Last week, during a hearing convened by Representative Peter King concerning the ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims, Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, took the stand. Many were struck by his impassioned description of a young paramedic named Salman Hamdani, Â who died at ground zero and was later erroneously singled out as a suspected terrorist.
Salman’s mother, Talat Hamdani, is among the narrators in our forthcoming book of oral histories documenting post-9/11 discrimination, profiling and other injustices. Click here to read an excerpt of her narrative on McSweeneys.net.
