Our leadership kept the nation in a heightened state of terror. The image of the brown turbaned “Muslim terrorist” seared into Americans on 9/11 was reinforced over and over again by a government that arrested, detained, deported, registered, and surveilled Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and immigrants. Sher Singh was just the first of thousands of innocent people to endure this treatment. After his release, federal officials rounded up, detained, and interrogated more than twelve hundred Muslim and Arab men in the course of two months.
