"Shock and Awe" - is what got us into war for 20 years

We Remember; The Attack:

A Silent War 9/11/01

Lesson Plan #94

Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland, as Joy

Date: 06/27/2020

Overview & Purpose

We remember what we were all doing at this event much like the assination of President John F. Kennedy. People died because we failed to answer a threat attack and it was minimized by the Bush Administration and then hyperbolic language was used and it made Afghanistan upset that we would say such a thing like “Shock and Awe” as it was totally inappropriate language to use for the number of people we lost.

September 11, 2019, or Patriot Day, marks the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. soil. This curated collection of 9/11 lesson plans, resources, and activities gives teachers a variety of options for teaching about 9/11. From examining the events of 9/11, to discussing American values, and connecting 9/11 to the Constitution, this list of resources has several options for teachers to cover the topics surrounding 9-11-2001.

This assignment has students explain how hard it is to explain history when there are multiple perspectives involved, using the September 11 attacks as an example. They look at 5 perspectives on 9-11 (US Government, Boat Captains that evacuated Manhattan, survivors from the Twin Towers, Osama Bin Laden, and Americans who committed hate crimes after the attacks) and learn a structure for writing an organized paragraph.

Remember and Learn from 9/11

In addition to accessing these free resources, be sure to register for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum's Webinar: Anniversary in the Schools. The webinar is available on demand, beginning September 11, at 8 a.m. EDT.

Source: https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/september-11-9-11-attacks-assignment-254179

Education Standards

1. Reflection Skills

2. Problem Solving Skills

3. Research Skills

Objectives

1. Become Educated on the 9/01/01 Event with a detailed what happened by minutes each part that affected american lives

2. What do you feel caused the towers to fall after your research?

3. Who dropped the ball to make something happen with this event?

Materials Needed

1. https://sharemylesson.com/collections/9-11-lesson-plans-and-resources

2. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/60-words

3. https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/september-11-9-11-attacks-assignment-254179

For Officer Captain Justin VanAnderland, Young Adult

1. The Commission Report: Skim 500 Pages to write a Presentation

https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

5. file:///C:/Users/PIClient.DELL_3420_AIO/Downloads/Commemorating%20911%209-12.pdf

6. https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_hone_3_secrets_of_resilient_people?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

7.

https://www.ted.com/talks/bhakti_sharma_what_open_water_swimming_taught_me_about_resilience?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Verification

Steps to check for student understanding

1. Discuss the 60 Word and write a response

2. Find YouTube Videos on 9/11/01 and have a large group discussion

3. What do you feel caused the attacks with your personal research?

4. Write a compare and contrast to the ted talk and the 60 Word Talk

Activity

Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson

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The September 11 Attacks: How is History Ambiguous?

Historical Context

September 11, 2001 is one of the most talked about days in United States history. It is a day that almost all Americans know of, but ironically, it is often very misunderstood by most Americans. Many Americans were quick to form judgments at the time and many of those judgments have continued into the present. Most Americans did not question all of the forces that contributed to the events of that day. With this lack of questioning came a lack of understanding. Adding to this problem, much of the news and history published about 9/11 leaves out many important perspectives and views of 9/11. These limitations highlight the fact that history is ambiguous.

Your Task

Use 9/11 as an example to show how hard it is to explain history because multiple sides tell different perspectives on the story. Write an essay explaining the September 11, 2001 attacks from 5 different perspectives – the U.S. Government, boat captains, World Trade Center survivors, Al Qaeda, and Americans who committed hate crimes after 9/11.

Guidelines

Your introduction must summarize the 9/11 attacks, have a thesis statement that explains why history is ambiguous because of multiple perspectives, and then explain the 5 perspectives that help explain the 9/11 attacks. Your body paragraphs must use the THIED paragraph format to explain each perspective on 9/11, introduce the source(s), and use evidence from the source(s) provided to discuss proof of the perspective. Your conclusion should explain how the 9/11 attacks best show the strengths and weaknesses of explaining history when there are multiple perspectives involved.

Sources

· Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Anti-Muslim Incidents since September 11, 2001”

· History.com’s “Timeline and Death Toll of the Terrorist Attacks”

· National Geographic’s Inside 9/11: “Zero Hour”

· Eddie Rosenstein’s “Boatlift”

· Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America”

· Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon’s 9/11 Commission Report: A Graphic Adaptation (pages 26-29)

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How to Write a THIED Paragraph

Topic Sentence: State the topic/claim of the paragraph

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Historical Context: Give the reader background information about the time and place of the topics

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Introduce Evidence: State the name and author of the source and explain the perspective (point of view), motive (reasons it was written), and bias (opinions of the author) of the source,s if any.

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Evidence: Explaining what the source says about the topic

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Discuss: Analyze the evidence to prove the topic sentence or claim

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Timeline and Death Toll of the September 11, 2001 Attacks

Timeline

7:59 am – American Airlines Flight 11, takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport en route to Los Angeles.

8:14 am – United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston; it is also headed to Los Angeles.

8:19 am – Flight attendants aboard Flight 11 alert ground personnel that the plane has been hijacked; American Airlines notifies the FBI.

8:20 am – American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. The Boeing 757 is headed to Los Angeles with 64 people aboard.

8:40 am – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerts the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) about the hijacking of Flight 11. NEADS scrambles two fighter planes located at Cape Cod's Otis Air National Guard Base to locate and tail Flight 11. This takes 10 minutes.

8:41 am – United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people aboard, takes off from Newark International Airport en route to San Francisco.

8:46 am – American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

8:50 am – White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card alerts President George W. Bush that a plane has hit the World Trade Center; the president is visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.

9:02 am – Port Authority evacuate both towers of the World Trade Center.

9:03 am – Hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 75-85 of the WTC's South Tower.

9:08 am – FAA bans all takeoffs of flights going to New York City or through the city’s airspace.

9:21 am – The Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels in the New York City area.

9:24 am – The FAA notified NEADS of the suspected hijacking of Flight 77 after some passengers and crew aboard are able to alert family members on the ground.

9:37 am – Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

9:42 am – FAA grounds all flights in the United States.

9:59 am – The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

10:07 am – Passengers and crew on Flight 93 try to retake the plane. The hijackers crash the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

10:28 am – The World Trade Center's North Tower collapses.

Death Toll

World Trade Center: 2,830 people. Includes 343 firefighters; 23 New York city police officers; 37 Port Authority police officers; 92 persons on AAL Flight 11; and 65 people on Flight 175.

Pentagon: 125 in building; 64 on AAL Flight 77

Shanksville, Pennsylvania: 44 on UAL Flight 93

Source: http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-timeline

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Excerpts from Osama bin Laden's 'letter to America'

Sunday November 24, 2002, Observer Worldview, Guardian.UK

Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him. While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:

(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?

(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.

a) You attacked us in Palestine...

(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon…

…(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world…

…(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.

(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:

(a) …the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will...The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.

(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands...

(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us….

(f)…Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages or towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, we have the right to kill theirs.

(Q2) As for the second question: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam...

(2) The second thing we call you to do is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.

(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest...

(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest user...

(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms...

(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins...

(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.

(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history...

(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.

Anti-Muslim Incidents since September 11, 2001

Submitted by the Southern Poverty Law Center to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. Senate, March 29, 2011

• Sept. 11, 2001 – Ronkonkoma, New York - Brian Harris, 29, was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly held an Arab American at gunpoint while making anti-Arab threats.

• Sept. 12, 2001 – South Huntington, New York - Adam Lang, 76, was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and a hate crime after he allegedly tried to run down a Pakistani woman with his car.

• Sept. 13, 2001 – Somerset, California - Craig Jennings, 18; Jeffrey Lizotte, 17, and a 16-year-old were charged with a hate crime after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail onto the roof of a convenience store owned by Arab Americans.

• Sept. 12, 2001 – Salt Lake City, Utah - Michael Herrick, a 31-year-old white man, was charged with first-degree felony aggravated arson and a hate crime after allegedly starting a fire at a Pakistani family’s restaurant.

• Sept. 13, 2001 – Chicago, Illinois - Andrew Holden, a 49-year-old white man, was charged with assault, a hate crime and disorderly conduct after allegedly threatening to bomb a food store owned by an Arab American.

• Sept. 13, 2001 – Bloomington, Indiana - A Muslim student was allegedly assaulted and verbally harassed by a white student.

• Sept. 15, 2001 – Mesa, Arizona - Balbir Singh Sodhi, a 49-year-old Sikh and native of India, was fatally shot outside his gas station by Frank Silva Roque, who mistakenly believed Sodhi was Muslim. Roque then allegedly fired shots at a man of Lebanese descent working at another gas station, and at an Afghan family’s residence.

• Sept. 15, 2001 – Dallas, Texas - Waqar Hasan, a 46-year-old Pakistani immigrant, was shot to death in his convenience store. Mark Stroman, who allegedly said he was angry with people of Middle Eastern descent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was charged with Hasan’s murder. Stroman was also charged with the Oct. 4 murder of Vasudev Patel, a 49-year-old native of India, at a gas station convenience store in Mesquite, Texas.

• Sept. 18, 2001 – Fort Worth, Texas - Three middle school students were charged with making a terroristic threat after allegedly threatening and harassing a schoolmate of Indian descent.

• Sept. 19, 2001 – San Francisco, California - Anti-Arab graffiti was spray-painted on an Iraqi-American grocery store in three separate incidents.

• Sept. 29, 2001 – Reedley, California - Abdo Ali Ahmed, a 51-year-old Yemeni man, was shot to death outside his convenience store. Two days earlier a note reading, “We’re going to kill all fucking Arabs,” was left on his car windshield.

• Oct. 16, 2001 – Racine, Wisconsin - Andrew E. Savagae, 40, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yelling at an Indian store owner Savage believed to be of Middle Eastern descent.

• Oct. 18, 2001 – Detroit, Michigan - Douglas Snyder, 46, was charged with five counts of felony ethnic intimidation for allegedly using the Internet to threaten Arab Americans.

• Oct. 21, 2001 – Anaheim, California - Several Asian men shouted ethnic slurs and allegedly assaulted a man of Asian-Indian descent who they thought was Middle Eastern.

• Oct. 21, 2001 – New York, New York - Three men allegedly attacked a Pakistani store owner.

• Oct. 30, 2001 – Elgin, Illinois - Jose Ares-Torres, 27, was charged with committing a felony hate crime and disorderly conduct for allegedly threatening to kill Muslims.

• Oct. 31, 2001 – Grand Forks, North Dakota - Kevin Dvork, 22, was charged with simple assault for allegedly attacking a Saudi Arabian student.

• Nov. 1, 2001 – Prince William, Virginia - Stanley Elburn Smith III, 27, and James M. Terrell, 25, were charged with assault and battery for allegedly assaulting a Pakistani man.

• Nov. 2, 2001 – Seattle, Washington - A 36-year-old man and 2 teenage boys were charged with suspicion of second-degree arson and harassment after allegedly setting a fire at a local mosque.

• Nov. 2, 2001 – Tacoma, Washington - A bomb was detonated outside the home of a family of Middle Eastern descent.

• Nov. 6, 2001 – Madison, Wisconsin - Jeremy A. Giese, 21, was charged with a hate crime, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct for allegedly smashing the window of a bar after seeing two men who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent.

• Nov. 7, 2001 – Tulelake, California - Three white men allegedly fired gunshots while yelling racial slurs at a Latino man they believed was of Arab descent.

• Nov. 12, 2001 – Trenton, Michigan - Rob Moran, 20, was charged with ethnic intimidation for allegedly harassing a woman of Palestinian-Muslim descent.

• Nov. 17, 2001 – Waterbury, Connecticut - Rocks were thrown through windows at a local mosque during a Ramadan prayer service.

• Jan. 7, 2002 – Salt Lake City, Utah - James Herrick, 32, was sentenced to four years in prison for trying to set fire to a Pakistani-American family’s business in September 2001.

• Feb. 19, 2002 – Palermo, New York - Mitchel Trumble, 18, was charged with felony criminal mischief as a hate crime and fourth-degree criminal mischief for allegedly participating in the destruction of a Sikh temple in November.

• Feb. 21, 2002 – Norwalk, California - James Scott Yungkans, 37, was sentenced to a year in jail and placed on three years’ probation for threatening a store clerk of Middle Eastern descent in September.

• March 25, 2002 – Tallahassee, Florida - Charles Franklin, 51, was charged with burglary and criminal mischief after allegedly vandalizing a local mosque because he hated Muslims.

• April 10, 2002 – Oswego, New York - Joshua Centrone, William J. Reeves and Mitcheal W. Trumbull, all 18, and Cassie Hudson, 19, were charged with a hate crime for allegedly burning a Sikh temple in September 2001. Centrone was sentenced in May to three to nine years in prison.

• April 12, 2002 – Madison, Wisconsin - Thomas D. Iverson, 45, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for making a threatening call to a man of Middle Eastern descent in Sept., 2001.

• May 4, 2002 – Alexandria, Virginia - Michael Woolls, 24, was charged with assault, attempted assault motivated by bias against national origin, and destruction of property after allegedly throwing a brick through the car window of a man of Middle Eastern descent.

• May 14, 2002 – New York, New York - William Reeves, 18, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for setting fire to a Sikh temple in November 2001.

• May 22, 2002 – Evansville, Indiana - John Joseph Kirkwood, 28, was sentenced to four years in prison for driving his car into an Islamic center in September.

• May 28, 2002 – Parish, New York - Cassie J. Hudson, 19, was sentenced to three months in prison for vandalizing and setting fire to a Sikh temple in November. Hudson was placed on probation for five years, ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and fined $1,000.

• May 28, 2002 – Kent, Washington - John Bethel, 45, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for assaulting a man of Indian descent after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

• June 8, 2002 – Gainesville, Florida - Robert Rowland, 53, was charged with two hate crimes after allegedly threatening three people of Indian descent while spraying them with bug spray.

• July 7, 2002 – Nassau, New York - John Yang, 25, was charged with second-degree criminal mischief, second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a dangerous weapon for allegedly threatening to shoot two Muslim brothers while yelling racial slurs. Anti-Muslim epithets were also spray-painted on the family’s property.

• July 15, 2002 – Detroit, Michigan - Brent D. Seever, 38, was sentenced to life in prison for killing an Arab-American man after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

• July 23, 2002 – Heber City, Utah - A Muslim-owned hotel was set afire.

• July 30, 2002 – Baltimore, Maryland - Dennis Odell Coe, a 32-year-old white man, was charged with three counts of committing a crime upon a person for ethnic reasons, two counts of second-degree assault and one count each of malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct for allegedly attacking two men of Middle Eastern descent.

• Aug. 6, 2002 – Reno, Nevada - David Nolette, 15, and Scott Cannady, 17, were sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for the baseball beatings of two Muslim men in March 2001. Nolette and Cannady were also ordered to pay $563,000 in restitution to one victim and $850,000 to the other.

• Aug. 8. 2002 – Palos Hills, Illinois - John Stewart, 34, was sentenced to two years of probation and 20 hours of community service for threatening his Syrian neighbors after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

• Aug. 22, 2002 – Seminole, Florida - Dr. Robert Goldstein, 37, was charged with possessing destructive devices and attempting to damage and destroy buildings by means of explosive devices after a police search of his residence turned up 20 homemade explosive devices, two light rockets, a sniper rifle, an assortment of assault rifles and 25,000 rounds of ammunition. Also found was a plan to target Islamic Centers in Florida, with the objective to “Kill all ‘rags’ at this Islamic Education Center.”

• Aug. 27, 2002 – Boston, Massachusetts - Zachary J. Rolnik, 40, was sentenced to two months in prison and fined $5,000 for threatening to kill an Arab-American spokesman and his family.

• Aug. 28, 2002 – Santa Barbara, California - Thomas W. Byrne, 42, was charged with suspicion of making terroristic threats, possessing a handgun and committing a hate crime for allegedly attacking and threatening a man of Iranian descent while yelling racial slurs.

• Aug. 30, 2002 – Palo Alto, California - Sanjay Nair, an 18-year-old Hindu man, allegedly raped a 15-year-old Muslim girl and made derogatory comments about her religion.

• Aug. 31, 2002 – Selden, New York - Richard Bossi, 19, and Matthew Martin, 18, were charged with second-degree aggravated harassment after they allegedly taunted and attacked a Pakistani woman and her 15-year-old son.

• Sept. 14, 2002 – Sterling, Virginia - Swastikas and ethnic slurs were spray-painted on a Muslim community center.

• Sept. 30, 2002 – Boise, Idaho - A mosque was vandalized after receiving threatening phone calls.

• Oct. 4, 2002 – Queens, New York - Two men allegedly attacked a 17-year-old Middle Eastern teenager because of his ethnicity while accusing him of being in the Taliban and blaming him for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

• Nov. 19, 2002 – Boston, Massachusetts - Phea Meas, 24; Jamie Roldan, 23, and another man were charged with a hate crime after allegedly beating a Pakistani convenience store clerk.

• Dec. 2, 2002 – Annapolis, Maryland - Ray C. Bailey, 21; David J. Grobani, 19, and Robert J. Canter, 20, were charged with assault and committing a hate crime after allegedly making ethnic slurs and attacking a cab driver of Middle Eastern descent.

• March 17, 2003 – Boca Raton, Florida - George Aboujawdeh, 46, was sentenced to 1 month in prison after repeatedly setting fire to a sign announcing the new site of an Islamic community Center and mosque.

• March 21, 2003 – Burbank, Illinois – Eric K. Nix, 24, threw fireworks into a Palestinian Muslim family’s van. He was convicted in 2006 of arson, criminal property damage and a hate crime.

• April 22, 2003 – Brooklyn, New York - Max Abrahamowitz, 29, allegedly assaulted a Muslim woman while yelling racial slurs.

• May 12, 2003 – Bensalem, Pennsylvania - Three boys, two white 13-year-olds and a black 12-year-old, allegedly attacked an 8-year-old child of Middle Eastern descent while calling him “you Saddam Hussein helper” and telling him to “go back to Iraq.”

• May 19, 2003 – Tallahassee, Florida - Charles Franklin, 41, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for driving his pickup truck into a mosque while yelling anti-Muslim threats in March 2002.

• June 4, 2003 – San Diego, California - Hundreds of copies of a publication portraying Muslim women as sexual objects and ridiculing Jews, Jesus and Palestinians were distributed at the University of California - San Diego.

• June 22, 2003 – Boston, Massachusetts - Three men were arrested for allegedly hog-tying, beating and stabbing a pizza deliveryman because they mistakenly believed he was Muslim.

• June 23, 2003 – Salem, Oregon - A 12-year-old Israeli Arab boy playing outside his house was allegedly called a terrorist and punched in the face by another 12-year-old.

• July 24, 2003 – College Park, Maryland - A wooden cross was burned at an Islamic school. Two 17-year-old boys were charged with harassment related to religious beliefs and damaging the property of a religious entity.

• Sept. 16, 2003 – Bronx, New York - A 14-year-old teenage boy was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing for allegedly attacking a Muslim girl while yelling racial slurs.

• Sept. 18, 2003 – Tempe, Arizona - A swastika, a thunderbolt-shaped “SS” and other Nazi symbols were spray-painted on a mosque.

• March 6, 2004 – Lubbock, Texas - Anti-Islamic and pro-American slogans were written on an Islamic Center that was also burglarized. Four teenagers were charged with burglary.

• March 9, 2004 – Davis, California - A white man allegedly made a comment about terrorists to a Middle Eastern man at a gas station and later pointed a handgun at the man and made threatening remarks.

• April 6, 2004 – Tampa, Florida - Two women and a man allegedly attacked a Muslim woman, yanking on her headscarf and calling Muslim people violent, reportedly in reaction to the commuter-train bombing in Spain.

• April 19, 2004 – Dover Township, New Jersey - Windows at an Islamic Center were broken, walls were damaged and swastikas and sexually explicit and anti-Semitic statements were scrawled on two doors.

• April 22, 2004 – Denton, Texas - A window and door of an Islamic Society building were shot out.

• May 10, 2004 – Miami, Florida - A Muslim mosque was broken into and ransacked. A glass door was smashed, telephone lines were cut, and an alarm system was destroyed.

• May 11, 2004 – Omaha, Nebraska - A 33-year-old man allegedly left two threatening voice mail messages on an Islamic Center’s answering machine.

• May 12, 2004 – Miami, Florida - Obscenities and a swastika were spray-painted at an Islamic school.

• May 13, 2004 – Miami, Florida - A note reading “Kill them all in the name of Allah” was left in an Islamic Center’s mailbox.

• July 8, 2004 – Edmonds, Washington - A cross was burned in the front lawn of a family of Middle Eastern descent.

• July 24, 2004 – Buffalo, New York - Two women in a car allegedly chased and threatened two teenage sisters while yelling obscenities and making references to the sisters’ Islamic background.

• Aug. 18, 2004 – New York, New York - Brian Lydon, 45, was charged with third-degree assault and harassment for allegedly attacking a man of Middle Eastern descent while yelling, “You are Muslim.”

• Sept. 16, 2004 – Berkeley, California - Three men allegedly used racial slurs and hurled water bottles at eight Muslim students at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Sept. 20, 2004 – El Paso, Texas - Antonio Flores, 57, was charged with arson and weapons charges after he allegedly tossed a makeshift firebomb at children playing outside an Islamic daycare center.

• Aug. 9, 2005 – Arlington, Virginia - Three white men allegedly shouted racial slurs at a pregnant black Muslim woman.

• Oct. 1, 2005 – Coralville, Iowa - Troy Carter Anderson, 24, was charged with a hate crime and assault causing bodily injury for allegedly punching a Middle Eastern woman outside a bar and calling her a derogatory name.

• April 1, 2006 – Waco, Texas - A white man allegedly used anti-Muslim and ethnic slurs and attacked a female Muslim student at Baylor University.

• July 21, 2006 – Naperville, Illinois - An Islamic Center was burglarized.

• July 31, 2006 – Cliffside Park, New Jersey - A woman and her toddler were allegedly assaulted by their neighbor, who yelled racial slurs and screamed, “You Arabs, I’m going to get you back for Sept. 11.” William Brown, 62, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of bias intimidation.

• Oct. 31, 2006 – St. Peters, Missouri - The letters “KKK” and the words “Kill Muslim” were spray-painted on a Pakistani man's garage door.

• Nov. 27, 2006 – Detroit, Michigan - A group of 10 white men assaulted a Muslim man outside his home.

• Jan. 24, 2007 – Newark, New Jersey - A mosque was set afire. The blaze appeared to have begun in coils of rope put on a back deck of the building.

• Feb. 20, 2007 – Ballard, Washington - A white man and a white woman allegedly used racial slurs against a Yemeni deli owner and his Yemeni employee and called them terrorists before assaulting the owner. Brian D. Lappin, 35, and Nichol A. Kirk, 25, were charged with malicious harassment under the state’s hate crime law.

• May 12, 2007 – Little Falls, New Jersey - David Liscio, 32, was charged with harassment, making terroristic threats and bias intimidation after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Latino Muslim woman.

• May 22, 2007 – Lynn Haven, Florida - Thomas E. Plaisted was charged with battery evidencing bias after he allegedly spit on a Muslim child and shoved another at a fast-food restaurant.

• June 23, 2007 – St. Cloud, Minnesota - Phillip Joseph Massa, 33, was charged with obstructing the legal process and fourth-degree gross misdemeanor assault motivated by bias after he allegedly assaulted a man of Muslim descent.

• June 29, 2007 – Nutley, New Jersey - Kerri A. Livesay, 34, was charged with simple assault and a bias crime after allegedly screaming curses and assaulting a teen wearing traditional Muslim garb at a store.

• July 6, 2007 – Sarasota, Florida - Anti-Islamic epithets were spray-painted on a Bosnian family's residence that was then set afire.

• July 13, 2007 – San Antonio, Texas - A Muslim family's vehicles were vandalized with messages telling them to move.

• July 30, 2007 – Shreveport, Louisiana - Russell Price, 22, a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old were charged with spray-painting profanity and drug symbols on an Islamic Association building.

• Aug. 6, 2007 – Glendale, Arizona - A chemical bomb was tossed from a car at a mosque. The bomb landed near two people associated with the Albanian American Islamic Center.

• July 26, 2007 – Corvallis, Oregon - Jesse J. Mason, 24, was arrested after allegedly throwing furniture and smashing a window at a residence of two men he believed were of Middle Eastern descent while yelling, “This is America — Arabs and al-Qaida out of the country.” Mason also allegedly had spit on the two men a few days earlier and made similar remarks in front of a bar.

• Sept. 11, 2007 – Tempe, Arizona - Michael Estes, 32, was charged with suspicion of disorderly conduct after he allegedly cursed at an imam at an Islamic community center and made other negative remarks to him on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

• Sept. 15, 2007 – Matinecock, New York - Iranian-American nail salon owner was allegedly beaten by 2 robbers who called her a “terrorist” and wrote anti-Muslim messages on a mirror in her shop.

• Oct. 6, 2007 – Bakersfield, California - Two men allegedly entered the women's section of a mosque and yelled anti-Middle Eastern slurs such as “terrorists go home.” Later that night, about 10 people allegedly smashed windows and damaged cars at the mosque.

•Oct. 24, 2007 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Kia Reid, 35, a former hotel-catering manager who in October 2006 sent her Arab-American boss an anonymous note threatening her children and referring to 9/11, was sentenced to two years of probation.

• Jan. 14, 2008 – New Hyde Park, New York - A 63-year-old Sikh man was attacked outside his temple, allegedly by a man who yelled profanities and screamed, “Arab, go back to your country.” David Wood, 36, was convicted of second-degree assault as a hate crime, second- and third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment.

• Jan. 22, 2008 – Blaine, Minnesota - Three men used bottles of combustible liquid to set a fire in a convenience store. The word “Arab” was also spray-painted on the building.

• March 11, 2008 – Hayward, California - Manuel Urango was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Alia Ansari, an Afghani-born mother of six. Ansari was killed allegedly because of her Muslim heritage.

• March 26, 2008 – Nashville, Tennessee - Eric Ian Baker, 32, Michael Corey Golden, 23, and Jonathan Edward Stone, 18, were indicted on federal civil rights charges for burning down an Islamic Center on Feb. 9, 2008. Stone and Baker reportedly identified themselves as followers of the white supremacist Christian Identity movement.

• May 22, 2008 – Rochester, Minnesota - Three teens were charged with bias crimes, including gross misdemeanor harassment, after they allegedly yelled racial slurs and spit on a person outside an Islamic Center.

• July 3, 2008 – Seattle, Washington - Edward Campbell, 42, was charged with one count of malicious harassment after he allegedly called a store clerk, whom he believed was Muslim, a terrorist and struck him on the head with a can of beer.

• Sept. 25, 2008 – Joplin, Missouri - A sign at the Islamic Society was set afire.

• Nov. 1, 2008 – Gaithersburg, Maryland - An Islamic Center was hit with 30 paintball blasts.

• Jan. 1, 2009 – Miami, Florida - An Islamic school was sprayed with bullets.

• Jan. 1, 2009 – Oakland, Pennsylvania - An Islamic Center was vandalized.

• June 27, 2009 – Yermo, California - Ali Abdelhadi Mohd, 51, a native of Jordan, was found burned to death in his family's vacant house that had been set afire. Mohd was at the residence to clean anti-Arab and white supremacist graffiti that had been scrawled inside. A mosque on the family’s property also was set afire in 2007.

• July 1, 2009 – Seattle, Washington - Eric Lee Garner, 24, was charged with second-degree assault and malicious harassment for allegedly making anti-Muslim remarks and threatening to cut a woman and her infant.

• Aug. 20, 2009 – Smithtown, New York - Joseph Ballance, 23, was charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly attempting to run over two Muslim women at a gas station and threatening to kill them because of their religion.

• Sept. 8, 2009 – Ann Arbor, Michigan - A 16-year-old Muslim girl of Iraqi heritage was allegedly attacked on a school bus by a group of people who shouted ethnic slurs. Her brother was also allegedly attacked while coming to her defense.

• Sept. 8, 2009 – Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Nicholas T. Proffit, 32, was sentenced to three years in prison for vandalizing an Islamic Center in May.

• Nov. 7, 2009 – Tinley Park, Illinois - Valerie Kenney, 54, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the headscarf of a Muslim woman two days after the Fort Hood shootings.

• Nov. 9, 2009 – Farmingville, New York - A Muslim woman's home was burglarized, vandalized and defaced with graffiti.

• Nov. 22, 2009 – Kinsman, Illinois - Scott Finch and Luke Harty, both 32, were charged with aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man outside a tavern.

• Dec. 3, 2009 – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho - Swastikas and a racial slur were spray-painted on a pickup truck belonging to a Muslim man of Jordanian descent.

• Dec. 8, 2009 – St. Cloud, Minnesota - Anti-Islamic cartoons featuring swastikas were left on utility poles, one of which was outside a store catering to Somali people.

• Jan. 1, 2010 – Costa Mesa, California - A burned and torn copy of the Koran was left in the parking lot of the Islamic Educational Center for the second time in a month.

• Jan. 16, 2010 – Murfreesboro, Tennessee - A sign marking the future site of the city's Islamic Center was spray-painted with the words “not welcome.”

• Feb. 10, 2010 – Nashville, Tennessee - An Islamic Center was defaced with the words “Muslims Go Home” and a crusade-style cross.

• May 10, 2010 – Jacksonville, Florida - A homemade pipe bomb exploded at an Islamic Center.

• June 11, 2010 – Sunnyvale, California - A Muslim man who was holding a copy of the Koran was allegedly attacked by two men who called the victim a terrorist.

• June 23, 2010 – Murfreesboro, Tennessee - A sign marking the future site of an Islamic Center was vandalized for the second time in less than six months.

• June 25, 2010 – Bellevue, Washington - A van parked near a mosque and bearing advertisements about Islam was smeared with what appeared to be dog feces.

• Aug. 6, 2010 – Arlington, Texas - Pornographic graffiti depicting Uncle Sam having sex with Allah was spray-painted in the parking lot of an Islamic Center.

• Aug. 20, 2010 – Madera, California - A brick was thrown at an Islamic Center building.

• Aug. 24, 2010 – Madera, California - Signs reading, "Wake up America, the enemy is here," were left at an Islamic Center.

• Aug. 24, 2010 – New York, New York - Michael Enright, 21, allegedly slashed a taxi driver’s neck and face after Enright discovered the man was Muslim. Enright was charged with attempted murder, assault as a hate crime and possession of a weapon.

• Aug. 25, 2010 – Queens, New York - A drunken man allegedly shouted anti-Muslim slurs and urinated on prayer rugs in a mosque.

• Aug. 28, 2010 – Murfreesboro, Tennessee - A piece of construction equipment was set afire and gasoline was poured over other pieces of equipment at the future site of an Islamic Center.

• Aug. 30, 2010 – Carlton, New York - Five teenagers were arrested for allegedly harassing worshippers and yelling obscenities outside a mosque after Ramadan services.

• Sept. 11, 2010 – Columbus, Ohio - The numbers “9-11” were spray-painted on windows and countertops at a Muslim-owned market. Some cash and a laptop computer were also stolen and several display cases were vandalized.

• Sept. 20, 2010 – Lafayette, Louisiana - A car parked at an Islamic community center was set afire.

• Sept. 22, 2010 – Fairview Heights, Illinois - Roman Otto Conway, 59, was arrested after a seven-hour standoff with law enforcement officers who had come to his residence to investigate telephone threats he allegedly made against the Muslim community and President Obama. Conway also allegedly posted on Facebook that he planned to burn a copy of the Koran.

• Oct. 4, 2010 – Manhattan, New York - The wife of the imam of the Muslim community center proposed to be built near the spot of the 9/11 terror attacks said she and her husband had received death threats over an extended period of time.

• Oct. 10, 2010 – Staten Island, New York - Three 14-year-old Latino youths and one 15-year-old black youth were charged with assault and aggravated harassment after they allegedly taunted a fellow classmate for his Muslim faith and repeatedly assaulted him from October 2009 to June 2010.

• Oct. 13, 2010 – New York, New York - A Muslim woman and her 4-year-old son were allegedly attacked by a man who called her “a terrorist,” punched her in the face and tried to hit her son.

• Oct. 16, 2010 – Burien, Washington - Jennifer Leigh Jennings, 37, was charged with a hate crime after she allegedly kicked one Muslim woman and slammed a car door on another at a gas station while yelling anti-Muslim remarks.

• Oct. 26, 2010 – Oxford, North Carolina - A white man was charged with ethnic intimidation after he allegedly shouted slurs and spit on a black woman when he discovered she was Muslim.

• Nov. 28, 2010 – Portland, Oregon – An inmate at the county jail allegedly used anti-Muslim slurs and assaulted another inmate.

• Nov. 29, 2010 – Sacramento, California - A Muslim cab driver was allegedly attacked by a passenger who allegedly robbed him while making references to Osama Bin Laden.

• Dec. 14, 2010 – Cincinnati, Ohio - An E-mail was sent to the Islamic Association of Cincinnati that

stated, “You should know that you are not wanted in Cincinnati ... We don't want you here. Mohammad is a joke. Go back to your desert. Beware. We may just declare jihad on you.”

• Dec. 22, 2010 – Twin Falls, Idaho - A Muslim woman shopping with her two children was allegedly threatened by a man who claimed he had killed Muslims and planned to kill more and that he had a concealed weapon. The man was charged with felony malicious harassment.

• Feb. 4, 2011 – St. Petersburg, Florida - Bradley Kent Strott, 52, allegedly stabbed a 57-year-old Muslim man during a conversation at a bar after the man told Strott he was a Muslim. Strott, who allegedly said, “Muslims are the root of the problem” during the attack, was charged with hate crime aggravated battery.

• Feb. 13, 2011 – Yorba Linda, California - A group of 100 protesters taunt Muslims, including small children, entering a fundraising event with statements such as “Muhammad was a child molester!,” “Go back home! Terrorists!,” and “Why not go have sex with a 9-year-old?” A city councilwoman had earlier told the protesters that she “knew quite a few Marines who will be very happy to help these terrorists to an early meeting in paradise.”