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This documentary brought a different side to the aftermath of 9/11. Days after the tragedy, someone who practiced the Sikh religion was murdered because he looked like the enemy. He was wearing a turban. All the United States were afraid of another attack, so the police started to look for people that look like the enemy and restraint them so they could prove that they were terrorists.
In the United States, there are a majority of people who are Christian, or other kinds of Christianity. In their beliefs, people who are not of their religion would perish in hell. So when they see people from another religion, they think they are evil, or the enemy. In the United States, the law says that you can believe any religion you want. But people at the time were too concerned with the war that they would do anything to oppress people that resemble a terrorist.
This was totally unacceptable, but the US has a history of segregating people when at war.
It really saddens me to know that so many innocent people were profiled as the enemy at the time. That was when we saw what was wrong with our society when dealing with religious oppression. This country is for everyone that wants to prosper and help each other, not for hating.
It is a very depressing thing to think that people were categorized during an age where we are supposed to be becoming more tolerant. The problem I think it is with the profiling is that it is a security issue which people in America seem to be more afraid of fear itself than the possibility of a terrorist attack. The problem with America every since the cold war ended, we have been searching for a common enemy and common friend to keep us feeling related on a national level. America now discriminates against Arabic looking individuals and we all listen to music celebrating the worth of an imaginary thing called the dollar.
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