hyphenated twentysomething

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims' Travel

courtesy of NY Times

Azhar Usman [pictured above], a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard, says he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in midsentence and the look in the eyes of his fellow passengers says, "We're all going to die!"

Here's the whole article (free subscription may be required) from today's NY Times regarding the continued terror fears forcing many Muslim-Americans to avoid traveling as much as possible.

posted by payal @ 9:54 AM

Our mission with the blog is not simply to express our thoughts as proud hyphenated Americans, but also to help us navigate through the real world, as we will be skimming the surface of adulthood for the next few years. Essentially, it is an open medium for our ideas, criticisms, feelings, thoughts, and opinions relating to our identities, our South Asian culture, our education, our careers, our future, our dreams, and the world around us. We invite you to join us in this journey, we like to call the twentysomething years and take part in our discussions.