Working against the Authorization for Use of Military Force then and now
On Sept. 11, 2001, an attack on U.S. soil stunned the world. For many people, the United States’ safety and place in the world had never felt so precarious. In the following days and years, Congress passed reactive policies, which gave the president the authority to use military force and increased domestic surveillance.
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As a Muslim woman who wears a niqab (face veil) in America, I’m thankful that I haven’t had to experience a traumatic incident of Islamophobia, unlike most of my friends.
Hafsa Siddiqui is a 5th Grade Reading and Social Studies teacher on the northside of Chicago and a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the co-author of the Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Schools curriculum.