Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Generally around this year, I receive a number of requests for financial support from charitable organizations, civil rights groups, and the educational institutions I attended. Interestingly, the New York Times reported yesterday that New York University (N.Y.U.), in the words of George Washington professor law Orin Kerr, is "data mining for donors":

The general climate that Muslims encounter in post-9/11 America is affected by several different types of actors, including the government, the media, and ordinary citizens. For example, government treatment of Muslims after 9/11 arguably legitimizes private violence, such as hate crimes, against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. See, Muneer Ahmad "A Rage Shared by Law: Post-September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion," 92 CAL. L. REV. 1259 (Oct. 2004). In this post, I'd like to briefly discuss the effect that the media may have on how Muslim-Americans are viewed in, and on the extent to which Muslim-Americans are regarded as fully belonging to, contemporary American society.

This article from this month's Sydney Morning Herald describes the means by which terrorists have used the Internet to communciate and avoid detection, as well as the difficulties that governments face in identifying terrorist activity on the Internet:

As my biography notes, I am presently researching the alleged chilling effect of post-9/11 government security measures on the use of technology, principally the Internet, by Muslim-Americans. I intend to use my blog as a means to discuss relevant reports and news articles, and to update interested individuals on my research progress and results.

That said, I'd like to bring your attention to two interesting items that I came across today. The first is an article on a Washington Post-ABC News poll released yesterday. According to the article: