He describes a scene where his family was watching video footage after the September, 2001 attacks: "When I saw the video, I was looking at it you know and everyone was smiling and laughing and I was just looking at it. I saw this person jumping out of the building and I didn't think it was funny ... what was going through that person's mind," he said.
"My father said, `What's your problem?' and I said `I don't know. I don't think this is right and it's going to cause a lot of trouble ... you hit so much people who were in that building.'"
Abdurahman said his father responded: "Well they pay taxes and the taxes get guns and guns kill Muslims. We're hitting (the) American economy and there is collateral damage."