Service in a Time of Suspicion
ISBN: 9781609385361
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Iowa Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: HISTORY / Military / Veterans.; September 11 Terrorist Attacks 2001; Muslim soldiers;

On September 11, 2001, nineteen members of the Islamist extremist organization al-Qaeda launched four coordinated attacks on the United States, killing 2,977 people. These events and the government's subsequent "War on Terror" refueled long-standing negative stereotypes about Muslims and Islam among many Americans. And yet thousands of practicing Muslims continued to serve or chose to enlist in the U.S. military during these years.

In Service in a Time of Suspicion , fifteen such service members talk about what it means to be Muslim, American, and a uniformed member of the armed services in the twenty-first century. These honest accounts remind us of our shared humanity.

Michelle Sandhoff is an assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the Veterans' Reintegration Research Cluster. She lives in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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