Living under the War on Terror permanently rewired Muslim-American identity.

Evidence

From that Tuesday onward, and the countless days in between, that feeling has swelled in line with the twenty-year-old “war” and evolved into a forlorn companion I have come to know as well as I know myself. In fact, that feeling has become part of who I am—as a Muslim, an American, a scholar, a public intellectual, a son—every dimension of an identity contoured by it since that tragic Tuesday in September more than two decades ago. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 35