Packed with statistics and facts, as well as personal stories of those who live in a cloud of fear, Silent Victims is a powerful book that describes the manifestation of hate of these ethnic groups sometimes endure while trying to achieve the American dream

CHICAGO, Illinois, USA (8/8/05) / Since the Sept. 11 attacks, there has been an unprecedented interest in the learning about Arab and Muslim culture in an effort to heal the wounds of that historic day. Some, however, engage in the backlash against Arab-Americans. In his new book, Silent Victims: The Plight of Arab & Muslim Americans in Post 9/11 America, Aladdin Elaasar presents an eye-opening, comprehensive book about the unjustified hate that has been direct toward innocent citizens.

After the terrorist strikes, millions of Arab-and Muslim Americans became targets for random hate and violence. They became the latest ethnic group to be singled out in an American time of crisis. Irish immigrants in the 1850s, Germans during World War I, Japanese citizens in World War II and people of Eastern European decent during the Cold War were all treated unfairly because of world events, says Elaasar. America’s legacy of nativeism, the intense opposition to an internal minority because of its foreign connections, reared its head again and directed its hate toward those perceived to be “un-American