One Common Goal

Dahlia Mogahed speaks on how 9/11 affected her as a Muslim woman. How she was once treated as a human being, to being regarded as a terrorist and a suspect. She has demonstrated through studies that when people are afraid, they become more accepting of authoritarianism, conformity and prejudice, making us easy to manipulate into thinking that negative actions were in fact reasonable. She comedically addresses that the misconception may indeed have some ground while simultaneously shutting it down, reiterating that Muslims are as normal as the rest of us, engineers, business owners, etc…