Farah Pandith

But obviously 9-11 created this kind of, I guess, this normal baseline level of fever pitch around immigration, around kind of like protecting our country, protecting our borders, build the wall, all this kind of really insane rhetoric that never was around that much or was never normalized or was seen as a fringe insane idea has now become so, I guess, the snowball has been kind of pushed more and more and more downhill to the point where it's like, fuck, this is like an unavoidable juggernaut that we're all getting crushed under.

So I just wanted to quote someone, Farah Pandith, who's a senior fellow at Harvard, on the impact of what it had to kind of Muslims, basically.

The impact of 24 hours, seven days a week scrutiny on the global Muslim population can't be dismissed.

The attacks change the dynamics of ordinary life.