Muslim Americans by the extremist elements in the US state and civil society. For example, on June 14, 2006 Judge John Gleeson had ruled in Turkmen v. Ashcroft that the US has the right "to detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation?" To date that fascist approach remains in place. Read More
Ghazali Describes the Post- 9/11 American Muslim Experience
By A.H. Cemendtaur: Two days after veteran journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali’s book ‘Islam & Muslims in Post 9/11 America’ was promoted through a book review event in Newark, an appeal filed by the lawyers of Hamid Hayat got rejected by the federal appeals court, upholding Hayat’s 24-year prison sentence -- the underlying premise of Ghazali’s book got highlighted even further: In Post 9-11 US, the state sees its Muslim citizens as the enemy within and is ready to err on the side of wrongful incarceration of Muslim Americans based solely on suspicion. Read More
A message from CA Assembly member Bill Quirk
A comment by Khalid Saeed, National President of American Muslim Voice
A comment by Craig Wiesner, founder of Reach and Teach
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