Identity + Bias
This major 2001 event led to a rise in anti-Muslim bias and sentiment in the U.S
What is the 9/11 attacks?
The first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her work in advocating for girl's education and women's rights.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This country has the most Muslims.
What is Indonesia?
This was the year NYC elected its first Muslim mayor.
What is 2026?
This term refers to the fear, prejudice, or hatred towards Islam and Muslims and those racialized as Muslim, often leading to discrimination, hostility, and violence.
What is Islamophobia?
This Muslim American revolutionary and civil rights activist fought for human rights as a member of the Nation of Islam, and later as a Sunni Muslim after he performed hajj.
Who is Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz)?
This U.S. state has the largest Muslim population.
What is New York?
This 2017 executive order restricted travel from several Muslim-majority countries.
What is the Muslim Ban?
What group of Americans make up just 1-2% of the American Muslim population?
Native Americans / Indigenous Americans
This great African American boxer (formerly known as Cassius Clay before converted to Islam) was also a civil rights activist and famously protested his involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This oldest surviving mosque in NYC, known as the Powers Street Mosque, is in this borough.
What is Brooklyn?
In 2015, a teen named Ahmed Mohamed was arrested and suspended for bringing this homemade item to his school.
What is a clock?
This percentage of Muslim women in the U.S. are immigrants.
What is about 58%?
This Congresswoman is the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress.
Who is Rashida Tlaib?
This large detention center and U.S. military prison that was opened to hold many suspects of terrorism and "illegal enemy combatants" (many Muslim) since 2002 is located here.
Guantanamo Bay
This U.S. president was the earliest president to have a copy of the Quran.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
About this percent of Americans practice Islam, according to Pew Research Center.
What is about 2%?
This Muslim American athlete was the first to win an Olympic Gold medal wearing a hijab.
Ibtihaj Muhammad
What great West African Muslim empire launched an expedition of 2,000 ships into the Atlantic around the 14th century, before Columbus?
What is Mali?
In 1992, the University Muslim Medical Association at UCLA founded this community initiative.
What is a free health care clinic?