9/11 - Impact on Culture, Literature and Language

[muqawwee123]

Re: 9/11 - Impact on Culture, Literature and Language

@Khalil KhaaN FaaKhta

two personal experiences.

i was returning from India with my handwritten manuscipts of my Dad’s Urdu poetry [written in Urdu scripts, NOT roman] in three volumes and some religious books in Urdu. they checked my bags and asked me questions about those manuscripts and Urdu books. i had to explain them what they were. wasted my 15 minutes doing that.

they probably thought i was carrying literature on how to make a bomb [God forbid].

another time, i was flying domestically to Newfoundland and i wanted to take with me some Indian groceries. the store people packed it in a box and inside the put Arabic Newspapers around the groceries. i had to explain what they were. since i don’t know the Arabic language i had hard time what the news was all about…lol

again i wasted a good 15 minutes doing that.

ah, those ignorant people!

It definitely made certain group of people more suspicious. Like, we discussed arresting of Sikh people, who were considered as Muslim due to beard.