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  • We are Americans too, insist US Muslims (Huh?)

    09/03/2006 7:00:27 PM PDT · by voletti · 163 replies · 2,309+ views
    Times of India ^ | 9/3/06 | reuters
    WASHINGTON: Ihsan Saadeddin is proud to be an American. But he's tired of having to prove it just because he's a Muslim too. The Palestinian grocery store owner in Phoenix has called the United States home for 25 years and feels as American as the next guy. He met his wife in Arizona, sent his three children to public school and has a weakness for McDonald's. But Saadeddin says the September 11 attacks were a tragic watershed which turned US Muslims from ordinary citizens into objects of suspicion and discrimination overnight. He believes it is why he was questioned at...