title: Stigmatized! From 9/11 to Trump and Beyond: An American Muslim Journey
author: Dr. Reza Mansoor
description: Dr. Reza Mansoor is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and practices as a Cardiologist at Hartford Hospital. He completed his medical degree from St. Georges University School of Medicine in 1992. He completed his medical internship at the University of Connecticut in Internal Medicine 1992-1995. He was a Chief Medical Resident at Hartford Hospital from 1995-1996 and received his Cardiology fellowship from the University of Connecticut (Hartford Hospital program) from 1996-1999. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Mansoor is President of the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, Advisory Board Member of Muslim Student Association-CT Council, and Founding President of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut. He is a past president of the Islamic Center of Connecticut and Islamic Council of New England. He is actively involved in the inter-faith community and provides ongoing didactic presentations on Islam. He is First Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of Hartford Seminary and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Covenant Preparatory School in Hartford.
zlib_text: Article in The Indpendent Review September 11, 2002
  
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  We asked 10 leading figures for their thoughts on the events of September 11
  and its ramifications throughout the past year. Here are their responses.
  
  Interviews by Clare Dwyer Hogg, Clare Rudbeck and Tom Phillips
  
  Sue MacGregor, broadcaster
  
  "A few weeks after the attacks, a close friend came to lunch. She is married
  to a Palestinian Arab.
  
  We skirted round the subject for a while, for I sensed, as did she, that her
  views might not be those of most of my other friends. 'Nothing has changed,'
  she said. 'Admit it – what's changed about your life? Nothing at all. Except
  that perhaps you understand why it happened.'
  
  On one level she was right. My stomach had stopped lurching every time I saw a
  plane approach the Post Office tower from my local London park. I had stopped
  what I knew was a shameful thing –
  
  casting suspicious glances at every robed and bearded Muslim man I passed in
  the street . And yet of course the world has radica