Phenotypically Muslim markers like headscarves triggered fear of violent backlash

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I quickly left the law school as my mind turned to the safety of my mother, who wore the Muslim headscarf. I feared the backlash would be violent. I worried she would be attacked at the large public hospital where she worked. I also worried about my father, whose first name is Mohamed and who speaks with a heavy foreign accent. Would their coworkers accost, or worse, assault, them out of a desire for revenge? Would they be afraid to go to work, to the grocery store, to the mosque? Would we be blamed for these atrocious criminal acts? Our lives in America as invisible minorities were over. We were now Racial Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 50