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Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Guantanamo, bombing of Afghanistan for the next 19 years and counting, special registration program, over 30,000 Muslims deported, families and communities ripped apart... but yeah, no mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment. https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440
I mean... https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-the-u-s-government-used-9-11-to-criminalize-people-of-color
The US response to 9/11 was to launch a War on Terror on countries with majority Muslim populations. Just two days ago, @CostsOfWar released this report, showing that the War on Terror has violently displaced anywhere from 37 million to 51 million people.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf
"One survey found that most Americans thought Iraqi deaths were in the tens of thousands. But our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/15/iraq-death-toll-15-years-after-us-invasion
9/11 was the pretext for George W Bush to bomb the Iraqi city of Fallujah with white phosphorus and depleted uranium in 2004. Fifteen years later, birth defects in Fallujah outstrip those in post-atom bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://twitter.com/FDefects/status/1303965867122794496?s=20
