NEW YORK: Asad Dandia was eight when he watched the September 11, 2001, attacks on television at his parents’ home in New York.
Then came the backlash — years of Islamophobia as Americans processed attacks that had killed nearly 3,000 people.
There was anger, suspicion and worse.
At 19, the son of Pakistani immigrants experienced a police informant posing as a friend to infiltrate his family home, part of a now-disgraced surveillance effort purportedly seeking to detect Islamic extremism.
Muslim community gains visibility with political power, leaders, mosques as it sheds spectre of Sept 11 attacks
