# Muslim Dopers in Western countries: Do you feel safe?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-dopers-in-western-countries-do-you-feel-safe/737535 "2015-11-14T06:38:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-dopers-in-western-countries-do-you-feel-safe/737535/50 "2015-11-15T23:27:07Z")

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> [@Hail\_Ants](#):
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> Why would you think that? Because of all the hate crimes and violence against muslims after 9/11? Oh wait, that’s right, _ **there wasn’t any!!!** _

Really?

Because in my neighborhood a local restaurant owner, a man who had engaged in extensive fund raising for those injured by 9/11, and the families of those killed, who proudly displayed an American flag every day of the year, who had been a US citizen for 30 years and raised his family here, was gunned down in cold blood in 2002 for the “crime” of being a Muslim. Shot dead in his restaurant, in front of his family, by a bigot.

Granted the plural of anecdote is not data, but your assertion that no such thing happened is negated by the death of someone I knew for several years. Not to mention all the well documented other reports of the same. I still miss the man, who had built a halal restaurant to serve the local Muslim community but who also took equal pains to make _everyone_ feel welcome there. I’m happy to say his sons carry on his legacy, but they still miss their father every day.

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