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A single thought went through the minds of many Iowa Muslims as they learned that U.S. forces had killed a man they say represented a perversion of their religion: We can finally take our religion back.
Several leading Iowa Muslims said that the four airplanes that flew into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania weren't the only things hijacked on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. So was their religion.
"It was the antithesis of my faith," said Miriam Amer of Cedar Rapids, executive director of the Iowa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "They never represented Islam or Muslims."